Cathy's Holiday in England

Cathy, I'm so glad you finally made it to Old Blighty.  Can't wait to see the pics.  Welcome home!  xx

glad you enjoyed your trip Cathy, surprised you didnt find a conish pasty though, I live 300 miles from Cornwall and i can walk into any bakery shop in our High street and buy one, lol basicaly make a circle of pie pastry, short-crust etc. having pre-boiled some diced potatoe, diced carrot, diced onion and chopped beef or lamb (corned beef works very well. season with salt and pepper to taste. Once boiled togeather, drain and place a couple of tablespoons of the mixture in the contre of the rolled-out dough. bring the edges togeather and pinch the top to secure, to make a half-mooned shape parcel and place on a tray in the oven after glazing them with whisked egg yoke. These pasties are a throw-back to years gone by when industrial workers such as miners and the like would take their home-made lunch to work with them and a pasty was an ideal meal to eat when at their work station deep underground etc. The Cornish Pasty was devloped in cornwall by Tin miners wives.

 You probly only saw about 5% of our country Cathy but I'm glad you enjoyed it, now come 'up North' and see the beauteful part of it.

Thanks Ruth and Michael. I forgot Michael, where up north? I hope to one day get there and even into Scotland. I just have to keep coming back. I hope one day I can just move there. Thanks for the history too. I love stories like that.

I brought back a cookbook with recipes for the cornish pasty, scotch eggs and cottage pie. I can't wait to make them for my parents. Was funny how we couldn't find the Cornish Pasty in Northamptonshire. We had looked in Rushen. But there are lots of other places that might have them. Must of just been my luck that day.  

I think I meant sheep organs?? is that only in Scotland?Is it safe to eat beef there Michael? When we were in Ireland one year it was during the time of the mad cow dz and that kinda put a damper on the beef didnt stop my husband of course but just wondering if you all ever have trouble with that,, Thank goodness no other organs,,LOL Tanks!!

Hey we do have some crazy's around here that eat pickled pig feet and tail and ears!!!YUK!!!! That is so sick!

Anywhere Cath, depends on your taste, best to come in the summer months though, although that again depends on what you want. I live in north Lancashire but theres fantastic scenery everywhere, the Peak district, Lake District, Lancashire Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Northumberland, and over the border into Scotland. I dont think you can go wrong, look at the places on POE. You can fly direct from the states to Manchester International airport, every thing that Heathrow has but less stressful (and less expensive). good luck!

Debbie following the second World war, a lot of American GI's went home and told their famlies that we Brits eat lots of strange food and this has been wrongly passed down through generations of americans. The fact is, at the time of  the war, because we are an island and we initialy stood alone against Hitlers Europe, we had to be self sufficiant and survive on the food we grew and farmed ourselves, this was provided by the female and elderly whilst our young men were away defending democracy with their lives. After a couple of years America joined us and we were able to get food from America and Canada, using the North Atlantic Convoys who were constantly attacked by German U-boats. Many, many merchant sailors from both our countries lost their lives this way. We made use of what food was available and food was rationed to make it fair, everyone getting the same. Since then we have come a long way and most of the top chefs in the world today are British. We have never had food shortages of any kind since the ealy 50's.     Scares, like foot & mouth, Mad-cow disease are discovered occasionally because we have such high standards of farming and regulation.  Have no worries what-so-ever about eating our food. Please, please have no worries about what you eat, other than the safegards you use at home.

I hope this has eased your worries over food safety, I'd be worried to eat at Mc Donalds though lol.