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I've featured vegan Welsh Faggots on my blog i n the past, but have always wanted to enhance them textually and visually.  I was able to do this a few days ago for our homely St Davids Day Welsh Vegan Menu with the addition of another Welsh delicacy Laverbread.   For those of you not  from Wales and not familiar with Welsh faggots, well in a nutshell  Faggots were traditionally made with the innards of pigs. The pate like mixture was then wrapped in the lacy casing of the animals caul and oven roasted slowly.    I remember reading a while back, that the Welsh faggots is what haggis is to the Scots and is often referred to as Welsh Haggis in some par ts of Wales.   There may be some truth in this as  The Scotsman  also make reference to haggis being popular in the Welsh Valleys of Wales, but they still credit the Scots for the haggis jokingly writing that a Scottish haggis escaping to Wales in 1690, hence its popularity in Wales. ...

I have been following Olives for Dinner for a while, and Erin's originality is astounding and her generosity for sharing her recipes definitely praise worthy.   I have a number of her recipes bookmarked including her Carrot Lox  recipe.  I have been waiting for an excuse to make it.   The reason for finally making the vegan Smoked Carrot 'Salmon' came to me last week, when it was one of my good work colleagues birthday.  This colleague happens to be vegan.  One colleague who is an excellent baker had decided to make her some vegan chocolate cupcakes with Lotus Biscoffi 'butter cream'.  I had decided to have a go at making the classic Cream Cheese and Smoked 'Salmon' Bagels for her, only vegan style !   The first time I ever had smoked Salmon was by pure accident.  It was on a flight from Paris to San Francisco many, many years ago. I was assured by the flight attendant that the ready made vegetarian meal  I was having was indeed ...

St David's Day brought with it daffodils, a handful which made their way into my kitchen. I didn't have a small vase to showcase the daffodils, so had to improvise.  I had to go into the recycle bin and pull out an empty bottle of Butty Bach Ale (vegetarian and vegan reader please  see upcoming note below)* that D drank over the weekend whilst watching football.   Butty Bach translates as 'Little Friend'.   Some of you will have read my blog post on the word 'Butty' - see this link if you missed it .  I had picked up some fresh Welsh Laverbread from the market at the weekend to make lots of Welsh recipes.  For those of you unfamiliar with Welsh Laverbread or  'bara lawr'  as it is known in Wales is a seaweed, that is cooked down to a jet green paste famously described by the acclaimed Welsh actor Richard Burton as ' Welshman's caviar '.    I made a number of recipes with it, including Laverbread Risotto, Laverbread Hummus, s...

Weekends are so short, yesterday we went to  Bath, Somerset in England   and today has been a day of house chores, from dusting to laundry to ironing.  T he garden plot once again is neglected, though I am pleased to say that I have stuck some seeds in germination pots.   Now I want to rest - but have to prepare lunch for tomorrow and then make a Vegetarian roast dinner, then maybe, maybe I can finally rest my little feet.  I do sometimes wish we had a three day weekend.  Anyway, even though we have been there before, here  are some photographs of our day trip to Bath in England .   Here is also a   link to some photograph s of our past trip to Bath which also includes the inside of the  Roman Baths .   We gave a miss this time having done the tourist thing last time I love this, angels climbing up Stairway to Heaven, I guess, some were evening falling downwards. I like spotting ghost signs I ...