A Late Summer Lunch

Last weekend was filled with nervous excitement for our return to catering for more than just our family and friends with a fabulous Christening party. 

One of the major things we have learned to date is not to make a menu or logistics unnecessarily complicated and to let premium quality ingredients and our personalitites shine through. With this in mind and working with like-minded parents (their beautiful daughter is just weeks older than our new addition) we offered a selection beautiful oak boards filled with delicious meat, fish and cheese all served up with jars of flavoursome hummous, pates, our classic chutneys, crunchy green salad and Herbies baguettes. For pudding, we made vast meringues and smashed them together with sweet Fife strawberries and cream individual Eton or "Martha's Mess" as we renamed it in honour of the little lady's special day.

 Rosemary hummus in the making.

 Ready to go.

 Strathdon blue mousse.

 Mackerel soon to be pated.

 Spiced and roasted root vegetables for the ultimate cous cous.

 

The Ultimate cous cous.

 Roasted vegetables.

 Prawn, feta cucumber and mint skewers.

 

Labels.

 Jars of Martha's Mess.

 

The boards taking shape.

 Blue skies and balloons.

Waiting for guests.

 For carnivores.

 For vegetarians.

 Sweetcorn pickle hiding behind a stack of roasted vegetables.

 Sun dried tomatoes, grissini, roasted veg, rosemary and Moroccan spiced hummus.

Hot smoked salmon with dill.

 Super smoked salmon pate and rye bread.

 Cold smoked salmon with fennel and smoked mackerel pate.

 Baguettes.