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Dear All

Hello

I am very sorry this is late.

Hope you enjoyed the day.

A very happy St David's day. <3


Take gentle care
Very best wishes and love
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

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Hope you have all had a lovely Saint David's Day. I went up to the Midway Hospital for Mental Health, as I do every Tuesday, and one of the student nurses there today, is from Carmarthenshire, she is doing her degree in Psychiatric Nursing in Nottingham University, and she told me that I am the first Welsh person she has met since starting her course. So I sat with her for a while and had a good chat. She told me that when she got home from work she was going to make herself some cawl. It was lovely meeting her, especially as it was Saint David's Day too.

Love, Sallie. xx <3 <3

Welsh lamb and rosemary stuffed leeks.
Ingredients:

225g (8oz) lean Welsh lamb mince

3 large leeks, washed and cut into 5cm/2" pieces and remove tough outer layers

5ml (1 tsp) vegetable oil

1 sprig fresh rosemary, leaves removed and finely chopped

5ml (1 tsp) dried cumin

5ml (1 tsp) cumin seeds

150ml (¼pt) lamb stock

15ml (1 tbsp) tomato purée

200ml approx small can chopped tomatoes (or ½ a large can)

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to Gas mark 4, 180°C, 350°F.

2. Take each leek piece and using the end of a wooden spoon push out the light coloured centre layers of the leek, leaving a small area in the centre of the leek for stuffing.

3. Reserve the leek layers and finely chop.

4. Place the whole leek pieces ‘end on' into a deep gratin type dish and prepare the mince mixture.

5. Heat the oil in a large pan and add the lamb mince and brown. Add the rosemary, cumin and cumin seeds, cook for 1-2 minutes.
Add stock, purée and canned tomatoes. Bring to the boil.

6. Carefully spoon mince mixture into the leek centres (you may need to push it down using the end of a wooden spoon). Any remaining mince mixture can be spooned around the edge of the dish.

7. Cover with foil and bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes - remove and check that outer layers of leek are tender (some ‘tougher' leeks may need slightly longer cooking). Serve with spiced rice and extra green vegetables.


Happy St.Davids Day To You All
Shaun

Hope everyone has had a Happy St David's day.

I have been to an afternoon tea in village church with some wonderful children from the village school reciting Welsh poetry before the heat for competition to go to the eisteddfod ..they were very confident ,apart from one little girl who forgot her words and broke down in tears....awww..
We then had some older children who are going off to Madagascar to help bring fresh water pumps etc to the area. .They will be living rough for 16 days,working in an orphanage ,eating only local food etc...it is funded by themselves and they have had to earn most of the money themselves....very nice afternoon...and the weather was quite good.... :-) :-)

Happy St David's Day everyone, and a glorious one here in North Wales, just saying Ann :-D :-D

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"Talk tidy""!

Happy St David's Day to all.

I have vases filled with daffodils in the kitchen, lounge and hall. Just as I remember my Mum did on this very special day. Dad would wear a tiny leek in his buttonhole too.

Happy St David's Day to all from a wet and windy Cardiff <3 <3 <3

Happy St David's Day :-)

Happy St David's Day to all <3 <3

Happy St David's day to all Welsh friends on here. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Happy St David's Day to everyone.

May daffodils fill your hearts with cheer. <3

Mary Edwards and family, God bless you all. <3

Happy St.David's Day to everyone. <3 :-D :-D :-D

Pat - I'm a Lloyd descendant as well. Mine are from Pembrokeshire.

Happy St David's Day to all our Welsh friends.

My daughter's BF is 30 today and his middle name of course, is... David.

(Just 18 days to go until he becomes ......my son in law!)

HAPPY ST DAVID'S DAY TO ALL.

Slightly watered down now, but my forebears were Ives, Whitfield and Morgan!!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kUnCwV3AYE

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus

Happy St Davids day to all ...... :-D <3 <3

Happy St David's Day to all the Welsh on the boards and to those like me(nee Lloyd) who are descendants of the Welsh.

:-) <3

Dydd Gwyl Dewi. Hapus <3 To all Barbra <3

Hiya Shaunnie :-D :-D <3

Here's a recipe for

TEISEN LAP (Cake on a Plate)

As sampled by Prince Charles!

INGREDIENTS:

8oz Self-Raising Flour
4oz Butter
6oz Castor Sugar
6oz Sultanas
3 eggs
3tbs Buttermilk

METHOD:
Line a dinner plate with baking parchment.
Preheat oven to 165 degrees Celsius.
Rub the BUTTER into the FLOUR until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
Stir in the SUGAR and SULTANAS.
Add the lightly beaten EGGS with the BUTTERMILK until mixture is of soft dropping consistency.

Bake for about 50 minutes.

Serve warm for afternoon tea.