Category: Recipe Corner

Garden grown, locally sourced, sustainably caught, foraged in season – our recipe corner provides you with make-it-at-home inspiration courtesy of local farmers, chefs, baristas and other Welsh food experts. You won’t just find the classics here, but you will find tried-and-tested recipes with a pinch of imagination. Even if you can’t travel to Wales right at the moment, you can get a taste of the country from the comfort of your own kitchen…

Recipe Corner

Pork and butterbean cawl-ssoulet: a Welsh take on cassoulet from Wales’ first recipe subscription service, Swper.Box

Lockdown has yielded some wondrous culinary innovations, and this is never more apparent than with the emergence of Swper.Box, Wales’ first and only recipe subscription service. With the sound and scrumptious reasoning that if you cannot experience the finest Welsh cuisine eating out, you should at least bring the best of it into your kitchen, Swper.Box offer vibrant, easy-to-follow eight-step recipe cards allowing you to … Continue reading Pork and butterbean cawl-ssoulet: a Welsh take on cassoulet from Wales’ first recipe subscription service, Swper.Box

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Fruits of the forage: a recipe for carragheen pudding courtesy of Wild About Pembrokeshire

With spring on the horizon, there will soon be rich pickings for foragers in Wales – whether you make for the hedgerows, hills or seashore. Julia and John, who run the fantastic forage-focused Wild About Pembrokeshire walks and the Really Wild Emporium, St Davids’ best and most original cafe, bring us a sweet taste of the Pembrokeshire coast with this easy-to-make recipe for carragheen pudding. … Continue reading Fruits of the forage: a recipe for carragheen pudding courtesy of Wild About Pembrokeshire

Kerry Walker
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Crafting your own chocolate bar: with Brecon Beacons chocolatiers and mallow-makers The Mallow Tailor

Brecon Beacons confectionary creators The Mallow Tailor (talented two-woman team Kate and Janet) concoct some of the region’s finest decorated chocolates, chocolate slabs and – perhaps most innovative of all – French-style marshmallows. They are one of Wales’ only artisan marshmallow producers, and the only confectioners in Britain to make ‘caramallows’ (chocolates with marshmallow filling and salted caramel topping). They have certainly hit the green, … Continue reading Crafting your own chocolate bar: with Brecon Beacons chocolatiers and mallow-makers The Mallow Tailor

lwaterson
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In high spirits: Aber Falls’ gin cocktail recipe created atop Snowdon

In eager anticipation of World Gin Day on 13th June (that’s this Saturday, folks), we bring you a one-of-a-kind cocktail recipe courtesy of Aber Falls Distillery in Snowdonia. This is no ordinary cocktail: it was created with the first gin to be distilled at 1085m above sea level at the summit of Snowdon. Raising the bar further still, award-winning bar tender Alex Mills – of … Continue reading In high spirits: Aber Falls’ gin cocktail recipe created atop Snowdon

Kerry Walker
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Café Môr’s laverbread brekky roll

Jonathan Williams runs the fabulously quirky Café Môr, the world’s very first solar-powered, mobile-converted fishing boat and seaweed kitchen. Overlooking Freshwater West beach in Pembrokeshire, the food truck goes way beyond ordinary beach café grub, incorporating locally foraged ingredients in a menu that skips from this sensational (and sensationally easy to make) brekky roll with laverbread to Pembrokeshire lobster roll with Welsh seaweed butter.   Ingredients … Continue reading Café Môr’s laverbread brekky roll

Kerry Walker
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Pink Peppercorn’s recipe for Fishguard Cawl

Operating from a bright-pink vintage caravan, the Pink Peppercorn food truck fires out innovative modern riffs on traditional Welsh recipes. Owners Alex and Rachel take pride in sourcing the best local, organic and seasonal ingredients, taking their truck to farmers markets, county shows and food festivals across South Wales. Here they give their unique spin on the recipe for Fishguard Cawl, named after the Pembrokeshire … Continue reading Pink Peppercorn’s recipe for Fishguard Cawl

Kerry Walker
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Classic Nettle Frittata recipe courtesy of Gill and Antosh Wislocki of St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire

Passionate about wild food and interesting flavours, Gill and Antosh Wislocki were the owners of Argo Villa B&B, one of the greatest places to stay in St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire, for many many years. Every morning they famously cooked up a storm for guests for breakfast, using whatever was in season. These days, they forage to their hearts content and do most of the consuming … Continue reading Classic Nettle Frittata recipe courtesy of Gill and Antosh Wislocki of St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire

Kerry Walker
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The ultimate Welsh Rarebit recipe courtesy of Roos Geraedts

Roos Geraedts is the owner of the International Welsh Rarebit Centre in Defynnog in the Brecon Beacons National Park. Here she shares her ultimate recipe for creating the cheesy Welsh classic, plus tips on how to give it a nice seasonal twist.  Roos says: “This is a classic recipe for Welsh rarebit. You can customise it in many different ways, for instance by adding Caerphilly … Continue reading The ultimate Welsh Rarebit recipe courtesy of Roos Geraedts

Kerry Walker
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How to pickle wild garlic buds: fresh from a Pembrokeshire preserves maker

Only choice organic, local ingredients go into Helen Lloyd’s preserves at Foxhill Farm in St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire. Also a passionate forager making the most of what each season brings, Helen tells us here how to pickle wild garlic buds, which lend a punch of garlicky goodness to simple meals year round.  Helen says: “For those lucky enough to have wild garlic to hand who have … Continue reading How to pickle wild garlic buds: fresh from a Pembrokeshire preserves maker

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