This weekend we had a tasting for a lovely couple who are getting married this summer. We met up with them over a coffee and chatted with them about what they had in mind for their wedding day. They really enjoy visiting Italy and eating the local foods and requested that we try and capture that in the wedding menu. We sat down and wrote a bespoke menu for the two of them and here is what we came up with:
Starter:
Glazed figs, with basil mascarpone, parma ham, parma ham crisps, rosemary pizza bread crisps, wild rocket and basil oil.
Main:
Family service style:
6 hour cooked rosemary and garlic lamb shoulder
with sides of:
panzanella salad
radicchio, pine nut, pear and gorgonzola salad
beetroot carpaccio with toasted walnuts and caper vinaigrette
Dessert:
Honey and vanilla roast peaches with zabaglione, candied fruit biscotti and pistachio crumb
Kid’s choice for main:
Focaccia pizza
Here’s a photo we snapped of the starter:
After the tasting was finished, we were thrilled that they had nothing whatsoever to change about the menu and they said we’d nailed the brief perfectly. Their only suggestion was that the kids would spend their time picking the vegetables, and fresh herbs off of their pizzas, so best keep the pizzas simple. I think we can deal with that!
Later, we went down to Snettisham beach for a sunset walk. As we made our way down the (very chilly!) beach we spotted a huge colony of oystercatchers, there must have been at least 300 of them all sitting looking towards the sunset on the water’s edge. Jackson spooked them by walking towards them and we got this picture.
We couldn’t help but see it as a good omen for what lies ahead in 2015!
Oystercatcher Catering 