We have the food and wine match tasting tomorrow evening for our gastro evening on the 1st December, so Sonya has been sourcing some lovely wild venison from Gatcombe farm in Devon. We'll be meeting with Magnus from Nothing but the Grape, our wine supplier and Jane and Amelia from the tennis section of the club (our tasters, along with Sonya, Chef Ness and Magnus)
We've been delivering sandwich platters to The hub at Kings Cross with salad (roasted vegetables) and cake (organic carrot,or banana), also to Wastewatch.
Sunday 11th we catered for the Institute of Optimum Nutrition - it was graduation day ! So, many proud parents, partners, children, plus graduates accounted for 119 adults and 19 children to feed. We provided a healthy balanced finger buffet encompassing vegetable kebabs, prawn and avocado salsa on crispy leaf, tortilla slices, marinated chicken skewers, an English cheese selection with freshly baked bread, salmon with beetroot and sour cream, wraps with mashed beans and cream cheese - spicy tuna - humus and red pepper salad, then vegan muffins, fresh fruit kebabs and chocolate brownies..................Sonya and Chef Ness prepared fresh at the venue, the salsa, the sandwiches, wraps and "put together" polenta topped with ratatouille and the salmon, beet with sour cream.
On Thursday we are catering for Locate, a film production company - a hot lunch with parsnip soup, chicken and pasta options, finishing with cake.
This weekend we're starting take aways from the lazy Sally kiosk in cherry Tree Wood - chicken dopiaza curry, chickpea and spinach curry will be our two for this weekend - a lovely takeaway for the weekend to relax and enjoy in front of Strictly or X factor or to share with friends and family and take the pressure off cooking - they'll last for three days, so any time you fancy it or even freeze it.
Sonya will be looking after the kiosk from Friday until Sunday.
On Monday we will be at the London Aquarium for their charity event - details to follow on the next blog.................
