I totally fell for it

I am very impressionable when it comes to food.

Not people’s opinions of it or anything of the sort.  But what people are eating.

I don’t eat fast food very often but every once in awhile someone will tell me about this amazing sub they had for lunch and within 2 week’s time, I’m sitting down to an assorted with extra dressing.

I once saw a woman’s cart with a soft taco kit for a kind of taco lasagna.  Three days later, I was assembling one from scratch.

And despite thinking I am smarter than the average public, I totally fell for all of the St. Patrick’s Day marketing.

I haven’t celebrated St. Patrick’s Day since my teens when going out to a bar was an event and I am not Irish, so I don’t have any cultural connection to it.  It’s just another day I don’t go to a bar and I don’t have green food.

And every year, it’s been getting more and more press coverage.  Over the last couple of months, I had to sift through a ton of newsletters, press releases and restaurant menus featuring Guinness-soaked this and cabbage stuffed-that.  Every St. Paddy’s Day email included potato recipes and hearty, hearty fare.

Whatever.

Except that unbeknownst to me, I totally fell for it.

Last night I made Tourtiere and Wilted Cabbage.

Tourtiere is not an Irish dish, but it’s hearty and meaty and for the last 2 days, I’d been wandering around craving cabbage.

Hear that?  Craving cabbage?

Oh good lord.  They got to me.

I wonder what’s going to happen for Easter.