How to Throw a St. Patrick’s Day Party.
Irish eyes will be smiling on you if you throw this great St. Paddy’s Day party.
You will need Invitations Corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes, or other traditional Irish foods
Guacamole, green salsa, and/or spinach dip Ingredients for an Irish soda bread Green
M&amp;Ms and jelly beans Green, orange, and white paper goods and decorations Lots
of beer Green food dye Vodka, sour apple schnapps, and sweet and sour mix for apple martinis
Irish music A CD or DVD of Riverdance A rabbit’s foot Coffee Whiskey Whipped cream 4 heart-shaped
cake pans Granny Smith apples and oranges.
Step 1.
Send out invitations a few weeks in advance.
Decorate them with shamrocks, leprechauns, rainbows, and/or pots of gold.
Or simply print them on green paper.
Step 2.
Plan the menu.
Corned beef and cabbage is traditional, but feel free to serve something else, like a
hearty Irish stew (made with lamb, not beef) or fish and chips (chips being french fries).
Include some crowd-pleasing appetizers that happen to be green, like guacamole, green
salsa, and spinach dip.
Step 3. Make Irish soda bread, or bake a four-leaf clover cake by using four heart-shaped pans.
Put out bowls of green M&Ms and/or green jelly beans.
Step 4.
The Irish flag is green, white, and orange, so keep those colors in mind when you pick
up paper goods, candles, balloons, streamers, etc.
Float some green and orange tea candles in glass bowls of water or, for an unusual look,
in martini glasses.
A bowl of oranges and Granny Smith apples makes a nice—and practical—centerpiece.
Step 5. Make green beer by adding a few drops of green food coloring to a pale-colored brew.
Make apple martinis for non-beer drinkers using sour apple schnapps, vodka, sweet and
sour mix, and apple slice garnishes.
Step 6.
Play music by Irish artists, like The Chieftains, U2, Enya, The Corrs, and Van Morrison.
Step 7.
Pop in a CD or DVD of Riverdance and hold an Irish step dancing contest.
Present a rabbit’s foot—a symbol of good luck in Ireland—to the winner.
Step 8.
Serve everyone an Irish coffee (coffee with whiskey and topped with whipped cream) before
they leave.
Did you know The oldest official St. Patrick’s Day parade is the one held in New York City,
which started in 1762.