My husband is an Irish Catholic boy from Brooklyn. I am a protestant girl from Texas. I am Scottish and Irish but did not grow up eating the traditional foods of my ancestry. What is ironic is that it IS my ancestry that contributed the most to me having my disease--celiac. Anyway, John loves Irish food and was raised eating it on a very regular basis. I am learning to cook the Irish foods he enjoys such as soda bread, corned beef, and Irish Stew. The Irish put a great emphasis on potatoes and butter-yummy! One of the dishes John especially likes is colcannon.
I have never been a fan of cabbage. Basically all colcannon is, is mashed potatoes with cabbage and lots of butter, lots of milk, lots of salt and pepper. Easy. And, if you have leftovers, you can make what's called bubble and squeak in England, apparently. Just fry the mixture until brown on one side, then flip, and eat. My husband would probably add a fried egg on top for himself.
Directions to make Colcannon:
If you're making corned beef by boiling the meat(which John prefers over the baked way), then add 1 head of cabbage, roughly chopped, and a few potatoes, roughly 4, peeled and cut into about 6 pieces in the last twenty minutes of cooking. Remove the meat when it's done, separate out the potatoes and mash them with a lot of butter (I used about a half a stick) and about a half cup of milk or half and half, and a good big pinch of salt and pepper. Stir in the cabbage, but first chop it up finer if you want. I wanted to because I wanted to pretend I wasn't eating cabbage. It should be good and fluffy.
If you're not making corned beef, boil a pot of salted water and add your potatoes and cabbage. I threw in half a rough chopped onion too. Cover and boil until everything is tender, about 15 minutes. Follow instructions above.
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