Lucky Foods To Eat While Drinking Beer At A St. Patrick's Day Party

An old joke about Wisconsin small towns is that across the street from every church is a bar. And when Wisconsinites celebrate St. Patrick's Day , we meet in the bar. Miraculously, we've transformed the feast day of Ireland's patron saint into a grand drinking party. The holiday has become a reason to drink copious amounts of good beer. On St. Patrick's Day, WI-Irish join Wisconsin-Germans, WI-Norwegians, WI-Swedes, WI-Mexicans, WI-you-name-the-nationality to raise beer mugs in toast to "The Luck Of The Irish". But unlike New Year's Day with its long list of lucky foods, St. Patrick's Day lucky foods may be any food that helps you wake up feeling reasonably okay on March 18th.
So which St. Patrick's Day lucky foods does the Wisconsin gourmet eat? What are the ultimate drinking foods? High-protein fatty foods and salty foods. Why? Ingestion of fat and protein slows digestion allowing the drinker to consume more beer before feeling ill. And a higher intake of salt helps the drinker retain water countering the alcohol's efforts to make him give it up. That hang-over headache is largely due to dehydration. The only difficulty is inducing the partier to eat these foods rather than filling up completely on beer. That's why the lucky foods are the gourmet foods. They taste even better than beer.
Here are some suggestions. The ultimate drinking food is nuts. High in salt, protein, and the-good-kind-of-fat, nuts top the list of lucky St. Patrick's Day foods. Plus, nuts are easy to serve and easy to eat, - no plates or utensils required. Second on the list is cheese. Cheese fills the belly with good nutrition, and in curd form is also easy to eat one-handed (the other hand being busy holding a beer mug). The traditional gourmet may choose pickled eggs to eat with his beer. Jars of pickled eggs adorn many of Great Britain's pubs, so a jar on your bar at home will add a touch of authenticity to your St. Patrick's Day party.
Since St. Patrick's Day has become a multi-ethnic celebration in the U.S., Wisconsin gourmets feel free to consume well-known drinking foods of other cultures. German Summer sausages are lucky because they too are high in protein and fat. Their delicious flavor entices the drinker to turn from the bar and toward the table.
Lastly, it's well-known that drinking beer often induces a craving for sweets. There's no better way to round-out the gourmet's feast of lucky foods than with decorative St. Patrick's Day cookies. With these scrumptious gourmet Wisconsin foods in your cupboard, you're ready for a grand St. Patrick's Day party!

Waiting For March In Wisconsin By Eating Gourmet Specialty Foods

What do Wisconsinites do the last week of February? We wait for March. And what do we eat while waiting? We eat meat! Specialty meat! February is meat month at Wisconsinmade.com!!! Yes, we are loving those brats, those steaks, those bison snacks, those bacon slabs, and those summer sausages. Not to be missed, we're chasing those free-range chickens. We're snagging those rushing water trout and salmon. Yes, this time of year we crave massive amounts of nutritious protein to fortify our bodies for winter's last blasts of snow and ice.
Of course our scrumptious Wisconsin cheeses aid our efforts. We are melting award-winning cheeses on our burgers! We're doing all we can to forget the cold and that means eating deliciously warm, flavorful meats, fish, chicken, and cheeses.
Salads and fruits we long for you to adorn our summer tables. We crave your fresh, garden sweetness. But in the meantime, it's meat-time! Party On and we'll March toward May.

How To Test Your Valentine's Love With Gourmet Food Gifts

Why give gourmet food to your valentine? - because if your valentine is really your valentine then he or she will share that gift of gourmet food with you. If any doubt about your valentine's depth of love haunts your mind, take this depth test now. Offer him or her the highest quality chocolates and truffles, handmade by gourmet chocolatiers. If upon opening, the chocolates are shared with you, then you've received a strong sign that your valentine's love is true. Don't trust your heart's future to drugstore chocolates; lovers have been known to share them with pet hamsters. Only hand-fashioned chocolates give true tests of love.
Some people were not born loving chocolate, and on them this truffle test can give a false positive. For these valentines, seek out other gourmet foods not easily shared such as sweet, Danish kringle. Tempt your valentine with cherry or pecan kringle; see how large a slice you are served.
If your valentine prefers meat over sweet, then give a gift of special smokehouse meats or bacon-wrapped filets. These gifts are packed with plenty of food to share, so you'll enjoy dining on them too. But the test lays in whether or not your feasting valentine simultaneously shares his or her attention with you. Does your valentine pause between bites to gaze into your eyes? Or are both eyes only on the meat?
What to do if your valentine fails the tests? Better to find out now and dump that false valentine. You'll be glad that you did because then when your order of gourmet food next arrives, you won't have to share!