Europe in many dishes 11: The Food Shed in Canterbury (Kent)

A fabulous covered market in Canterbury, selling all kinds of gorgeous things!

Europe in many dishes, 10: Meal on the road

Literally! The great British picnic, in a layby by the side of a little country road! Ingredients: Two packs Marks and Spencers sandwiches(Scottish smoked salmon and cream cheese; chicken and basil); a pack of nice British crisps--Red Leicester cheese and onion flavour; delicious juicy cherries; spring water from Malvern!
Add sun, birdsong--and a simple collection turns into a nice relaxing interlude.

Europe in many dishes, 9: Meals on the road in mid-Wales..

Driving from North Wales to mid-Wales into South Wales and the Cardiff area, we stopped in mid-Wales for lunch in Machynlleth and afternoon tea in Brecon. Lunch was in a deli-cafe, the Blasau, which was housed in a lovely old building with sloping, creaking floors and half-timbered walls, and which specialises in all kinds of delicious very local and wider Welsh products.
I had a very good wild boar ham salad, while David had an organic smoked-chicken salad. Both well accompanied with three very nice breads--corn and herb; a dark walnut bread, and olive bread. Fantastic!
Afternoon tea in Brecon--home-baked sponge cake washed down with tea-- was taken in a very unusual building--the parish church of St Mary's! It is actually a working church, not a deconsecrated one and it felt very odd at first to be sitting down to tea and cakes under the stained glass! But nice too, very peaceful. And certainly a first for us!

Around Europe in many dishes 8: More North Welsh delights

Lovely day meandering around the lanes and byways of Anglesey and Holy Island, on the ancient-history trail, looking for ancient settlements, from the Neolithic to the Romano-British, scattered throughout this amazing bit of North Wales.
And found some nice food too!
A lovely simple lunch of fresh pea and mint soup, with crusty bread, in a little cafe along the way: deliciously flavoursome and satisfying yet so simple!
Dinner in Beamaris seafood place rather more sophisticated but still with that special delicious simplicity of good ingredients: local Menai Strait mussels in a garlic broth; and fish pie bursting with haddock, salmon, cod, and prawns, with in a creamy leek sauce, under a crusty golden cheese top!

Around Europe in many dishes 7: North Welsh seafront meal

On the windswept shore of Ynys Mon, otherwise known as Anglesey Island in North Wales, facing the Menai Strait and Snowdonia, lies the little town of Beamaris. Here we had a rather nice meal sourced mainly from local ingredients, from the bounty of sea and hills, in a restaurant called the Pier House.
Starters were devilled grilled sardines(with a sauce made from tomato, a touch of Worcestershire sauce and a touch of mustard) for me and fried whitebait for David; mains dressed crab and salad for me and Anglesey lamb with braised red cabbage and new potatoes for David. Nice food, nice atmosphere, and reasonable prices! And a great view..

Around Europe in many dishes, 6: Lake District meal

Nice lunch at a lovely cafe called Hazelmere at Grange over Sands in the Lake District: local potted shrimps from Morecambe Bay with toast and salads; breaded scampi, also local-ish, with new potatoes and peas; and three different mini burgers, or sliders as they're often called in Australia, made from local beef, lamb and pork! Washed down with very good tea.

Around Europe in many dishes, 5: The Haggis!

No real comment needed--either than this one was bought freshly-made from Ballards the Butchers in Castle Douglas, it was delicious, and served with mashed neeps(swedes), fried sliced potatoes, and curly kale!
Yum..