{"id":24510,"date":"2025-03-17T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24510"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:45:23","slug":"celebrate-st-patricks-day-with-vegan-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/17\/celebrate-st-patricks-day-with-vegan-dishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate St. Patrick\u2019s Day with Vegan Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/262992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/262992.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In honor of St. Patrick\u2019s Day, we are sharing these vegan recipes by Enette Larson, PhD that you can prepare for today\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colcannon<\/strong><br \/>\n(Serves 4)<\/p>\n<p>1 pound potatoes, sliced<br \/>\n2 medium parsnips, peeled and sliced<br \/>\n2 medium leeks<br \/>\n1 cup soymilk<br \/>\n1 pound kale or cabbage<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon mace (optional)<br \/>\n2 cloves garlic, minced<br \/>\nSalt and Pepper to taste<br \/>\n2 Tablespoons margarine<br \/>\nParsley<\/p>\n<p>Cook the potatoes and parsnips in water until tender. While those are cooking, chop the leeks (greens as well as white parts) and then simmer them in the soymilk until soft. Next, chop the kale or cabbage and cook until tender.<br \/>\nDrain the potatoes, and season with the mace, garlic, salt, and pepper. Add the cooked leeks with soymilk. Finally, blend in the cooked kale or cabbage and margarine. The texture should be that of smooth potato with well distributed pieces of leek and kale or cabbage. Garnish with parsley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scannels\u2019 Soda Bread<\/strong><br \/>\n(Makes 1 loaf; 8 slices)<\/p>\n<p>1-1\/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour<br \/>\n1 cup oat bran<br \/>\n1-1\/2 teaspoons baking powder<br \/>\n\u00bc teaspoon baking soda<br \/>\n\u00bc teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon organic sugar<br \/>\n2 Tablespoons caraway seeds<br \/>\n\u00bc cup currants or raisins<br \/>\n1 cup soymilk plus 1 Tablespoon lemon juice<\/p>\n<p>Mix the dry ingredients well. Blend in the caraway seeds and currants or raisins. Add soymilk stirring to make a soft dough. Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead for 1 minute. Shape into a round loaf and put into an 8-inch oiled round pan. With a floured knife, cut an X into the top. Bake loaf at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until lightly browned. Cut into slices when cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of St. Patrick\u2019s Day, we are sharing these vegan recipes by Enette Larson, PhD that you can prepare for today\u2019s festivities. Colcannon (Serves 4) 1 pound potatoes, sliced 2 medium parsnips, peeled and sliced 2 medium leeks 1 cup soymilk 1 pound kale or cabbage \u00bd teaspoon mace (optional) 2 cloves garlic, minced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24512,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24510\/revisions\/24512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}