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If you're planning to use our recipe and method for making your own Irish-style bacon joint for boiling with cabbage the traditional Irish way, please note -- today's your last day to start the process to be in time for Saint Paddy's Day.

Check the recipe for the details. It's not at all hard to make... but you need to start now if you want to have the meat correctly brined and spiced by the 17th!

And welcome to EuropeanCuisines.com!

You can follow our tweets here. We Tweet every time we post a new European recipe. Right now, that's a new Irish recipe every day between March 1 and March 17. Coming up: the awesome Irish Coffee Cake!

(And thanks to the noble makiwi for directing you here.)

Due to our recent software upgrade, we had a problem over the past few days that meant that visitors trying to print recipes in PDF format got a "white page" failure.

The problem's now been fixed. Thanks kindly for your patience, everybody.

Our recent upgrade caused file issues that meant our IE users couldn't get any of our pages to load. Sorry, friends! We're presently finishing a fix for the problem.

Thanks for your patience!

You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs... and that goes for websites, too.

We're already starting to get ready for our annual heavy traffic period during mid-March, when the half of the planet that's gearing up for Saint Patrick's Day starts getting curious about what Irish people eat, comes looking for Peter's Mum's famous soda bread recipe and video tutorials, and discovers the truth about why the Irish don't eat corned beef and cabbage. The best way for us to get set for this shamrock-studded season is to make sure we're running the fastest and best software available, so we'll hold up under the demands of our upcoming avalanche of visitors.

With this in mind, we took our site down a few times between Friday, February 20 and Sunday, February 22, so that we could upgrade the site and its databases to run on a newer and more robust version of our preferred software, the Drupal content management system. The rest of the upgrade will take a few days more as we tune the updated site's performance. Some foreign characters will still be displaying incorrectly as a result of the upgrade: these will be sorted out over the next few days.

Thanks for your patience as we get ready for our busy time. Our 2009 Festival of St. Patrick's Day Irish Recipes will start on March 1st -- be sure to stop in and visit us then!