Sample Menus

Dinner – here are some of the food items I may serve you – First I ask you what you don’t eat, and then I devise a menu that everyone can enjoy. We sit round one large table like you would at a dinner party.

dinnerSMFirst Course

      • Fresh local asparagus
      • Selection of Quiches and salad
      • A variety of salads from the garden
      • Ramekin of crab in a hot Gruyere sauce
      • Parma ham and melon
      • Smoked Trout Mousse
      • Selection of home made soups including
      • Cullen Skink
      • Various vegetarian options.

Main Course

      • English Spring Lamb with vegetables from the garden
      • Salmon on a bed of scented Thai rice 
with spring onions and snap peas
      • Sea bass or sea bream with ratatouille and sweet potatoes
      • British roast beef with all the trimmings
      • Roast Duck in a plum or orange sauce with Dauphinoise potatoes and seasonal vegetables from the garden
      • Chicken with sumac and zatar, new potatoes 
and buttered carrots
      • Coq au Vin with baked potatoes and seasonal vegetables
      • Chicken with tarragon, mushrooms, onions, white wine and cream, with garden vegetables
      • Black pasta with prawns, red peppers, lemon, parmesan and parsley dressing, and other pasta dishes
      • Various vegetarian options
rasberry fool

Raspberry Fool

 

Puddings

      • Chocolate Mousse with berries
      • Rhubarb/apple crumble with home made ice cream
      • Pavlova with a selection of fresh berries
      • Nectarines in sweet white wine with lavender
      • Runny chocolate gateau
      • Gooseberry/Raspberry/Strawberry Fool,
      • Chocolate or toffee roulade served with a raspberry coulis and fresh fruit
      • And many others

 

Fine English Cheese Board

            • Cheese Board

              Cheese Board

              Choose from; Quick’s or MacFadden’s Cheddar, Cerney’s Goats Cheese, Somerset or Warwickshire Brie,  Double Gloucester, Red Leicester, English Stilton, Shropshire Blue, Oxford Blue, Worcester Gold, Lancashire and many  local cheeses

 

Coffee or Tea and Chocolates

 

Breakfast 

          • a hearty Warwickshire breakfast

            a hearty Warwickshire breakfast

            Start with a glass of orange juice from real fruit, squeezed by hand just before you drink it, home made muesli or cereals, or berries from the garden in Summer with organic honey yogurt.

          • This may be followed by a choice of eggs, bacon, sausages, tomatoes, and mushrooms, baked beans, black pudding, and hash browns. Smoked salmon, kippers 
and kedgeree should be ordered in advance.
          • Finally there is plenty of toast with a good selection of home made jams and marmalades, and of course, 
the coffee and tea of your choice.