Cooking for Experts
A couple with Syrian heritage on one side had decided to concentrate their budget on food, saving thousands of pounds on a venue by using the Hartest Institute. A lovely building in a really pretty village. Like a few other village halls in Suffolk which are beautiful inside and out…
Read MoreCoping with extreme conditions
A Wedding on the lawns of a fine grade 1 listed family house near Bury St Edmunds. We prepared a complicated special diet menu using their large rustic kitchen, scullery and other rooms. There were a lot of Gluten intolerant, dairy free and vegan guests. So the menu was a…
Read MoreAugust musical wedding at Alpheton Barn
Another large wedding of around 150 guests. The couple were young talented musicians who did want any red meat on thier day. They lived near and ate regularly at Morritos in London. Having been to Morros a few times we needed to visit Morritos as the clients loved their mezze.…
Read MoreMarquee wedding end of July
A couple with very specific allergies. The groom was GF and did not eat cheese. A sister of the bride was lactose intolerant. The mother of the Bride was allergic to coriander ( even in Gin!) A sister was severely allergic to chilli, and garlic was a problem as…
Read MoreMid July Wedding
Mid July Ex professional chef now living in Australia with some very precise ideas that I could learn from wanted a very relaxed wedding day based around lots of eating and not too much drinking. One of the early inspirations for us to research beer can chicken. They were Staying…
Read MoreWe love it when clients tell us what they want to eat
At the end of June we catered at The Suffolk Barn in Hawstead. The couple were both massive fresh food foodies with hundreds of English and Polish ideas, which after several meetigns we eventually whittled down to a very client driven menu. I had always been reluctant to serve goats…
Read MoreMaking Barrel BBQS
I needed to get two more large oil drum BBQs for this season for a large wedding in June my usual supplier up north did not have any so I need to make them my self having been quoted ludicrous amounts of money by other suppliers Getting the barrels was…
Read MoreElegant Garden Party
We started the season late last year with no May weddings and it’s the first year we have not used local asparagus! Our first large event was a large birthday party for a university research professor with a lot of intellectual friends for whom food and dancing to good music…
Read MoreWe have returned to the UK from St Vincent and the Grenadines
After a much smoother but longer passage we arrived after 15 days at sea in St Vincent our first time to the Caribbean. We still had fresh food on arrival: white cabbages, sweet potatoes apples, green and red tomatoes and with the seas much calmer we did a lot of…
Read MoreFood on our sailing trip to Cape Verde
The fresh food I had planned was out of the question due to the weather, so we maInly ate the round passage food we had prepared in Las Palmas (in case of the unlikely event, we were told, of it “being too rough to chop and onion!” ). This was…
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