A vignette of Llanelli life this afternoon - everyone is finishing fishing for flounder in the Loughor estuary - it's 2pm and the match starts in an hour! Click on the picture for a better image
Alleluia it's Spring! Well, that's my story and it's a delight to absorb the sunshine yesterday and today. You can feel the Vitamin D welling up and coursing through your veins.
I also discharged a rare DIY duty, managing to secure light fittings and bulbs from Screwfix (that's why I was in Llanelli) and then finding the correct screwdrivers (miraculously not enrobed in hardened glue), remembering to turn off the leckie, and then finishing the job to an impressive 60% accuracy.
But this had to be an outside weekend so as well as the trip to the coast I do two big walks on which I find that the wild garlic is out on south-facing slopes...
This is early but in fact it has been a mild winter in spite of the wind and rain. Good also to see this...
...though not so unusual in the first half of March.
Mrs Blog is a fan of Welsh-Italian celebrity telly chef Angela Hartnett and prepares her recipe (from yesterday's Guardian - you can see it here) for penne con cime di rapa - a peasant staple of pasta and turnip tops - which is very seasonal there being little around at this time of year to stave off scurvy (apart from the wild garlic of course which goes in the salad).
Beware of the recipe's quantities - she says 350g of dry pasta for two but we did 200g, our usual and surely sufficient ration!
Actually we didn't have penne so used those spiral jobs instead. And we didn't have turnip tops but we did have kale in the garden - allowed as an alternative in the recipe. So we really had fusilli con cavolo verde I guess.
The whole meal costs about 40p for two of us but if you don't fancy cooking then you could get Ms Hartnett to do it for you at her Michelin-starred Mayfair restaurant Murano - but multiply that 40p by 400...
On goes the Aldi parmesan - Angela Hartnett calls for pecorino but we had changed all the other ingredients so...
