St Patrick + St Pierre

My favorite party holiday, St Patrick's Day, is happening this Sunday!!! With the added bonus of the there being a UFC fight with George St-Pierre fighting the title match today. We are going to DVR it and watch it tomorrow. So don't you think about spoiling it for me.

So....

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Equals one heck of a party.

We will be featuring the same food and drink as last year. Vegan Irish Hand Pies and Vegan Irish Car Bombs.

What to do for our man from America's Hat?! Well unfortunately I don't have time to figure out the best way to make Poutine. So I am just going to buy some of those delicious vegan maple cookies from Trader Joe's and maybe get a Canadian Whiskey for good measure.

Will post pictures on Monday, in what I am sure is going to be a headache fog.

CHEERS!!!!!

Getting Bombed, Vegan Style

The extremely offensive Irish Car Bomb cocktail has been a staple of our St. Patrick's Day parties for a few years now.  Well they didn't start out as parties. They started out with a few of us drinking them and watching Boondock Saints. (you know, 'cause they are Irish.) Well, that became annual and then it became quite the shindig.  Here is my picture from last year. -

So this year, with my constant attempts to be animal-product free, I figured I needed to make an ICB without using your run of the mill Irish Cream.

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For those of you who don't know this is how you make an ICB -

~8oz Guiness Stout in a glass

~A shot glass filled half-way with Baileys Irish Cream

~Jameson Irish Whiskey floated on top of the Irish Cream.

You drop the shot of Whiskey and Irish Cream into the Stout and chug.

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So I put myself on the mission of making the perfect Vegan Irish Cream. 

Well apparently my very I should have been a Mixologist, because I came up with a slammin' alternative. I couldn't pry it out of Kris' hands. (Not that he is really that much a booze snob, but he would tell me if it sucked.)

Without further ado...

Vegan Irish Cream

2 parts vodka

2 parts Torani Irish Cream flavoring

1 part So Delicious Coconut Creamer  - French Vanilla

Keep everything in the fridge including the syrup. This will make it nice and thick. Now I am guessing you can make a big ol' batch and keep it for about as long as the creamer is good. I haven't tried it though, so trust your digestive health to yourself or someone with a medical license. Also this is more alcoholic than you average Irish Cream. About 26% alcohol vs 17%. (I should brush up on my math skills - it is actually 16% so essentially the same.) It will also be slightly darker in color. 

REMEMBER THIS - We want you to be able to enjoy this recipe for many years to come. Like 80! So please please PLEASE have a good time and get a designated driver, call a cab, crash on a couch and offer yours to an inebriated friend. We love you and we want you safe.

Stay tuned - tomorrow you will get my Vegan Hand Pie recipe!!