St. Patrick's Day Recipes: Easy Dips, Corned Beef Cabbage, Potatoes, Green Drinks and More

The key to fun and festive St. Patrick's Day feast is to have lots of tasty food with lots of green color. You can accomplish this with some ready made green treats such as serving up lime sherbet or sorbet sprinkled with green sugar. Other cold green St. Patrick's Day treats could include Pistachio ice cream, Mint chocolate chip ice cream, green koolaid or limeade, or any cake with green food coloring added to perk up the frosting. Use limes in your St. Patrick's Day Recipes as garnishes. Use mint leaves and organic green lettuces in your St. Patrick's Day recipes as plate garnishes also.

Think green green green for St. Patrick's Day recipes! Perhaps serve a platter of sliced kiwi with little dabs of whipped cream. Honey dew melon drizzled with Crème de menthe liqueur. Key Lime Pie certainly has hints of green! Instead of fresh squeezed lemonade make your St. Patrick's Day menu include freshly squeezed lime aid. From green celery sticks to green napkins to green frilly cocktail forks, to parsely, the more green the more St Patricks Day spirit will abound in your St Patricks Day appetizers and foods. Below are 3 recipes for a St Patricks Day Artichoke Spinach dip searved with Irish soda bread. The Irish soda bread will be readily available at your grocer's bakery department the days leading up to St Patricks Day. Another recipe for a fun green St Patricks Day drink, limeaid! And of course the most important of all is the corned beef and cabbage and potatoes, traditional St Patricks Day recipe fare--- however this has a great twist--- forget babysitting the stove, do it all in a roasting bag for less mess and a super succulent perfect meal!

Irish Soda Bread Spinach Artichoke Dip

This hot dip recipe works well with Irish soda bread. Here's how you make it:

1 (8 ounces) package of cream cheese, softened

1 package ( 10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed, drained

1 jar (7.5 ounces) marinated artichoke hearts, drained, chopped

1 cup Mozzarella Cheese, shredded

1/3 cup Parmesan Cheese, grated

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