October 21, 2016
On our way north to Cymer Abbey and the Panorama Walk north of Dolgellau, we stopped off at a roadside stand I kept passing on the A493 at speeds too high to feel comfortable pulling over quickly. But this time there was no one else on the road and we were prepared for the turn, and there was plenty of space to wait on the side road without getting run over by traffic.
The 'Cil-y-Sarn' stand is rather high tech - it has a fairly permanent place to put change and coins, and - thieves beware - the stand is watched over by video. Seriously, why would you steal from a farm stand in the first place? What's wrong with you?
Anyway, thrilled to be at the stand I'd driven past so many times, I picked up a half dozen free range eggs of varying sizes (one of which looked like it might contain Godzilla's Welsh cousin), and P picked out the Seville Orange & Clementine Marmalade. Most of the other marmalades had some spice in them, which of course I would have loved but might have offended P's delicate palate.
We of course sampled them at the first opportunity, and rather than containing Godzilla's cousin, it turns out Gargantua the Egg actually had two yolks. Two delicious, thick, creamy yolks that I wish I were still eating right now. P made crepes with some of the others, and they came out very sturdy - I've since decided that we need to fix our crepe recipe to account for the consistency of these eggs - everything you make with them comes out thicker and creamier. Seriously, if it isn't one thing, it's another. :)
In any case, the crepes were very tasty, and the marmalade had a nice amount of real orange rind in it to make it interesting.
Altogether even though they cost a bit more than the normal roadside stand eggs, I feel like the size of Godzilla justified the price.
Plus, did I mention these were eggs from a roadstand? How awesome is that? For real!
