Laver bread

[Maryland]

Off to Wales soon for my 'summer' holiday. Available there from fishmongers, markets and some other outlets is laver, the prepared seaweed, that makes a delicious breakfast dish when fried up with bacon, oatmeal, and I like to add some chili.
Yum.

I always bring laver back from Wales because I've only ever seen it on sale this side of the border in an eyewateringly expensive places like a certain rich people's wholefood supermarket, where it's marketed as nori - the same sea vegetable, but gussied up for consumption as a Japanese thing.

Has anybody seen laver for sale anywhere around here, and for a reasonable price? There's a slightly chichi food emporium outside Ludlow where I've seen it, packed in tiny tins and marked up a lot. Outside my price range.

The obvious thought is 'prepare your own', but that's easier said than done; you have to know your seaweed, know where it's safe to gather it, and boil it for a long time.

So, any local sources known of?

 

[Withnail]

I can't recall having seen it anywhere but that may be a case of not seeing what you're not looking for - if it is to be found anywhere in Stafford, the County Store in Mill Street is the obvious place to start.

Failing that, the food shop at Trentham would be my next port of call.

 

[Gramaisc]

I believe that it's available via mail-order.

 

[John Marwood]

 

[Gramaisc]

Making a Rod for your own back, Mr Marwood...?

 

[John Marwood]

Making a Rod for your own back, Mr Marwood...?

It's an in joke

 

[Gramaisc]

It's an in joke

Are you sure it was in?

 

[Noah]

Or possibly out. You must be joking.

 

[Gramaisc]

Well, he can't be serious.

 

[Maryland]

Balls to that sort of thing, say I.

Cheers to Gramaisc, withnail: I'll follow those suggestions. It can't be impossible to get hold of outside Cardiff market fishmongers, because I recall it being a available with a virgin trains breakfast a few years ago, when I could afford to travel on them.

 

[Gramaisc]

http://www.thefishsociety.co.uk/shop/laverbread.html

 

[Wormella]

On the basis we're a land locked country, and laverbread is made a seaweed I'd be amazed to see it anywhere local

 

[Noah]

You can buy it in tins, a bit like sardine tins, so it ought to be available anywhere, but it isn't. I stock up when we go to North Wales. Samphire turns up in Morrisons & occasionally Tescos, so why not laverbread?