Stockbridge.
Guests
We were five, gathered around the kitchen table
Menu
Sherry
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Cheese Bread
Cennin Cawl (Leek and Potato Soup)
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Cheese and Crackers
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Welsh Cakes
Tea
Notes
Overall this is a menu worth wheeling out again, we now own a stone, which makes the welsh cakes much easier. It was nice to have a few daffs, and pretend to be welsh for a while. We played a combination of Catatonia, Tome Jones, and Bryn Terfel, who sings a good Land of My Fathers.
The cheese would have been better if Peckhams hadn't run out of Y Fenni. The Cheese bread went a bit wrong, probably because I mis programmed the bread machine, but it tasted fine, it was just ready too early (and thus not lovely and warm.) If I tried it again I might b e tempted to drop some mustard in with the cheese, or maybe a drop of ale. (Brains or similar for St Ds day ideally.)
The Leek and Potato soup was a sort of success, taste wise I was happy. I boiled potato and then added the potato, to gently fried leek and onion, with some stock. I had liberally seasoned the leek and onion, and put some sherry in with it. I served it far too gloopy, subsequent lunches saw it refined with more sherry, a little milk, and lots more water. We served this with creme fraiche and plenty of pepper.
The sherry was mainly an excuse to use our decanter and glasses, I was the only one who was mad keen on it, of those others who would drink sherry, I think most would drink something more on the lines of bristol cream. I suppose it would have been better to have some beer on hand also.
We made the welsh cakes while everyone was there, so folk could eat them warm off the stone. Everyone loves welsh cakes, and I hope to make them more often. Next year perhaps we should round of with a trip to the pub, or a wander round our back garden.
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