The Rare Welsh Bit

Food

#AutumnWarmers With Waitrose – Recipe: Welsh Lamb cawl

A bowl of stew with bread, butter and cheese

With the weather getting colder and the nights drawing in, I love nothing more than to tuck into a comforting, hot dinner in the evening, like sausages and mash or chilli con carne. At the beginning of this month Waitrose launched an Autumn campaign, #AutumnWarmers, celebrating comforting seasonal dishes from throughout the UK. Throughout October, the […] Read more…

Cooking with canned food – Recipe: Chicken Ruby

A bowl of curry with wild rice and poppadoms

Recently, I was shocked to discover that my home city of Cardiff eats 76 tonnes* of canned food each day! That’s 183,000 cans; if stacked up, they would be nearly 240 times the height of my former workplace, Capital Tower. Over half of Cardiff’s residents stock up to 10 cans of food in their cupboards […] Read more…

Is the Welsh Government doing enough to market and promote Wales?

collage of Welsh imagery

Do you think the Welsh Government does a good job of promoting Wales to the world? On October 16, the National Assembly for Wales Committee for the Scrutiny of the First Minister  will be meeting in Swansea to discuss ‘Wales in the Wider World’. Welsh businesses, organisations and individuals are being encouraged to submit questions to the First […] Read more…