Join The Recipe Hunters in Wales as they discover the traditional recipes behind the most treasured Welsh dishes. Thanks to all of the Welsh families who opened their homes & hearts to our community!  A special thanks to Visit Wales, without you this could not be possible. Check out the films below to begin your adventure!

legendary landscape and food in

wales

Glamorgan Sausages
Glamorgan Sausages

Learn how to make traditional Welsh (vegetarian) sausages with Hazel!

Foraging and Feasting in Wales
Foraging and Feasting in Wales

A wild foraging and five star feasting journey in Wales with Matt Powell; a fisherman, a forager, and a chef!

Rarebit with Penny
Rarebit with Penny

Penny teaches us a traditional Welsh rarebit recipe which brings cheese on toast to the next level!

In the Hands of Mountains
In the Hands of Mountains

Gwyn Thomas continues a 300 year old family legacy safeguarding the animals of Gwynedd’s Nant Ffrancon Valley in North western Wales.

Welsh Cakes with Nia
Welsh Cakes with Nia

Welsh cakes are a favorite recipe among the Welsh. They are a delicious mix between a cookie and a pancake stuffed with raisins.

Aberffraw Cake Recipe with Tilley
Aberffraw Cake Recipe with Tilley

A traditional scallop shaped short bread cookies from Anglesey, Wales

conwy mussels
conwy mussels

Harvest and cook Conwy Mussels in Wales with Tom Jones

Cyflath, A Welsh Toffee Recipe
Cyflath, A Welsh Toffee Recipe

Elisabeth and her son Guto teach you how to make their Nain's family recipe for Welsh Toffee

Bara Brith Bread Recipe with Sian
Bara Brith Bread Recipe with Sian

A moist tea cake made from dried fruit, tea, self-raising flour, warm spices, sugar, and an egg. Absolutely scrumptious!!

The Welsh Breakfast
The Welsh Breakfast

If you had to taste one dish in Wales to represent the country, we think The Welsh Breakfast should be it! The Welsh Breakfast relies on juicy fried bacon, the fat of which is used to fry the famous Welsh laverbread seaweed, Penclawdd cockles, bread, and a fresh egg!

Abergavenny Food Festival
Abergavenny Food Festival

A foodie festival held every September in Abergavenny!

Halen Môn
Halen Môn

Anglesey Island Sea Salt - Halen Mon

Lobscouse or Cawl Recipe
Lobscouse or Cawl Recipe

Lobscouse or Cawl is a Welsh Stew. This simple stew with meat and seasonal root vegetables is the perfect meal on a cold, rainy day. Gwyn Thomas the shepherd and farmer taught us his mother’s recipe for lobscouse which kept us warm for hours!

A Welsh Sunday Roast
A Welsh Sunday Roast

Join the Johnstone family as they invite you to celebrate in a traditional Welsh Sunday Roast!

Collecting Laverbread
Collecting Laverbread

Collecting laver to make a laverbread burger!

a little bit about

wales

We want to share with you a little bit of the knowledge we gleaned while in Wales.

 

location

Wales is a country located on the Southwest region on the island of Great Britain. In size, Wales is a bit bigger than Connecticut and a bit smaller than New Jersey. It takes about 4.5 hours to drive from the northern to the Southern coast and about 1.5 hours to drive from West to East in it’s very middle. If you don’t feel like road tripping, you can walk the country via its @walescoastpath which hugs the entire 870 mile coast line of the country. Wales is famous for its lush greenery, its rocky coastlines, its jagged mountain peaks, its rolling hills, and its patchwork farms.

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landscape 

If you like patterns, Wales is the place for you! Each of Wales mountains, hills, and valleys are polka dotted with white furry balls. That’s because there are three times as many sheep as people in Wales (approx. 9 million sheep). Wales takes the practice of grass-grazing animals to the next level. You cannot venture an eight of a mile within the country without seeing a grazing animal.

 

language

In Wales, they say “brelli” instead of umbrella, “Wellies” for Wellington boots, and “Croeso i Cymru” for “Welcome to Wales.” That last one isn't a dialect or accent, that’s a language. Welsh! Welsh is one of the oldest living languages in Europe! Our favorite welsh world is cwtch for cuddle and our favorite welsh sound is the “ll’ which is is used 5x in "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch," a large village on the island of Anglesey in Northern Wales which also holds the title for the 2nd longest place name in the world. 

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people

If you’d ask us to describe the stereotypical Welsh person, we’d say extremely kind, honest, proud, merry, quirky, hard working, family-oriented, sarcastic, and patriotic. For being a small country, Wales has produced some very influential people. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Calvin Coolidge were all of Welsh ancestry? Today, Wales is the birthplace of talented actors like Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Christian Bale. Incredible authors, like Ronald Dahl and C.S. Lewis and talented musicians like Tom Jones and Charlotte Church. I think that’s enough to chew on for now. Enjoy the films!!!