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Green is the color of spring and of St. Patrick’s Day. March 17 is the day St. Patrick is honored. If you’re considering throwing a party, here are some great recipe ideas for throwing a green and fun St. Patrick’s Day party your friends won’t soon forget. These recipes are great for a fun dinner idea in your home with your family, too!

Planning the menu: Traditional foods eaten during St. Patrick’s Day include Irish stew, Irish soda bread, mashed potatoes with garlic or fried potatoes. You can also serve non-traditional green foods such as cupcakes frosted with green cream cheese frosting, mint chocolate chip ice cream, or guacamole and chips. Green jello with fruit is another option if you’re trying to find green foods to serve.

Consider making green beer if you and your guests enjoy the beverage. You might expect to drink Guinness during St. Patrick’s Day but it’s not an easy beer to make green. If your guests don’t drink alcohol, you might want to serve green lemonade made with food coloring instead. You could also make green punch using ginger ale and lime sherbet.

Following are other St Patrick recipe ideas:

1. Leprechaun Cheese and Onion Dip
2. Ladd's Corned Beef Puffs
3. Luck of the Irish Kettle Soup
4. Easy Irish Coddle
5. End of the Rainbow Golden Soup
6. Irish Brew Potato Soup
7. Tad of Green Irish Salad
8. Irish Jig Salad
9. Baked Irish Apple Cabbage
10. Devilish St. Patrick Eggs
11. Cheesy Ale Bread
12. Ireland's Sweet Milk Bread
13. Irish Gold Soda Bread
14. Potato Bread from the Stove
15. Easy Soda Raisin Muffins
16. St. Paddy's Leg of Lamb
17. Shenanigan's Irish Stew
18. Irish River Poached Salmon
19. Irish Tradition Pie
20. Traditional Irish Slow Cooker Meal
21. A Tad of Irish Melt
22. Lucky Irish Potato Mash
23. Bit O' the Irish Parsnips
24. Emerald Isle Cheese Cabbage
25. Pot O' Gold Colcannon
26. Shamrock Skillet Slaw
27. Home Made Irish Slaw
28. Irish Eyes are Smiling Red Potatoes
29. Celtic Broasted Potatoes
30. Dublin Chocolate Mint Milk
31. O'Casey Punch
32. Baileys Coffee Express
33. Frothy Irish Coffee Cooler
34. Lucky Day Cinnamon Scones
35. St. Patrick's Irish Whisky Balls
36. Erin Go Bragh Pie
37. Green Clover Pie
38. Ireland's Pudding Cake
39. Lucky Cookie Pops
40. Frosty Chocolate Cookie Shamrocks
41. Leprechaun Nibblers

Create a little piece of the Ireland in your home. Play Celtic music in the background. Gold and green candles can help add to the ambiance, or you can string green Christmas lights around the room to give everything an Irish glow. St. Patrick’s Day comes but once a year. If you’re proud of your Irish heritage, why not use these recipes to make a fabulous meal for a St. Patrick’s Day dinner party.