I can’t say that we feasted on anything Irish, but we did start our day with green pancakes.  Nothing spectacular here… just used the pancake recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking (my favorite!) and added a few drops of green. I tried at first to use my natural food coloring (made from concentrated vegetable dyes), but it really didn’t work too well. I think I may invest in the paste colors and see if those work better than the liquid.

In addition to being St. Patrick’s Day, it was also Tuesday Party for us.  We had it at our house this time and I made the very Irish dish of falafel.  At least the falafel balls were green– that’s somewhat festive, I guess.

My Dad’s lemon and grapefruit trees are exploding with fruit and I brought home about 70 pounds of citrus from this passed weekend’s visit, so I made some strawberry lemonade.  I found it to be a little too sweet at first, but added in a little more lemon juice and it was tasty.  I used frozen strawberries in place of fresh and plain water in place of sparkling.  Very good with a little tequila!

And for dessert, I made a German Apple Cake (from The Joy of Vegan Baking).  It was really, really good.