Catch Up Part 1: Corner Table, St. Patrick's Day

I've been away for a while.  I'm catching up in these next couple of posts.  Enjoy!

Last Wednesday I went to Corner Table with  about 40 other food bloggers.  We not only ate amazing food, we also got to cook it!  Big thanks to Chef Scott, Dan for turning over the kitchen to a bunch of foodies and to Gordon the bartender who kept me in Cava all night.

On St. Patrick's Day, I cooked up some of the sausage I got at Corner Table.  Inspired by Kate,  who did this in the Corner Table kitchen, I also cooked up some cabbage, apples and onions.  I served this with a half a baked potato for dinner.  For dessert we had Sister Mary's Irish Soda Bread - on top of which I sprinkled turbinado sugar  before baking.  I served it with the Chocolate Ice Cream my son insisted we also make.  He's three. What am I gonna say, no?  We used Thomas Keller's recipe and will never use another.  SO GOOD.  (Seriously, buy that book.)  

I drank Snakebites.  Guinness and Woodchuck Granny Smith Cider.  Yum.

This year's pour was much better than last year's.

Beer. Bread. More Later.

I've been away.  No.  Not just away.  I've been to New York.  For something pretty cool.  And I ate a lot of food (especially considering I was there for 40 hours.  More on that soon.  In the meantime, here's something I made and polished off prior to leaving:

If you ever go to a Tastefully Simple party, buy the beer bread mix in bulk.  It's awesome.  

Then go to Trader Joe's and buy at least one six pack of Kennebunkport Blueberry Wheat Ale.

You know what to do next.

YUM!