We tried a new (to me) dish

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Our grocery store sent out a mailer with some coupons in it, and a recipe. My husband loves looking at and trying new recipes. This recipe was for colcannon. I had heard of it before, but it did not appeal to me. Bob, my husband says "Oh, I remember that from grandma's". Of course he would, it is an Irish recipe, and his granny was Irish and ruled the rather large family. On Sunday you WOULD be at the Big House for dinner, unless you were dead. I did not like the recipe in the flyer. It was made with kale. I had not ever been interested in colcannon before anyway, but I looked up some recipes online and the idea grew on me.When I read about it years ago it did not appeal at all. It is often made with green cabbage. One website said that there are as many recipes for it as there are Irish cooks. So basically the dish is sauteed green cabbage stirred into mashed potatoes, and often with scallions added at the end. That is not very enticing just to read it that way, but when you fill it with butter and cream and some garlic---Yum!. So, that was our vegetable and our starch for supper. We also had smoked beef dinner sausage, and yogurt with crushed pineapple. I have a huge container of it saved for later this week too. It makes an excellent side dish. Now I am off to bed, to deal with "spring forward" tonight.