A lunch to remember on the 5th of November

Monday's promotional lunch at Plaisterers' Hall couldn't have fallen on a better date; we love all things toasted, caramelised and topped with crackle candy, so writing a menu for bonfire night appealed to all of our senses.

Here is a sneak peak at some of the bonfire beauties.

canapés

smoked salmon galette

with horseradish pannacotta and toasted dill seeds

worcestershire parma ham and brioche soldiers

with hollandaise dip

beetroot millefeuille

with rosemary scented goats cheese

main course

fillet of british beef

with chard and cashel blue bread and butter pudding, buttered spinach, glazed baby beetroot and carrots and a roasted garlic cream

and (the very tweeted) dessert

bonfire sundae

with baked apple ice cream, beetroot chocolate brownie, pumpkin marshmallow, caramelised nuts, cinder toffee sauce and fondant flames

The afternoon was finished off with our bonfire pick & mix to take-away; hot toddy jellies, sweet potato and maple pecan marshmallow lollipops, spiced orange brownies and treacle toffee.

Out and about with the create kitchen

We decided recently to give some of our chefs a camera to document a week in their chef shoes...

We have left out the blurry shots and all the (very artistic) self portraits, and here is a selection...

Monday
Ladies who like to lunch with a view, at OXO2 
salcombe bay crab, chilli beignet & butternut squash bisque | chocolate and passionfruit parfait

 Tuesday  
 Antipasti platters at the Levi's Launch Party

Wednesday

Awards Dinner for 600 at Old Billingsgate 

spiced guinea fowl & cauliflower terrine | blood orange soufflé with cornflake ice cream

Thursday
Canapés for 200 guests at One Marylebone
roasted chicken and bread sauce beignet | cassis macaroon with freeze dried brambles

Friday
Cooking in the dark with the Crown Jewels at HM Tower of London
fig with goats cheese panna cotta and black fig wafer

Saturday
Wedding food stations
beetroot cured salmon and potted crab station | petit fours pick & mix station

Look what we found……

We always get excited when we find a new supplier whether it be for canapé kit, tableware or food.

Here are a few of our kitchen and design team favourites which are exploring the create 2012 trend of “literal British food”.

My new best friends

THE AMAZING CANON AND CANON

cannonandcannon.com

Specialists in the most delicious selection of British chorizo’s, parma hams and even air dried alpaca sourced from all over the UK, go and visit their stall at Borough Market. The spicy beer sticks are well worth the queue.

air dried mutton

from dorset with red cabbage remoulade, pear puree and redcurrants

Hopefully some new friends

NURTURED IN NORFOLK

nurturedinnorfolk.co.uk

Personalised cress creators. for anyone that knows create we have a love of all things cress and baby leaf related and this company funnily enough based in norfolk can grow your own bespoke mixes of cress.

rainbow trout rillete

with baby beetroot, micro sorrel, red mustard cress,  black pepper toasts and herb emulsion

TREGOTHAN TEA

tregothnan.co.uk 

The only producers of tea grown in deepest rural Cornwall ………winner.
 

Who needs friends when you have these?

Just when we thought we had seen it all the brilliant ASA have come up with these...

Yes they are exactly what you think they are…… glow in the dark pepper grinders.

Might not have any friends left, I spend so much time on these websites…..

 Once translated into English this website has become our go too page to cure our obsessions for all things that verge on the impossible, candyfloss pasties being one of them and anything miniature and made out of plastic, we love that it is almost unbreakable, even the most heavy handed chef can’t break it.

http://www.100x100chef.com/online/index.php/en

Beautiful ingredients especially the Himalayan salt plates

http://www.souschef.co.uk/

Full of some very cool kit, currently obsessing over mini sardine tins, mini pint glasses for our “pint of prawns canapé”  and plastic egg shells for our “ham and brioche soldiers with hollandaise dip”

http://www.infusions4chefs.co.uk