Head Chef, the Hood Arms in Kilve
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Paddle boards ✅
Ocean crystal clear ✅
Gorgeous other half ✅
Sunshine ✅
T**t tan ✅ 🤦♂️
Lush break away to Charlestown
one of the best places we have stayed in all our travels. Breakfast worth the visit itself. Can't wait to go back.
Really proud of what is being done here! The team are producing some awesome results and the new menu is definitely a hit already.
Managing to get a few miles in between shifts too ☀️😅
Sneaky peak, new menu incoming......
Spaces available for our Sunday Brunch
10am - 2pm
More time like this is in need with these 2
Recent trip to was just as beautiful as our first.
Visits to
All amazing
beautiful. Coastal walk to Polstreath off the track
Enjoying swim, paddles and listening to the waves. Fantasising of living here. The seaside as your breaktime walk.
Time away like this and time together 😍😍
Mixture of tools here. A few intricate tools, some that does the donkey work. Right tools for the job in hand. What is missing?
Mixture of I.O.Shen, Wusthof, Victorinox and others.
Great place on a Monday morning, or any morning probably
Dog friendly
Great breakfast
Beautiful coffee
👌👌
Beauty of a day
Punished with a few bad shots but hit 11 over. Great course and great company
So many times I see this Cafe when I pop to the shop at 7 in the morning. Finally had the chance to pop in. Adorable place in North Petherton
Have you been?
Lots of chef / cook / foodie profiles, posting the glamorous side of working in catering. It's great seeing the plates of food, the 🔪 high fives and hugs
But this is the reality of catering.
Graft
Unless you work in a fully staffed state of the art kitchen, it is the following...
It's making sure that the kitchen is maintained, that the cleaning duties are done, that your records are in check, that your food practices are safe and effective. Its managing your stock, its keeping inventive, its taking the critiques, it's missing the luxuries that your mates enjoy most evening, it's years of this. It's also much much more little things that each day can grate and grind on you over time
It is often monotonous, soul destroying, greasy, tense.
You have to be a certain type of person to stick it out for life.
But it is like no other, it is instinctive, creative, mesmerising, rewarding. You have the opportunity to create a lasting memory in someone's life, 100's of times a day. It's putting something on a plate, thinking how have I done that, then wandering how to make it even better!
To all the chefs out there, I salute you all!!!
Messy paws time
Also got to spoke to a resident near the park, they have an amazing fig tree. So much veg and fruit growing in the back gardens. Would love to be able to source from community growers.
Are you growing anything in your gardens, do you struggle to find ideas for them?
Would be happy to share tips and ideas
Staff wanted
01278 741114
[email protected]
What is your most favourite / least favourite part of being in the kitchen?
The most common words I use in the kitchen has surely got to be
'I hate pastry'. Usually with an expletif in there too...
I say it, but it is an absolute blatant lie. I love it, but wish I had more time and skill to be able to add the finesse that so many great chefs have. Pastry is art, and I'm not a very good artist.
Here we have a couple puddings and the baking of the Steak and Stilton pie that we had on our ladies and and gents lunch club. Coincidence with too apparently.
There is one pudding that I do confess to enjoy making. A Creme Brulee. Simple, so amazing when done properly.
Using Vanilla and West Country cream, along with local free range eggs. Simple (though over caramelised for the tester)
Another busy week. Another selection of excellent ingredients from all of our suppliers
supplying us with this beautiful
with their Duck Breast
Local Butchers, Fauns, with the mincemeat and bacon for the burgers
We try and use the best of what is on offer as local as we can. Keeping it seasonal, sustainable and sensational
Spring is round the corner, we cannot wait!!
I don't really have a style of cooking, but it is definitely more on the side of what is happier than healthier. Which is why when eating for myself, I have to introduce balance. I love cooking with rich foods, but I'd lose sight of my toes in no time.
Most chefs I worked with, when in the kitchen, fill their diets with 'if its' kind of meals. I have often stuffed my face with scraps, eating from a plastic jug at the end of service
Do you do the same for your job? Do you allow yourself to eat healthy, happy or convenient?
What do you do to keep healthy?
fillet salad last night, local honey, seasoning, nuts and radish for my better half and I. A couple baked slices of beetroot and sultana crisp beads too
Looking forward to making many more of these frames!!!
Last nights Valentines menu was a big success. I enjoy doing different dishes using classic techniques and different techniques. It's nice to have to think of these ideas, with input from the team and the customers, whilst enjoying some simple necessities too.
What food do you like? What event would you like to see?
Set Lunch club menu planning
New menu planning
Coffee
Flavours
Simplicity
Stay cool
Dinner
The Pork Shoulder Croquettes were excellent. The Harissa Lamb was next level 👌
The company was even better 😍
Do you have a group that meet up every so often?
Our locals have a ladies and a gents lunch club meeting once a month.
We provide a set menu and we are given a pre order.
Some of the dishes on this months menu
Curried Smoked Haddock Scotch Egg
Pan Roast Salmon Fillet, Capers, new potatoes, prawn and dill white wine, charred lemon
Roast Beechridge chicken breast, cheddar and chive potato cake, Sage and Cider cream sauce
Is your group looking for somewhere for a lunch meeting? Send an email to [email protected]
Bridgwater
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Spaces available for our Sunday Brunch 10am - 2pm
Messy paws time Also got to spoke to a resident near the park, they have an amazing fig tree. So much veg and fruit growing in the back gardens. Would love to be able to source from community growers. Are you growing anything in your gardens, do you struggle to find ideas for them? Would be happy to share tips and ideas
Stay cool
What does winter sound like to you? How does it smell, what do you see? #winter #stew #beef #venison #heritage
