
I experimented with some irish food in this cook Irishing Cooking cookbook I picked up at Borders on the bargin rack last weekend. Inspired by the stories i’ve been told about ponyshoes by my friend Cassie and her family, who hail from around Springfield/Edinburg, IL, I decided to try my own.
For those of you who don’t know what a pony shoe is, it’s a piece of toast, a burger, fries, and cheese sauce, I think, well its something like that. There is also a horseshoe which is bigger than a pony shoe. (Sorry to those of you who do know what they are, i know i didn’t get it quite right) Anyways, Cassie’s nephew, Nathan has made breakfast ponyshoes I’ve been told, which is kind of like what I made. Because all my recipes where Irish breakfast food.
I started out with Boxty potato pancakes, which are like a crepe, but they didn’t turn out big enough to make into a blintz ( a stuffed crepe). So I made my potato pancakes, fried some bacon, made creamy scrambled eggs, made a mustard sauce from another recipe that i modified and put some Canadian club whiskey in it (because it was the only kind i had on hand).
So you put your potato cake on your plate, put some eggs, maybe some sauteed onions if you like, bacon, and whiskey mustard sauce, and parsley flakes. It was good, but I need to work on the mustard sauce, it didn’t come out quite right. And next time I’m going to put some pan-cooked cabbage on it to make it more Irish.
There you go, I love to cook. I come to think of cooking as homemade chemistry, and it is in way. I like to experiment with what I have on hand and see how it turns out and maybe tweak things if they need it.