Hi
friends,
Wow!
March sure was a busy month for LittleShamrocks.com.
It is always the busiest because of St. Patrick’s
Day. As time passes, we get more and more traffic
coming into the site, as well as more and more
orders for Irish products, mainly food. The
total of individuals who came to the site in
March
was well over 86,786, up from last year’s
total of 63,878; and over 13,000 on St. Patrick’s
Day alone, up from last year’s 8,683.
I
always hear from people with questions about
the Irish
recipes and, in March, appetizers are
a particular favorite. People like to present
a variety
of finger foods for their St. Patrick’s
Day celebrations.
So,
now we are in April, and Easter is on the 4th
this year. Lou has featured many
of our Easter
recipes and products on the
Home Page, so
I hope that you will try some of them. You can
also read the article of Irish
Easter Traditions.
We
have received a wonderful response from our LittleShamrocks.com
FaceBook page.
We have
many more fans, and many have spread the word to
their friends about our web site. The number of
subscribers to our newsletter increased sharply
in March and we believe that our FaceBook page
contributed quite a bit. We recently connected
with another FaceBook business, Ben's
Sugar Shack,
producers of Pure New Hampshire Maple Syrup.
I
prepared a new entree, Irish Apple Maple Pork
Chops, using 
Ben's
Pure Maple Syrup. The recipe appears on
both LittleShamrocks.com and Ben's
Sugar Shack Website.
Ben's
website was built by our webmaster, Lou Bradbard,
of Wild
Goose Web
Design. I will be preparing more of
Ben's maple recipes for photographing and publishing
on his site.
We
are pleased to announce that Gerry Bohan has
returned with his column “The
Leitrim Connection”.
He was very busy during 2009 and is now back
with news from Co. Leitrim.
I
received a submission from Sandrine Teti, from
France, asking if I would post some information
about a watercolor painting course being
offered
in Ireland in June. If you are interested,
here
is a link to their notice:
CARRE
D’AQUARELLISTES
watercolour
painting course in IRELAND
I
am going to be busy in April preparing a wedding
shower for my son, Chris, and
his fiancee,
Robin.
I am going to make lots of appetizers,
including some of the ones on LittleShamrocks.com,
such as Irish
Sausage Kebabs,
Teriyaki
Chicken Wings and Irish
Prawn Bundles.
I am
also making a shower cake using the Irish
Lemon Carrot
Cake recipe, iced with my Best
Cream Frosting. I will take a photo
and add it in May.
Until
next time, I wish you and your families a
very lovely Easter.
Slainte,
Tyna
