{Recipe} Irish Soda Bread *UPDATED*

*This post was originally posted in April 2015. I'm updating it to include the recipe and more photos.*

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I made Irish Soda Bread for our Irish Night celebration.

My go-to recipe is one for Irish Soda Bread Muffins but this year I wanted to try something different.

I found this recipe and thought it looked like it would be a good one.

 My only tweaks to the recipe were 1) I used skim milk instead of whole and 2) I didn't have wheat bran so I used oatmeal that I processed in my Vitamix.

 The bread has no added sugar (or any sweeteners) but it does get a bit of sweetness from the raisins.  The caraway seeds give it a slight nutty crunch with that hint of rye bread. I love caraway seeds!

It baked up beautifully and was delicious. I will definitely be making this one again!

*Edited to add recipe*

From Martha Stewart

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cups whole milk (any kind of milk is fine)

1/3 cup apple cider vinegar (can sub lemon juice)

3 cups all purpose flour, plus more for dusting

2- 2 1/2 tsp coarse salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 ounces (4 TBS) cold butter, cut into small pieces

1 cup unprocessed wheat bran (blend oats or use ground flax seed as subs)

1/4 cup caraway seeds

1 cup raisins (I like to use golden)

Salted Irish Butter for serving (optional)

To make:

• Preheat oven to 350ºF
• Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
• Add vinegar to milk and set aside for 5 minutes until thickened

• Whisk together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda in large bowl
• Cut in butter with pastry cutter or two knives until it resembles course mea

• Add bran( or oatmeal), seeds and raisins (I added some dried cranberries because I didn't have enough raisins. I also used half oat flour/half ground flax seed in place of the bran). Stir to combine

• Add milk to flour mixture and stir until dough holds together and is still sticky

• Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and shape into a round dome shape, about 7 inches in diameter
• Transfer to prepared sheet and dust lightly with flour
• Cut an X in the top about 3/4" deep

• Bake, rotating half way through until golden brown (about 1 hour and 10 minutes) and testing pick comes out clean from center

(Mine got a little extra brown this time and only baked about 50 minutes. All ovens are different!)

 

• Let cool on wire rack

• Serve with softened Irish butter!  We still love it!

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St Patrick's Day Parade 2025

 You may remember last year we went to this St. Patrick's Day Parade but we wanted to try another town's parade this year.  So many to pick from!

It was a really cold and windy day so we wore some layers.

My mostly thrifted outfit from this post.

We didn't know what to expect in terms of crowds and where to stand so we drove and parked as close as we could get to the route.  We found a good spot near a favorite coffee shop.

We could hear the parade coming (we were near the end of the route) so we came out with our coffees.

At least it was sunny!

There were so many bag pipers and fife and drum bands. 

I was impressed!

We had a good time but of course we were freezing and couldn't wait to warm up at an Irish pub for some lunch.

Taking it way back to our daughter dancing in the Philadelphia St. Patrick's Day Parade here!

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Happenings Lately-March

Hey, I'm still here! Here's some of what I was up to last month.

We're loving our new hometown and daily walks to the beach.

I thought this was a suspicious grouping of shells and I left them alone.

I have been obsessed with finding sea glass. This was a particularly good day for it!

We went to a local St. Patrick's Day Parade and had great seats right on the parade route. Green beer was a must!

I tried Andrea via Julie's 3 Ingredient Egg Bake. I used more egg whites in mine because I didn't have enough eggs. It still turned out well, it just needed longer to cook. It doesn't look pretty but it was tasty!

We saw another bald eagle on one of our walks!!

We celebrated a soon to be mom in our family at a sweet baby shower.

The girls were home for less than 24 hours for the shower but we managed a quick Easter with them. It was fun to make baskets for them and all of the kitties.

We took them out for coffee and to the beach for a nice morning walk.

We had brunch with them before driving them back to NYC.

We got to look at an apartment with City Girl #2 (she got it!) while we were there and I tried this Turkish salep drink made from orchid-based flour. Very interesting!

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A Different Kind of St. Patrick's Day

This year we had a different kind of St. Patrick's Day.  

 In past years we've hosted Irish Nights and we were thinking of hosting one this year but obviously that couldn't happen. 

Irish Night 2013

Irish Night 2014

Irish Night 2015

 I still made Shepherd's Pie (but no green beer!).

Mr. Click tried his hand at Irish Soda Bread and he did a great job!  We had College Girl safely home from Boston and we were so thankful for that.

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Four On Friday

Happy Friday! Here's what I've been....

1)Listening to...

I love this soundtrack and having Spotify to listen to it whenever I want.   I'm excited about the live version coming to NBC on Easter.

I've also been listening to the new 21 day meditation series from Oprah and Deepak Chopra.  Whenever they offer the free sessions, I participate.  I'm pretty sure you can still sign up for it if you're interested.

2)Dreaming about....

 Spring and crocuses.

But 24 hours later it looked like this. So ready for Spring!

3) Making....

 We didn't host Irish Night this year but I still made shepherd's pie and

Irish soda bread.  Here's a recipe I've used in the past for the bread. I just realized I don't have a recipe for shepherd's pie on the blog. I will have to post one!

4)Decorating....

I put up a few Easter decorations (and made a fire during our snow day).

Here's to a great weekend!

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{Entertaining} Irish Night 2017

Another Irish Night on the books and it was a great one.   It was a small gathering this year which was just right.

 I like to post about it so I'll remember what we served and any other details that made it special.  This recipe for Irish Soda Bread has been the one I've made for the past few years and I haven't found one that I like better.

It's always nice to have fresh flowers.

 Getting my Irish on!

 I try to keep the menu simple with Irish food and/or green food.  Green grapes, Dubliner Irish cheddar infused with Irish whiskey and my cucumber shamrock.

 It was chilly enough to have a fire and up the cozy factor.

 I'm so happy I remembered to snap some food photos (for once!).

{Menu-What I made}

Shepherd's Pie (one turkey/one veggie)

Kale Caesar Salad

Cauliflower Colcannon

Irish Soda Bread

Irish Potatoes

Our guests brought lots of goodies too! 

{Delicious Additions}

Colcannon

Raspberry Cheese Plate

Hoagie Dip

Broccoli Rabe

Goat Cheese with plum preserves

I'm so glad our tradition continues!

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