Cooking or Cancun?
Spring break! WOO HOO!!! Cancun, here I … Oh wait! I’m not 22 anymore! Instead I stayed home and did some cooking. I’ve never been a fan of breaks so I thought this week was worthy of a journal entry. My favorite holiday is St. Patrick’s Day. My mom’s maiden name is McGinnis so I am an Irish girl. … And I am damn proud of it. It’s where I get a lot of my stubbornness. I am normally not a beer drinker but I make one exception each year for St. Patrick’s Day and enjoy a Guinness. This year I had some fun in the kitchen. Last semester, in Chef Andy’s Menu Planning class, I wrote an Irish menu and just had to try some of the courses. I’m thinking I could be on to something for International Cuisine too. The menu for St. Patrick’s Day consisted of: Whiskey-glazed corned beef, roasted root vegetable soup, reuben rolls, black-n-tan mac & cheese & Irish car bomb cake. The whiskey-glazed corned beef intrigued me. I don’t love corned beef in general but I figured I would gi...