Drinking Guinness Today? It may prevent a heart attack….and that’s no blarney! (via The Single Wife)

According to National Geographic News, Guinness may work as well as aspirin!   I knew the darker beers had more antioxidants, but I never really considered THIS: "At a meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida, three years ago, researchers reported that Guinness may be as effective as daily aspirin in reducing the blood clots that cause heart attacks. (The benefit derives from antioxidants, which the researchers said reduce ch … Read More

via The Single Wife

Cheers on St. Patrick’s Day!

Y’all know how I like my themes…so for St. Patrick’s Day, I’ll blog about something green (and maybe Irish).

“The modern celebration of St. Patrick’s Day really has almost nothing to do with the real man,” said classics professor Philip Freeman of Luther College in Iowa.

Who Was the Man Behind St. Patrick’s Day?

The real St. Patrick wasn’t even Irish.

He was born in Britain around A.D. 390 to an aristocratic Christian family with a townhouse, a country villa, and plenty of slaves.

What’s more, Patrick professed no interest in Christianity as a young boy, Freeman noted.

At 16, Patrick’s world turned.

He was kidnapped and sent overseas to tend sheep as a slave in the chilly, mountainous countryside of Ireland for seven years.

“It was just horrible for him,” Freeman said. “But he got a religious conversion while he was there and became a very deeply believing Christian.”

~excerpt from John Roach’s article for National Geographic News (Updated March 16, 2010)

Today is St. Patrick’s Day and plenty of us will celebrate with food and beer.  Here is my advice for the indulgent:  Make sure what you ingest today is delicious.  If you are making your great grandma’s corn beef and cabbage recipe, make it and enjoy it, but skip the canned corned beef hash (for the sake of the holiday)…..  Also, drink the beer, but stick with something authentic, like Guinness, and maybe, just maybe, you’ll only consume one or two instead of downing a 12-pack of Natural Lite…..

Do you have a recipe that you will make for tonight (or this weekend)?  Please share!