|
|
|
Colcannon
Colcannon is a traditional dish at Samhain in parts of Ireland. The following recipe is from Marianne Mays in County Wicklow, Ireland. It can be found on page 180 of the May 1996 issue of Bon Appetit Magazine, which is a collector's edition dedicated to Irish Fare. A different version of this recipe uses leeks instead of onions, and cream instead of milk.
8 Servings
1 cup milk
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
1 small carrot, peeled, diced
1 large bay leaf
1 large onion, chopped
1 large bunch kale, rinsed & coarsely chopped
4 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1 inch pieces
Combine milk, two tablespoons butter, carrot and bay leaf in medium saucepan; bring to simmer. Remove from heat, let steep while preparing kale and potatoes.
Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large Dutch oven over meduim heat. Add onion, saute until light brown, about 8 minutes. Add kale; cover and cook until tender, stirring often, about 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook potatoes in large pot of boiling, salted water until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain well. Return to same pot, mash with hand masher.
Add kale mixture to potatoes, strain in enough milk to produce moist, fluffy, potatoes. Season with salt and pepper.
Melt 5 tablespoons butter in small saucepan. Mound potatoes in large bowl. Using a spoon, make well in top of potatoes. Pour butter into well. Serve hot.
There it is from Bon Appetit! What you could go on to do from here is take various small trinkets, say a penny, a ring, a bootie from a monopoly set, wrap them in foil, and mix them up in the Colcannon as a form of fun divination.
The person who gets the penny will gain finances in the coming year,
The person who gets the ring will be married,
The person who gets the bootie will have a child,
And so on!
(You can also do this with cookies and/or cake...just be sure your guests know about the game 'cause you'd hate for any of them to swallow your trinkets whole!)
|
|
Back to Top
'Clannada na Gadelica' is a registered trademark of the Clannada na Gadelica.
The following specific definitional phraseologies are Service Marked (SM) for the exclusive use of Clannada na Gadelica:
Gaelic Traditionalism, Gaelic Traditionalist, Diasporal Gaelic Traditionalism,
Diasporal Gaelic Traditionalist, Diasporan Gaelic Traditionalism, Diasporan
Gaelic Traditionalist, GT, Traditional Gaelic Polytheism, Gaelic Traditional
Polytheism, Gaelic Cultural Tradition, Gaelic Cultural Traditions, Hearthlands,
GCT
are ALL as of today Service Marked Clannada na Gadelica.
A service mark is "any word, name, symbol, device, or any combination, used, or
intended to be used, in commerce, to identify and distinguish the services of
one provider from services provided by others, and to indicate the source of the
services."
Since the early 1980s privately, and since 1993 publicly, Clannada na Gadelica,
and ONLY Clannada na Gadelica, have used this terminology, (and more terminology
which we are also Service Marking), as specific definitional phraseologies to
explicate and expound upon the Gaelic Cultural Traditions of the Gaelic
Hearthlands. Clannada na Gadelica have provided this original work and
original service exclusively, and can documentably prove we were are the originators of the modern re-employment in the Diaspora of this terminology. We specifically do NOT grant permission to use this terminology to any other entity or individuals.
I am Service Marking this work because Kathryn Price a.k.a Kathryn nic Dhana, and the Celtic
Reconstructionist identity thieves, and now other neo-pagans, as well as now a
Canadian on-line t-shirt company, have been poaching this terminology and trying
to crassly commercialize it.
Enough is enough. Clannada coined it and if it takes registering it as a
commercial service mark to protect it, then, so be it, and I'll take the
inevitable ass-whipping from the authentic Tradition Bearers in the Hearthlands
for it. When and if authentic cultural entities in the Hearthlands want to
assume the mark for themselves, I'll release it to them. Until then, this is the
line.
Kathleen O'Brien Blair, Taoiseach
Clannada na Gadelica,
A Confederation of Gaelic Traditionalists in the Hearthlands and Diaspora
|
|
|
