Green foods galore

This St. Patrick's Day celebrate green eats that bring the tasty back to the Irish holiday

At the end of each cold Connecticut winter, March stands like a beacon of light, offering hope that the frosty ground will soon yield to a new growth of daffodils. Perhaps due to the renewed optimism of spring fever, the color green suddenly seems to pop up everywhere.

Yet nowhere is the sight of green more apparent than its auspicious appearance—just in time for St. Patrick's Day—at Connecticut restaurants, where diners have been known to consume everything from green bagels to green eggs, all washed down with a swig of green beer, of course!

Now we don't know about you, but here at Metromix nothing grosses us out more than food rendered Kermit's famous hue by the use of enormous amounts of green food coloring. So, in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, we bring you a gamut of naturally green foods that actually taste good. And, lucky for us, restaurants across the state offer up these tasty greens in a variety of presentations that will fan your spring fever and put you in a luck-'o-the-Irish mood all at once.