St. Patrick's Day Theme Dinner

I LOVE making holidays fun for my kids, I also love cooking and baking so holiday theme dinners are kinda my thang!! 

My kids go wild for these dinners {even though they have to wait ALL day for it. Haha} and my husband appreciates the effort I put into them to make even the smallest holidays memorable for our family!

Here is my St. Patrick's Day Dinner for 2015! 

Green Goddess Salad- okay this one is pretty simple! {you need a few simple sides to balance out the more time consuming ones!} What I did was combine a Very Veggie Salad Kit with some additional Romaine lettuce, shredded Parmesan, cherry tomatoes and croutons. The most important part is using The Green Goddess salad dressing {sold at grocery stores}! It is divine! It reminds me a lot of ranch actually! ;)

Roast Beef- don't throw stones at me but I used a pre cooked one from Costco! Seriously the best roast I've ever had! I believe it's by Morton's. Yall should go try it because seriously it takes 10 minutes to re heat and what a time saver! 

If you prefer to make your own roast I would absolutely recommend the Pioneer Woman's roast! 

Shamrock Rolls- I used the bread recipe from my guest post on Lemon Baby Designs blog and just improvised them into shamrocks! It worked great!!

http://lemonbabydesigns.blogspot.com/2015/02/twisted-italian-bread-sticks.html?m=1

Rainbow Jello- this yummy side has become a family favorite and a st Patrick's day MUST!! I will set a link from my old blog for the recipe! 

http://shimmersandglitters.blogspot.com/2012/03/rainbow-jello.html?m=1

Cream Golden Nuggets- more commonly known as cream corn! Now I grew up on the canned stuff and thought that was pretty amazing but just wait until you've tried it homemade!! It's also a quick side made in under 10 mins!

 Here is how I put it together: place 2 cans of corn in a skillet, add heavy cream until it almost covers the corn {no more than 1 cup} add sugar to taste (3-4 Tbs), add salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil and add 1 1/2 tsp cornstarch. Remove from the heat once it's thickened. Easy!

Pinch Me Potatoes- better known as Twice Baked Potatoes! I stumbled on this recipe from allrecipes several years ago and it's my go to! BUT I've twisted it! I substitute the sour cream for 4 oz cream cheese, I cop out and use bacon bits, and I sub the green onions for parsley for color!

http://m.allrecipes.com/recipe/24332/ultimate-twice-baked-potatoes/?page=0

Lucky Brownie Mint Trifle- I made up this little diddy last year and it was such a success I brought it back this year! Also super easy! I made brownies the night before to help with time. I used individual trifle bowls I bought from wal mart for $2! {I love those things!}

For the mint cool whip all I did was mix a little mint extract and green food coloring into Half a container of cool whip. 

I layered brownie, crushed mint cookies {for a crunch. Optional.}, chocolate pudding and mint cool whip. Make sure to have 2 layers of each and top with a cookie, or Andes mint if you forego the cookies. 😄

  And that winds up this years St Patrixks Day Dinner!!🍀🍀🍀