Food and Drink in the British Isles

Britain's restaurants offer a wide variety of cuisine from around the world, but why not try some local food during your holiday villa. Traditional British food often includes a good plain cooking with fresh local ingredients and are often found in pubs or restaurants that offer lighter versions of old favorites. Roast beef served with Yorkshire pudding and local specialties, such as Lincolnshire or Cumberland pork sausages can be found on most menus. In the north of the Black pudding made ​​with offal is popular and lamb and chicken dishes are on many menus, with a hearty meat pies and homemade soups. Meals are usually served with chips, mash, boiled or baked potatoes and a good selection of vegetables. Whitbyon east coast is famous for its crabs and the southeastern coast is famous for its mussels, whelks, cockles and jellied eels. In the UK you are never far from the fish and chip shop battered cod or haddock with chips, sprinkle with salt and vinegar. Traditional puddings include fruit decay, apple pie or sponge pudding is usually served with cream. Afternoon tea is still popular and you will find a good selection of cakes, scones, jam and cream and sandwiches on the menu teashop. Cheese is a regional specialty,. Look out for the different types of delicatessens and farmers markets

There are some excellent white wines, award-winning English, such as those produced by the Three Choirs in Gloucestershire and Wickham in Hampshire.While enjoy your holiday Self Catering UK you will find a good selection of real August has served in many pubs, watch out for local micro-brewery. Treasures such as banks, Holdens and Highgate is commonly found in the Midlands. Pale Ales are more popular and Timothy Taylor, Adnams, Shepherd Neame and Marston is a good example. Cider is still popular especially in the south-west England as Thatcher in Somerset.

in Scotland look to traditional foods such as haggis (spiced sheep's innards and spices) is usually served with tatties (potatoes) and neeps (mashed turnip). Venison and partridge are popular dishes such as stovies, a mixture of potatoes, onions and cooked in beef dripping. Scotch broth is made from mutton or beef stock, pearled barley, carrots and leeks, a cock-a-leekie soup of chicken, rice, leeks and prunes cooked in a twist. Smoked fish dishes such as kippers, salmon and Arbroath Smokies (smoked haddock) can often be found. Finally, beware of delicious chowder as a dish called Cullen skink of smoked haddock, mashed potatoes and milk. Scotland is also famous for its many whiskey distilleries and a few too many beers, such as Deuchars and Caledonian.

Traditional dishes in Wales include Welsh lamb hot pot and cawl (meat stew with potatoes and vegetables). Fish and other popular dishes such as Welsh rarebit (melted cheese on toast) bread and basin of oatmeal and seaweed. There are many local cheeses to sample, such as Caerphilly and Pencarreg. Try Bara Brith, the type of tea, bread and Welsh cakes, scones cooked on a flat pan. Watch out for eating establishments belonging to the Taste of Wales (Cymru Blas y) is usually a sign of good food and beer at the end of one attempt, the brain and Felinfoel.

in Northern Ireland to try the local cheeses, oysters and Guinness, Irish stew and drisheen (black pudding). Watch out for soda bread, yeast marriage (tea bread) and potato bread and finish the evening with an old Bushmills whiskey.

If you visit the Channel Islands, self catering in Guernsey and Jersey self catering, then you will find an abundance of fresh fish, dairy products and fresh local seasonal produce on the menu. Look out for delicious local produce is known as the protection of vegetables sold on the street through the islands. Enjoy!