Eating Green For St. Patrick's Day
Vegetarian and green options for a traditional Irish dish.
Are you ready for St. Patrick's Day? Local supermarkets are geared up for today, March 17, a day where everyone is Irish. Green bagels, cookies and cakes as well as Irish soda bread are stocked in full at the bakeries. However, sweets are not what are most craved on this green holiday. Corned beef and cabbage is one of the most popular and most craved dishes to eat in celebration of Ireland's most beloved saint. While corned beef and cabbage is extremely delicious, most restaurants serve up a rather unhealthy version of this dish. However, with a few tweaks to the recipe, corned beef and cabbage can be made right at home and healthy as well. It should be noted that the cabbage part of the meal is very healthy for you, for it's rich in …