To make laverbread, seaweed (laver) gathered from the Welsh coast is boiled, then pureed or minced before being fried. Sometimes oatmeal is added prior to frying. It was traditionally served as part of a Welsh breakfast along with mushrooms, bacon, and sausages. Often served on buttered toast...
If I climb up a short way behind this gravity-defying pile of stones in the Welsh mountains that I now call home, I can view a dozen lofty peaks three times higher than the eminences of Barr Beacon and Castle Ring, which were the most elevated points in my childhood landscape of South...
It was 05.30 when I woke up and got out of bed this morning. I had had enough kip, thank you very much, and felt able to ease gently into the day downstairs whereI would not disturb anyone else. Last night I did not listen to the news on the radio again even though it was on ...
To the dhal of South India, to the black beans and my cheese in Mexico, and two to the vegan welsh cakes to the Scottish shortbread to the death by chocolate cocktail that Ian Brown from The Stone Roses gave to me. Then there’s the Japanese hotpots to the tahini sauce and the falaf...
Two Delicious Zucchini Cakes that belong in your recipes I don’t know who had the bright idea of making zucchini into a cake, but they must have had a few get away from them. I think we can all relate, and I’m sure everyone has their favourite recipe. This one may have become my...
Whatever language and whoever’s language did it best was the language we wanted. “Here is a suggestion from Berle which is OK and one from Marshall which is a peach,” I said that evening, passing them around. By common consent, they went into the next draft, each marked as an ...
And safe on board the Camito, steaming down the Welsh Coast with the tang of the salt sea breeze in my nostrils4, it flashed across me that here at last when I least expected it had come my great chance. Into my hands had been put the opportunity, if I could but use it, to ...