Ponch Maip

 Happy Saturday Lovelies..

And our celebration of our favourite Welsh food continues

With a very busy day ahead, we started the morning with a lovely breakfast of Ministry of Food Wartime Welsh Eggs..

Wartime Welsh Eggs

I’m not quite sure what Welsh about it unless it’s a play on Welsh Rarebit but all the same..it’s quite delicious.

We spent the day pottering in the garden Our lovely friend Primo had gifted us with a couple of plumeria trees from his yard and MrD had to get them in the ground pretty quick before the day got too hot. And believe me..it got hot. 91 degrees..and its only February

After tending my flowers, I managed to plant all my seed potatoes. 

I’m hoping for a bumper crop again this year.

Dinner was another Welsh dish and one of our favorites Ponch Maip

Ponch Maip.. also known as Ponchmipe.. is a local dish from North Wales, where I was born.  Maip is the Welsh word for turnip/swede. Ponch, as it sounds, means to punch or to mash.

So quite simply, its mashed potato and mashed swede or turnip, mixed together with a little butter and salt and pepper to taste. 

Often served with savory dishes like sausages it can also include carrots, be served with onion gravy, or be used as a topping for shepherd's pie.

Real comfort food... and absolutely delicious

And to end the day, we watched our favourite Welsh movie 

how green was my valley starring Maureen O’Hara and Walter Pidgeon 

Perfect!