Traditional Gower Breakfast – eat in or eat out

Our last blog focused on the great news that Wales will host the 2026 Worldchefs Congress & Expo 2026 with its winning theme of ‘Pasture, Passion, Plate’.

On that theme, we’re staying close to home, and offering you a traditional Gower breakfast recipe that showcases the pasture (and coast) of the Gower peninsula, the passion of our local producers and retailers, and the ease in which you can combine ingredients and plate it up.

With just 3 main ingredients, a preparation time of 5-mins and a cooking time on 15-mins (in one pot), you can enjoy this special treat and a taste of the coast in the comfort of your very own Bayview rental property.

All the ingredients are locally sourced and sold. Take a trip to the lovely north Gower estuary village of Penclawdd, famous for its cockling industry and where the cockles are sifted from the sands of the Loughor Estuary and supplied to local shops. You’ll find them fresh and readily available at the wonderful Selwyn’s Sea Food Shack www.selwynseafoods.com on the marsh at nearby Crofty, along with the fabulous laverbread (seaweed.). The cockles and laverbread and locally supplied back bacon can be found in Tuckers traditional butchers on Station Road Penclawdd too, as well as in the Victorian seaside village of Mumbles. www.tuckersbutchers.com .

Ingredients
1 large onion (finely chopped)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
4 slices of Gower back bacon (chopped)
110g cooked Penclawdd cockles
120g laverbread
Black pepper
Lemon juice

Method

1. Heat a large frying pan, add the oil and cook the onion for 3-4mins

2. Add the bacon and cook until crisp

3. Add the cockles and mix in the laverbread. Heat thoroughly and season with black pepper and the juice of a lemon

4. Sit back and enjoy it spread thickly on toast or straight off the plate.

If you don’t fancy cooking and eating in and would, like to eat out enjoy a leisurely Gower breakfast that’s been described as ‘top notch’ on Trip Adviser, again drive to Penclawdd (just 20-mins) and head for the charming Café Cariad which cooks this breakfast with love (cariad means love in Welsh) and serves it with a smile until 12 midday. www.facebook.com/cariadcafe

We look forward to welcoming you to one of our luxury holiday rental properties at Bayview, each with fantastically equipped kitchen. To discuss booking or any other query you might have, please contact Wanda and the Team who’ll be more than happy to help.

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