Sunday, May 2, 2010

Eating and drinking in the British Isles

Restaurants in the UK offer a wide variety of dishes from around the world, but why not try some local dishes during your holiday. Food usually includes a traditional English home cooking with fresh regional ingredients and often in pubs or restaurants that are lighter versions of old favorites offered. Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding or local specialties such as pork or roast Lincolnshire Cumberland sausages served on most menus can be found. In the north, made with puddingIt is popular and offal of chicken and lamb dishes on the menus feature many delicious homemade desserts and soups. Meals are usually served with fries, mashed, boiled or fried potatoes and a good selection of vegetables. Whitbyon the east coast is famous for its crabs and south-east coast is known for its mussels, whelks, clams, eels and jelly known. In the UK you're never far away from a fish and chip shop selling battered cod or haddock with chips sprinkled with salt and vinegar. TraditionallyPuddings include fruit crumbles, apple pie or sponge pudding usually served with vanilla sauce. Afternoon tea is still very popular and the menu offers a good selection of cakes, pies, jam and cream and sandwiches in a shop of tea. Cheese is a great regional specialty, try different varieties in 'farmers' markets and delicatessens.

There are some excellent award-winning English white wines like the three Choirs in Gloucestershire and produced in WickhamEnjoy your holiday Hampshire.While UK to find a good selection of beer is served in many pubs, search for local micro-breweries. Mild as banks, "Holden and Highgate is found mainly in the Midlands. Pale Ales are becoming increasingly popular and Timothy Taylor, Adnams, Shepherd Neame and Marston's are good examples. Cider is still popular especially in the south-west England, as Margaret Thatcher in Somerset.

In Scotland, in search of traditional foods likeHaggis (sheep's milk cheese spiced offal and spices) served with tatties in good standing (potatoes) and neeps (mashed turnips). Deer and grouse are popular dishes as Stovies, a mixture of potatoes, onions and meat are cooked in dripping. Scotch broth of mutton or beef broth, barley, carrots and leeks, soup and Cock-a-Leek is made from chicken, cooked rice, leeks and prunes in chicken broth. Smoked fish such as herring, salmon and Arbroath (smoked haddock) can be found frequently.Finally, watch out for a delicious dish called Cullen Skink as Chowder made with smoked haddock, mashed potatoes and milk. Scotland is also famous for its many distilleries of whiskey and a couple of beers, how Deuchars and Caledonian.

Traditional dishes include lamb hot pot in Wales and Welsh Cawl (stew of meat with potatoes and vegetables). The fish is popular, and made other dishes such as Welsh rarebit (cheese on toast) and bread made of oatmeal and seaweed Laver. There are many localCheese can be enjoyed as Caerphilly and Pencarreg. Bara Brith experiments, a type of tea bread and Welsh cakes, scones cooked on a flat pan. Try food establishments owned by the taste of Wales (Cymru y Blas) is usually a sign of good food and, finally, to try a couple of beers, brain and Felinfoel.

try in Northern Ireland, local cheeses, oysters and Guinness Irish Stew and drisheen (blood sausage). Look for Soda Bread Brak yeast (bread, tea), bread and potato Endthe evening with an old Bushmills Whiskey.

When visiting the Channel Islands, Self Catering in Guernsey and Jersey by car will find lots of fresh fish, milk and local fresh ingredients and seasonal menu. Try tasty products known as hedge grew vegetables on the roadside sold worldwide on the islands. Enjoy!

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