Food in Wales with Gordon Ramsey

[Widow of Vietnam Vet]

WOW, I am glad I caught this show-on the National Geographic channel .Wales has three times as many sheep as people. I raised Suffolk sheep but need to look up the white sheep in Wales. Gordon had a delicious breakfast from a man who cooked bacon and eggs, with cockles and a seaweed paste.
Another Welsh man showed him how to gather cockles, and another man tried to show him how to fish for '"sea trout" with a net (it looked like salmon to me when it was being smoked).

But Ramsey fell off the strange small boat ( a coracle sp?) that he needed to fish in. He then went to a cave 500 feet below the surface to taste and buy some aging cheddar cheese, and ended up in Prebrookshire? -need to look that up, and visited a seaweed farm. They were harvesting sugar kelp and another type of seaweed to make the seaweed paste he had eaten on the breakfast meal.

The show ended with him gathering all the people who were on the show teaching him how these things are caught and cooked, and they also roasted 2 big lamb legs. All the cooking was done on an outside grill, and they all said it was delicious.

I would love to try those cockles with the seaweed paste-but I cooked mussels in sauce on Friday and I am a little leery about finishing them up - but they are probably still safe to eat. I could pretend they are cockles and I can add some fresh spinach and pretend that is seaweed.

The scenery in Wales was Beautiful!

 

[Pinky]

WOW, I am glad I caught this show-on the National Geographic channel .Wales has three times as many sheep as people. I raised Suffolk sheep but need to look up the white sheep in Wales. Gordon had a delicious breakfast from a man who cooked bacon and eggs, with cockles and a seaweed paste.
Another Welsh man showed him how to gather cockles, and another man tried to show him how to fish for '"sea trout" with a net (it looked like salmon to me when it was being smoked).

But Ramsey fell off the strange small boat ( a coracle sp?) that he needed to fish in. He then went to a cave 500 feet below the surface to taste and buy some aging cheddar cheese, and ended up in Prebrookshire? -need to look that up, and visited a seaweed farm. They were harvesting sugar kelp and another type of seaweed to make the seaweed paste he had eaten on the breakfast meal.

The show ended with him gathering all the people who were on the show teaching him how these things are caught and cooked, and they also roasted 2 big lamb legs. All the cooking was done on an outside grill, and they all said it was delicious.

I would love to try those cockles with the seaweed paste-but I cooked mussels in sauce on Friday and I am a little leery about finishing them up - but they are probably still safe to eat. I could pretend they are cockles and I can add some fresh spinach and pretend that is seaweed.

The scenery in Wales was Beautiful!

I'm allergic to many types of fish, but would have loved to try the seaweed paste, as I love seaweed

 

[Widow of Vietnam Vet]

A veterinarian recommended using seaweed paste mixed in our horse feed. Our horses had a healthy shiny glow in the spring as it treats the hair growth with vitamins. I ate seaweed myself somewhere-long ago - maybe in a Chinese restaurant.
Ramsey actually nibbled on the sugar kelp as soon as he pulled some into the boat and he said it was delicious.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Another Welsh man showed him how to gather cockles, and another man tried to show him how to fish for '"sea trout" with a net (it looked like salmon to me when it was being smoked).

Sea trout looks a lot like salmon. They are bright red orange from eating shrimp




They are really tasty too. My SIL and my husband picked up muscles and cooked them. I have great pictures of them together.

 

[Furryanimal]

Sounds like Wales.
We do have a lot of sheep….but not as many coracles as we used to have.
laver bread is seaweed based.