Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St. Patricks Day....The girls were off to school in their green NY Yankee t-shirts and green braided strand of fake hair....looking so cute. Kasey refused to wear the button that say's Kiss Me I'm Irish. Erin on the other hand turned her's on the blinking mode!!
Yesterday we had our usual St. Patricks dinner...Corned Beef and Cabbage. I'm working tonight otherwise it would have been tonight. Kevin's Dad was here over the weekend and left this morning...I wonder if he's having it again tonight for dinner!
One thing that most people are not lucky enough to have is Homemade Irish Soda Bread with their meal. Not from Publix....homemade. In our family its a tradition, my grandmother used to make it, my mom makes it, my sister-in-law makes it. I do not make it.
Such a tradition that my mother made it and drove it over to Daytona to give it to my Grandfather yesterday. I know my grandmother is smiling down on them as my mom and Pete pulled in to surprise my grandfather. Last year, I think, she Fed Ex'd it to him.
My Grandmother used to work in a resturant on Long Island called Necroto's...I could be spelling it wrong. Anyway, it was an Italian place...But on St Pat's day it was Irish. She MADE ALL THE BREAD for the resturant that day. People came there for it. It was her thing.
But cooking was her thing in general....My grandmother had some sort of a spat with her boss one year and refused to make the bread! The story is still told how enraged the customers were that they didn't have Blanche's Irish Soda Bread.
One of these days I will learn how to make it....and hope by that time the girls will appreciate it. Right now it's just a funny looking bread with seeds and raisins in it. Not too appealing to them!
I was going to take a picture of it - but it's been wrapped and re-wrapped in wax paper and tin foil...it just doesn't look pretty. BUT tastes so yummy!