Another Potato Recipe !

[Tallpines]

~~~~ Colcannon ~~~~

Sounds interesting….

Its an Irish dish made with potatoes (mashed), bacon, cabbage, onions, garlic ….
With St. Patrick’s Day approaching I will be giving this dish a try.

I was going to post a link to the recipe but there are several versions … so if you are interested, you can do a Google search.

Apparently it’s next to impossible to make a mistake with Colcannon.

[michigander]

taters and cabbage are at the top of my food pyramid but the bacon would put it over the top, just has to be good

[Maura]

There's a song about "the colcannon our mothers used to make."

I think I'll make some without the bacon next time I have potatoes.

My Irish brother in law used to make "patty" for big family dishes. It's mashed potatoes with fried onions.

[Cabin Fever]

Along the same lines (potatoes and cabbage), we love a meal of toasted potato & onion perogies with sauerkraut.

[solargeek]

Tallpines, I used to be part of a Gourmet Dinner club where 4-6 couples chose a theme (host's choice) and then host got dibs on what ever parts they wanted to make and offered the other parts (appetizers/starting soup, vegetables, rice, potatoes or pastas depending on the theme, desserts and ALCOHOL!) to the rest of us. My dear friend and excellent cook picked IRISH and chose the main dish plus Colcannon. She followed an authentic Irish recipe.

All of us agreed, it was the most 'bland' meal we have ever had. 5 years of doing the events quarterly.
There was lamb, corned beef (which was excellent), colcannon, boiled potatoes, breads, and on.
No great spices, very simple fare.

Then my DD#1 got onto colcannon. She insisted her recipe was the best. Lots of bacon, onions and garlic. So she made it and again, to me, slightly watery and bland. The cabbage blandness with the potato blandness seems to overwhelm the overall dish.


I like my cabbage as thickly cut "steaks", with EVOO, spices and roasted at 400F till slightly soft and blackened.
I like my potatoes the same way and roasted (or fried in cast ironpan ) till crispy outside, buttery soft on inside.

DH's family celebrates the be-all end-all St. Pat's day every year. I have been part of it for 42 years but do not cook as we have always lived too far to really do that.
Usually 20-30 family members. My MIL's boiled corn beef with all the trimmings are wonderful but even she does not make colcannon due to blandness.

Interested to see what you think.

[bluemingidiot]

Feb 23, 2023 16:44:58 GMT Maura said:

There's a song about "the colcannon our mothers used to make."

I think I'll make some without the bacon next time I have potatoes.

My Irish brother in law used to make "patty" for big family dishes. It's mashed potatoes with fried onions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQbksGz67U

"Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream?

With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream.

Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake

Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?"

'Pickled cream' is not in my repertoire.