Here we are, the final offering before we head west into the wilds of Wales. It’s been a great pleasure cooking for everyone over the last four months and many thanks for all the feedback, that certainly makes it worthwhile.
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Tis the holiday season and we’re shortly to head off to Pembrokeshire for, to my mind, a well earned rest. We’ll be hunkered down on the quayside, Lower Town, Fishguard along with a host of family and friends.
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New Charcoal Smoked Aubergine Curry recipe from Meera Sodha’s book ‘Fresh India’, The book fell open at this recipe, the picture looked totally alluring and the technique, although simple, involves hot charcoal, oil and smoke
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The weather looks like its brightening up, perfect for picnics and outdoor lunches. We are doing individual picnic hampers for a wedding in August, which has been fun to organise.
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Here is this week’s menu, its a cracker & we have thoroughly enjoyed testing and tasting all the dishes this week!
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The changeable weather has made choosing menus exciting. We have finally had a chance to catch up & get ahead with planning the whole of next month’s menus. The plan being to have a few options up our sleeves to bring out depending on if we are heading into heatwave or not.
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The new website works brilliantly so thank you to anyone that ordered last week!
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Thank you to everyone who has ordered using our rather old fashioned email system. As orders have grown week on week it seemed sensible to move across to an online ordering system. We hope it will make the whole process much easier for you!
Next week’s menu is going out as everyone is turning up to collect this week’s offer, so no feedback on the mezze yet but I am confident you will like it. So much so, we have decided to keep it on again for this week.
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The sun is shining, lockdown is easing, so we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to offer up some sharing dishes, tapas, mezze, call it what you will.
Read MoreKeith Floyd – ‘Far Flung Floyd’. We lost a legend when Keith died a few years ago, he’s been an inspiration to legions of chefs and a benchmark for the telly variety.
Read MoreI made up this recipe for James von Etzdorf’s 60th birthday, exactly 10 years ago today. It was an American campfire theme and I just thought ‘Blazing Saddles’.
Read MoreThis dish is from Diana Henry’s ‘Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons’. It delivers the wonderful, wafting aromas of the middle east as it comes out of the oven.
Read MoreThis recipe is from ‘The Naked Chef’ before he became the brand that is Jamie Oliver. Sweet photo’s of Jamie doing his stuff and looking about 14 years old.
Read MoreI was asked to make this dish for a beautiful family in Alvediston many years ago. Their grandfather used to cook it each summer at their family gatherings, but sadly, that year he had died, so I was asked to step up to the plate.
Read MoreBack by popular demand and for all those who missed it first time round, this delicious Diana Henry dish from ‘A Change of Appetite’ ticks most of the boxes and would convert most salivating meat eaters into pescatarians overnight.
Read MoreA lovely Moroccan dish from Claudia Roden’s ‘Arabesque’ using a fat, fresh cod supreme from Brixham, perfect for Friday fish night.
Read MoreI’m having a Rose Prince moment this week, in search of a great fish stew. ‘Kitchenella’ has delivered some lovely dishes in the past and hasn’t disappointed this time. I’m using the awesome butterbeans from ‘Brindisa’, imported from Spain
Read MoreFrom Ottolenghi – ‘Simple’ I don’t know when this book came out, I spotted it in a friend’s house in Barcelona and had to buy it, so I now have about nine Ottolenghi cook books.
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