Vegetarian Foods Archive

Many of you came by last week through  Amy at  Five Welsh Castle posts, so in the same vain  I thought I would share five of my favourite Welsh leek recipes with you.  The Leek - as many of you will know is the national emblem of Wales alongside the daffodil and the roaring glorious red dragon.   This short blog post is also a nod towards St David's Day that will shortly be here and my Welsh roots. Hope some of these Welsh Leek recipes inspire you to celebrate St David's Day whether your Welsh or not.  Simple, but this  Leek and Potato Soup with Chilli aka Welsh Dragon Soup   remains one of my firm favourites.   I created these Welsh Leek, Caerphilly Cheese and Laverbread Burgers   when I lived in Scotland and my lovely nephew came up to see me, they were a super success.  You will find lots of versions of Red Dragon Pie, this Fiery Red Dragon Pie   is mine. Welsh Haggis Lasagne  -  Yes, the Welsh also ...

Some of you will have noticed that in the past week or so, I have been gravitating towards Welsh recipes and Welsh things.  This is for the simple reason that next week many of us in Wales will be celebrating St David's Day , even the daffodils are coming out to celebrate, though to be honest they have been out posing by the side of the roads a month earlier. As we enjoyed the  Curried Root Vegetable Stew  a couple of weeks back, I thought I would make it again, but enhance it further with the addition of spices and leeks and make it somewhat Fusion Welsh - yes we do like our leeks here in Wales, well I do.   Even though the daffodils are confused and finding the British weather warm, some of us are still finding it, so stew-like meals have been on the menu quite a bit.     Cwtch means hug in Welsh and it a word you will hear and see a lot in Wales. And these light cloud like dumplings definitely give you a big warm welcome hug, who doesn't lov...