Family Parties and Occasions

Party catering for special occasions:

• Bowl food
• Buffet cold meats and fish served with a choice of salads and breads
• Finger buffet

Ideas for Bowl Food

• Shell fish pasta with prawn bisque
• Shrimp salad and Thousand Island dressing
• Pork stroganoff with vegetable savoury rice
• Sweet and sour chicken with savoury rice
• Spicy meat balls with tomato pasta
• Chicken and smoked bacon carbonara
• Mushroom stroganoff with vegetable rice
• Roasted vegetable, garlic and pine nut pasta
• Gluten free pasta is available
• Lancashire hot pot, pickled red cabbage, crusty bread
• Rich beef lasagne, dressed mixed salad, garlic bread
• Creamy chicken & leek puff pastry pie and new potatoes
• Beef stroganoff, fluffy rice, cool yoghurt dressing

Cold Buffets
Appetisers

• Chicken liver paté, pear chutney and soda bread
• Ham hock terrine with homemade piccalilli and crostini
• Prawn and avocado pot with Thousand Island dressing

Mains
Chef to carve

• Whole dressed salmon
• Dressed turkey with cumquat and cranberry sauce
• Dressed roast beef (cooked to your preference)
• Dressed sugar baked gammon
• Sweet chilli prawns
• Mussels Provençal
• Shrimp with penne, pesto, pancetta

Choose from salad selection

• Pasta and green bean salad
• Green salad: mixed green leaf with cucumber, green pepper, spring onion, asparagus (what is in season) (V) (G)
• Mixed salad: lettuce, cherry tomato, cucumber, red onion carrot, cress, rocket, croutons (V) (G)
• Roasted cherry tomatoes in garlic and thyme (V) (G)
• Roasted vegetable salad (V) (G)
• Sweet and sour slaw (V) (G)
• Apple, cranberry and almond coleslaw
• Bulgur wheat salad
• Broad bean, cucumber and parsley with yoghurt and mint
• Roasted beets with peppers, shaved parmesan and local rapeseed oil
• Salads can made to your dietary requirements

Desserts

• Strawberry Charlotte russe
• Strawberry and balsamic cheesecake
• Lemon posset
• Chocolate tart with salted caramel vanilla ice cream

Hot Buffets

• Pan-fried sea bass, lemon oil
• Grilled salmon with a saffron sauce
• Mushroom tortellini in a parmesan sauce and finished with roasted cherry tomatoes
• Sauté chicken breast, roasted baby onion, bacon and tarragon, served in white wine jus
• Pan-fried chicken breast in a lemon sauce
• Grilled lamb cutlets with caramelised onion and red wine sauce
• Vegetable and goats cheese Wellington
• Aubergine paupiette filled with roasted pepper, onion and feta, baked in a tomato and parmesan sauce

  Served with a choice of seasonal vegetables

  • Green beans and baby carrots
  • Buttered broccoli, cauliflower and carrots
  • Chantenay carrots and mange tout
  • Savoury noodles
  • Garlic roasted potatoes
  • Buttered new potatoes

Desserts

• Cold lemon soufflé with vanilla ice cream
• Trio of apple (mini soufflé, caramelised apple brûlée and baby apple crumble and custard)
• Vanilla pannacotta and summer berries

Fork buffet ideas

• Poached salmon with lemon mayonnaise
• Supreme of lemon chicken with red pepper chutney
• Roast beef with horseradish
• Sugar baked ham with Dijon mustard
• Game pie with red currant compote
• Mediterranean quiche
• Swiss potato salad
• Green mixed leaf salad
• Ratatouille pasta salad
• Traditional coleslaw
• Many more salads of your choice which can made to your dietary requirements
• A selection of fresh bread rolls

Finger Buffet
Please select your choices from the following items:

• Selection of Sandwiches (see the Afternoon Teas page for more details)
• Vegetable crudités with assorted dips
• Bread sticks with houmous
• Goujons of plaice with citrus mayonnaise
• Mini fish and chips served with tartare sauce
• Thai fishcake with sweet chilli dip
• Filo wrapped king prawns
• Homemade sausage rolls
• Spicy chicken drumsticks
• Barbeque chicken wings
• Chicken satay with peanut dip
• Grilled chicken skewers in lemon & coriander marinade
• Cocktail sausages in honey & sesame seeds
• Mini vegetable kebabs
• Selection mini vegetable samosas
• Spring rolls with sweet chilli dips
• Onion bhajis with minty yoghurt dip
• Selection of mini pizzas
• Roasted vegetable and goats cheese tarts
• Deep fried breaded mushrooms with blue cheese dip
• Individual quiches
• Garlic bread
• Mini baked potatoes with sour cream and chives
• Cajun potato wedges with sour cream
• Cheese scones

Mini Dessert Selection

• Apple and vanilla soufflé
• Lemon and raspberry posset (G)
• Strawberry and balsamic cheese cake
• Mini spiced apple muffins
• Elderflower and lime pot

Dietary requirements catered for: gluten free (G), dairy free (D), vegetarian (V) and vegan (VG)

All menus are individual and can be tailored to your requirements, tastes and budget

Please contact Clive on 01380 840912 or through the Contact form to discuss your requirements