Tuesday

Irish beef hand pies (recipe in the comments)
Peas with thyme

Hot cocoa
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So this is the long-awaited end to our St. Patrick's Day season - a new recipe. I saw this before St. Patrick's and filed it away, thinking it sounded just like us. Sadly the end product wasn't as impressive as we hoped. The actual problem was that it was a bit too much like the stereotype of Irish cooking: bland. We tried to jazz it up a bit after I made the filling, but it still ended up a bit boring. Especially given that this was a pretty long and involved recipe, I think we're disinclined to reproduce it. However, it was not so tragic that I'm unwilling to post the recipe. I have annotated it with our "jazzed" version.

Prep Notes
Difficulty: Moderate
Chopping: Cabbage, potato
Time: 35 minutes to prep, 1 hour or so to cool, 15 more minutes prep, 10-15 minutes to bake
Make ahead: Yes, in fact the recipe has instructions for freezing the pies

Reaction
J: "Not worth the trouble."
M: "Only ok."