Feeling Lucky Final Draft

Have you ever felt extremely lucky, or had one of those days that just seem to go exactly how you wanted it to go? Saint Patrick's day is celebrated for luck and a lot of other different reasons and in a lot of different ways, and in my family we celebrate it as all out as we can with parties and great food. While we all have different reasons for celebrating this magnificent day the main reason I do it is to celebrate the good luck I've had and look forward to the good luck coming my way.
Family heritage is one of the best reasons to celebrate this day and the Mitchell family has more than enough reason to celebrate with our deep heritage. With an entire side of the family stemming from Ireland, this day is an opportunity for family to get in touch with our roots. Where people are from dictate many things like how they look, what they like to eat, or even how they act. For the family it means eating what we remember, acting like we do, and mostly getting together and celebrating. Throughout this entire day family will say call or come say hello from grandpa's to grandma's to uncle's and aunts all calling to get in touch with family and talk about where we all came from. Talking about subjects that span from family history to plans for the day. Its a busy day but all worth as people seem to tell something new every year from learning about what and who are our family really is. Throughout the years I've learned about great great grandpa's and distant relatives who have somewhat committed something of importance to our family, and each year our family gets a little closer through sharing these facts and stories.
After jobs and school is when the real fun begins music is played as loud as speakers can go and games are played and laughs are shared. As the family proclaimed Irish chef the fun and frivolities are short parts of my day as cooking the gigantic meal for the day takes hours upon hours and we usually end up eating around eight o' clock even if i had started at two. A good Irish meal for the family is many courses and many types and variations of potatoes, meat and bread. The meal preparation starts out with the dishes that take the longest to make and end with the quickest and somehow whether it's luck or not the vast array of courses is always completed and nobody leaves hungry. I've been the chef of this meal for the past five years and as my family says no one can make it as authentic and home made.
It started while in high school and I began taking various cooking classes in which I not only excelled but found something I generally enjoyed doing. Every recipe I made seemed like it was exactly how its supposed to be with no imperfections. With my cooking group we made many delicious meals and aced many cooking projects with our excellent food. It was only when a certain project came my way when my cooking for the family career began. The class was asked to make food from where we where from, from our heritage. Knowing my heritage well from the many years of St. Patrick days celebrated it was more than simple to find and pick out a few recipes from one of our many family recipe books. The dish chosen to start with was the in beginner level of cooking, Irish potato bread. Through several practice runs it was instantly a hit and my classmates loved every crumb of it. With my new confidence I tried it once at home for the family and again an instant hit. From there I tried my hand at several other dishes and throughout time I even made my own additions and took away what wasn't needed and became what I thought either a accomplished or just a plain lucky Irish cook. When the big day arrived I offered to make my dishes for the family and unknown to me it would be the start to a great tradition.
I made my versions of Irish potato bread , soups, meat dishes, and many other types of bread that day, but when it came to my last dish is when it turned from a good meal to a great and memorable one. The family's favorite dish by far that first day was the Fried Cabbage and Bacon. They couldn't get enough of it as they gobbled it down and asked for seconds and then thirds. From that day on I was made the official cook for the family for every St. Patrick's day to come.
Throughout the five years I've added many dishes to the menu. The entire meal last year involved potato bread, soda bread, potato and leek soup, Dublin coddle, and Fried Cabbage and Bacon. While I'd like to add more the main restriction is time and if I did add my family would never get to eat. Instead the recipes are substituted for other ones each year. Soup could be traded with a sausage dish or bread with a potato dish and so on. the hearty and sometimes spice of different types of meat, most often sausage. However different the meal plan is the taste can always be a little similar. Many of the recipes call for the starch and bitter taste of potatoes or the hearty and sometimes various spices of different types of meat, most often sausage. That's often why many ingredients are switched and substituted for others for example peppered and seasoned bacon over regular bacon. No matter the substitutes it always turn out different but still fantastic. Making it different each year is part of the pull and leaves family and friends to wonder what food will meet there taste buds this year.
Each year I want to add something new and I hope I'll be lucky enough for it to go well enough or for me to be able to finish it and for it to taste amazing as it always does. That's why my family celebrate the day though for great amounts of luck in life and that our family will always be willing to come closer and connect over delicious food on St. Patrick's Day.