For Guinness Sakes!

This is vegetarian irish stew, green salad with fresh herbs and cherry soda bread (just because I don't like raisins).  Down below you will see the Guinness chocolate cupcakes I made for dessert.

Vegetarian Irish Stew

3 lbs. yellow potatoes, chopped

1/2 head green cabbage, chopped

5 carrots, chopped

1 can great northern beans

1 qt. vegetable broth

1 Tbsp. caraway seeds

2 Tbsp. butter

celtic salt to taste

In a soup pot, heat the vegetable broth with the potatoes, cabbage and carrots.  Simmer until the potatoes soften.  Add the butter, caraway seeds, beans and salt.  Mash some of the potatoes to thicken the stew.  I added the rest of the Guinness from the cupcakes to add interest.

Wheat-free Cherry Soda Bread

1 cup almond meal

1 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch

~1 cup oat flour
1 & 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup dried cherries (I used dried cherries sweetened with apple juice)
5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut in cubes

1 cup sour cream or 1 c. soy milk and 1 Tbsp. vinegar

1 egg

1/4 cup agave nectar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Whisk together all dry ingredients, except the oat flour and cherries.  Cut the butter into the dry ingredients until it resembles coarse meal.  Stir the cherries into the dry mixture.  In a separate bowl mix the sour cream, eggs and agave nectar.  Once they are well combined, stir mixture into the flour mix.  Mix until dough comes together.  If it is too sticky add oat flour until dough can be patted into a ball.  Place on a parchment covered baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes or until firm.

This bread actually had a nice texture and held together pretty well.   

Oh my Guinness!!!

These are the Guinness chocolate cupcakes I made for dessert.  They were also great.