In Ireland we have stew and coddle. The recipe for both varies between families. In my house stew was beef stock with minced beef, carrot, potato and onion while coddle was beef stock with sausage, bacon, onion, potato and carrot.
On Hallowe'en and St. Patrick's Day we would have colcannon (which we just called curly kale), which is mashed potato with kale and/or cabbage mixed in. When I was a child we used to have ten pence pieces mixed in, as well. On Hallowe'en we'd have barmbrack for supper, which is a kind of sweet bread with raisins and sultanas. In the olden days, they used to bake five little things into the bread and if you got one in your slice it was supposed to be your fortune (bad luck, become a rich man, etc). When I was growing up, there was just a (fake) golden ring in it, which if you got it meant you'd be married within the year.
Another popular food is soda bread, which varies between the counties but in Dublin it's brown bread with with lots of baking soda mixed in so it's very savoury. Then of course, you have stalwarts like bacon and cabbage, which is still very popular. Never saw the culinary appeal of that one myself.
So yeah, that's my little corner of the food world. Lots of potatoes, who would've guessed?
