Who's thirsty? They call her "beer maiden german lovely lady" St. Paddy's Day is around the corner. I am thinking some good beer and corned beef and cabbage are in order. It's looking like weekend parading plans are getting rained out. I even bought tickets for a goddamn party bus. I would have caught so many cabbages....maybe I'll just go get hammered in a poncho. Focus: St Paddy's Day. Go to beer?
They? Focus: Cold. Not beer, but I can remember in college we used to make bullfrogs on St Patrick's day. Too much green food coloring always made for an interesting next day.
Am I the only one here who forgot it was St. Patrick's day and had to wait half an hour in line at the liquor store today? I overheard a college kid say, "I don't really like Johnnie Walker, but I figured I should get something Irish."
@Clutch. That's funny. I grabbed a mixed case of Harp and Guinness on Tuesday. I thought that I was well ahead of the demand curve, but still had a pint vodka buying pugilist with the wrong amount of cash gumming up the line. It happens.
Fuck this day right in the ass with something horrifying. Work sucked. Once I got home I had a new Blu Ray I was looking forward to watching. I inserted it into my Play Station and it whirred. And whirred. And fucking whirred. Then it informed me I had to upgrade my encryption code to play the disk. Fuck you. My PS isn't hooked up to the internet. So I had to go online and buy another fucking blu ray player. I'm starting to understand what set Ted Kaczynski off.
UMBC just beat Virginia in the south bracket opening round. This is the first time ever that a number 16 seed beat the number 1 seed in the history of either the men's or women's basketball tournament. My congratulations to the team and watching the game unfold turned my shitty day into one much less so. Now I think I might make the wife or kids fetch me a beer.
0 perfect brackets left in ESPN tournament challenge. That's never happened this early, either. Crazy.
Goddammit. Somebody help a brother out. The Google search results on my phone sucks balls. Everything is fucking sponsored content and I can't get the same stuff as my desktop. Usually I can work around it. Last night, after Virginia lost to UMBC, ESPN showed a hilarious image of Thomas Jefferson dropping a toaster in the bathtub he's sitting in. Anybody want to find that and post it here?
In about an hour we’ll have 30 people here, feasting on Shepherds pie with beef, shepherds pie with lamb, shepherds pie with both beef and lamb, Irish stew with beef, and Irish stew with lamb. Corned beef and cabbage is for amateurs.
Happy Irish Christmas, all! I made Irish stew, because parsnips are legit tasty. Drinking half and halfs, ought to be a nice evening.
Traditional Shepherds pie is made with left over lamb from the Sunday roast mixed with gravy and covered with mashed potato. Not sure what sort of Shepherds that you have in USA but the usual run of Shepherd looked after sheep not cows. If they did then all of those old cowboy movies would have been called Shepherds movies and John Wayne would have had a whole other career.
I’ve never thought about that. Here in the US, or at least the northeast, it’s hard to find shepherds pie that is made with anything but beef. We’re the unusual ones using lamb, but it’s so much better. In other news, Jameson. And beer.
I generally make my shepherd's pie with ground lamb, ground pork, and ground beef. I slowly brown it with a couple of Guiness so that it caramelizes the meat... it goes almost black. Fucking tasty.
Beef in the pie under the potato is what we'd call cottage pie. Or just plain potato pie. Probably just a regional thing but there can't be to many shepherds rounding up cows. There'd have to be a demarcation dispute