On St. Patrick's Day, celebrate the luck of the Irish with some green cuisine. Start with a tasty breakfast of green eggs. Serve a leafy salad or pea soup for lunch, celery snacks for appetizers, pesto pasta for dinner, green milk for a beverage?and shamrock cookies for dessert!

Step-by-Step:

• Cream together 1 cup sugar and 14 tbsp. butter until pale and fluffy.
• Beat in 1 egg and 1 tsp. vanilla.
• Sift together 2 cups flour and 1/2 tsp. salt.
• Stir the flour gradually into the creamed mixture and add green food coloring.
• Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. (The dough can be frozen or kept refrigerated for about seven days.)
• Roll out the dough and cut out cookies with a shamrock-shaped cutter.
• Place cookies on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake in a 350 degrees preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. Frost with green icing, or green candy sprinkles if desired. Makes around 40 cookies.

Materials:
1 cup sugar
14 tbsp. butter
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp. Salt
Green food coloring