To Be Sure, It's a St Patrick's Week Menu!

I think that instead of lasting one day, birthdays should last a whole week, or even a month. So although St Patrick's Day is really just one day, I am calling this week "St Patrick's Week". Green is, after all, my favourite colour.

Here is our menu for this week. Although it's St Patrick's Week we aren't eating Irish food every day -- unless having potatoes three times (including the cobbler topping) counts. Indeed, I don't think Irish people eat any differently from anybody else in the English speaking world these days. (They didn't when I was there, anyway.)

This menu is created from the food referred to in Shopping With a Calculator, Part One, and Shopping With a Calculator, Part Two.
Here in the Southern Hemisphere it's early autumn; the very best time of year for sourcing fresh, delicious produce. Two of the desserts involve peaches because we have a laden peach tree in our backyard that is too good to be wasted.
Dinners

pumpkin souphome-made bread rollspeach sponge pudding***marinated BBQ'd chickensaladsauteed potatoesfresh fruit***chicken cobbler (using onions instead of leeks)peasfresh peach and ginger crumble***15th birthday celebrationspaghetti bolognaisesaladhomemade sponge cake with chocolate icing filled with whipped cream (he was very specific!)***St Patrick's Daycorned beef pot roast potatoes, carrots, peassoda breadfresh fruit
Irish coffee (for the adults)*** macaroni cheese with hamgrilled tomatoesgreen salad


Although it's Tuesday, this is my post for Menu Plan Monday over at http://www.orgjunkie.com/.