One of the nicest (and probably most enduring) ways to celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee: create a new sandwich filling.

Coronation chicken is a staple on the menu of many lunch-bars round the world, apparently being served at the Queen's Coronation lunch in 1953. It's definately been successful in that, as well as being quite delicious on a bap or between a couple of slices of bread, it's been a daily reminder of the Queen's coronation for the last fifty years.
How fitting then that someone's taken the initiative and decided that now would be the right time to update it by producing a recipe for Jubilee Chicken (apparently it has a sort of Cajun taste).

I for one hope that it's a successful addition to the range of luncheon fillings.

Wales must have the highest number of castles per square inch of anywhere in the world! Just spent a few days travelling round Pembrokeshire with Kate, and we managed to see many, many castles (best for my buck were probably the ones at Manorbier and Pembroke), ate lots of fish and chips, and did a bit of walking along the coast path.

About the only thing we didn't manage to sort out was seeing some puffins on Skomer island, instead having to make do with a puffin tea-towel. The south Pembrokeshire coast in particular was very beautiful, with a number of very pleasant coastal villages (almost every one possessing the obligatory castle) and beaches containing real sand! (a rarity during my travels in the UK).


Some of the memories of the trip include managing to get sun-burnt (in the UK, in May even!), staying in a wonderul old vicarage in Manorbier, avoiding the ravens nesting in the trees above the town square at St Davids, visiting Dylan Thomas' cottage in Laugharne and marvelling at the views that he and his family had over the estuary, and playing a grinding game of scrabble in the pub during which we made aquaintance with a couple of fun gay guys (both full of inuendo!) and their dog Nelson.