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Bespoke Gourmet Catering for all family occasions, celebrations, Dinner parties and Picnic lunches
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I’m a freelance cook based near to the northwest town of Knutsford. I cater for a wide range of occasions from intimate dinner parties to afternoon teas, larger buffets and family events. I also produce a range of interesting jams and chutneys, and I love to make cupcakes too! For 7 years I worked as a chef in France on large converted Dutch grain barges for French Country Waterways. The barges op

erate as luxury hotels cruising on the waterways all over the French countryside. I produced everything from hearty cooked breakfasts, to fresh and healthy salad lunch buffets and elegant four course evening meals. I had full responsibility for planning my own menus and sourcing fresh, local ingredients. This was a fantastic opportunity to challenge myself with both modern innovative dishes and traditional classics using some of the best quality ingredients available. One of the important lessons I learnt whilst cooking in France was that fresh, top quality seasonal produce is an essential element in creating good food and delicious meals. The french really have a passion and pride for their food and produce, their local food markets are always brimming with an amazing array of beautiful fruit and vegetables from the region. Returning to live and work in England, it’s wonderful to see that this passion and pride is here also, along with a fantastic ability to embrace new flavours and to try unusual cuisines.

25/08/2024

Using up my abundant herbs today, for roasting drumsticks. 🪴🌿🪴🌿🪴

17/08/2024

“What are we having to eat tonight?”

Me - I’ve got some leftovers…

Finished with a balsamic drizzle and one of my homegrown tomatoes…

17/08/2024

You eat with your eyes first.

Colourful and bright.

Grazing platter packed with flavour too.

15/08/2024

Roasted veggie pasta sauce incoming.

PS those are MY tomatoes!!! 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅😊♥️🎉

EDIT - my own home grown ones, to avoid confusion. 🤪

13/08/2024

Summer holiday lunches.

Pizza from a quick flatbread.

1 cup self raising flour to 1 cup yoghurt.
May need a little more flour to stop it being too sticky. Roll out, and fry in pan on both sides. My batch made 4.
I topped this with red pesto, pizza sauce, mozzarella and a little cheddar.

It passes the hungry boy test.

12/08/2024

Home produce. ♥️🍅🫛

If I dig up some new potatoes, I’ve got all the makings of a salad nicoise. 😊

30/07/2024

Salads whilst the sun shines…

29/07/2024

Classic rich chocolate brownies.

Always a crowd pleaser.

Some soft whipped cream and summer berry coulis and enjoy…

28/07/2024

Ridiculously excited to harvest these!
My family will tell you so. 🫛🫛🫛🥔🥔🥔♥️♥️♥️

21/07/2024

Yoghurt and oat bread with sesame, pumpkin and sunflower seeds.

Sliced thinly spread with salted butter or drizzled with honey or a hunk of cheese.

15/07/2024

How do you like your mash??

I made mash topped chicken and bacon pie last night.

The weather made me do it!

My mash is heavy in butter, I added more after this pic 🤪, lots of black pepper and well seasoned with salt.

What’s better than a really good mash??!

10/07/2024

Cupcakes to finish a light summery lunch, I know, I know… 😬 ☔️ ☔️

Egg and cress and coronation chicken finger sandwiches
Smoked salmon blinis with horseradish creme fraiche, dill and lemon zest
Teeny prawn cocktails in crunchy pastry cups
Honey and mustard glazed chipolatas
Tomato, feta, spring onion and mint salad

Scones with jam and clotted cream

Strawberries and cream

And just a teeny cupcake to follow…

03/07/2024

Double Mess… 🍓🫐🍓🫐🍓🫐🍓

30/06/2024

Lemon and almond cake filled with lemon curd and iced with white chocolate buttercream topped with caramelised lemon slices and blackberries. And my herbs make an appearance! Some sprigs of marjoram and flowering thyme.

And gluten free too!

30/06/2024

Moroccan Dips -

Labneh, drained Greek yoghurt topped with spiced roasted cherry tomatoes and black sesame seeds.
Houmous topped with spiced coriander lamb mince and pomegranate.
Feta and spinach dip topped with crunchy chickpeas, feta and mint.
Beetroot and mint dip, pomegranate and mint.
Babaganoush with caramelised roasted aubergine and sesame.

There were flatbreads to go with and a herbed salad with almonds and red pepper dressing.

Followed by a trio of tagines, lamb with apricots, chicken with prunes and pumpkin, pepper and spinach. Minted and fruited cous cous and herbed white and wild rice.

This is one of my most popular menus at the moment, it makes easy eating with bright colours and beautiful spices and herbs. And you can graze away…

20/06/2024

My herbs are going crazy!
Marjoram needs a trim. 😆
And Rosemary is totally lost at the back.
I keep my mint separate to avoid world domination 😉
And look how pretty my thymes are now they’re flowering. 😊

17/06/2024

A pretty berry and floral Victoria Sponge for a celebration birthday.
Classic flavours for the win. 😊

02/06/2024

Lemon tart with shortbread case and berries.
Classic dessert. 🍋🍓🫐🍓🫐♥️

02/06/2024

Potato latkes topped with smoked salmon, horseradish cream, chives and radish sprout.
In the evening’s setting sun. 🌅😊

01/06/2024

Gratin dauphinoise.

King of potato dishes??

Got to be up there. 👑 🥔 ♥️

26/05/2024

This weather is comfort food time.

Risotto. Yup. That’ll do.
Simple bacon, onion, peas, homemade chicken stock, parmesan, squeeze or two of lemon juice, butter. Oh and the scrapings of a container of homemade tomato, basil and veggie pasta sauce. Waste not, want not.

Quiet and content family. ♥️

25/05/2024

Back to the beautiful The Love Shack in glorious sunshine.

Fresh tomato and mozzarella salad, sprigs of basil, dressing of balsamic and basil oil, a grind of black pepper.

Flatbreads with tzatziki and houmous to go with the classic Greek moussaka.
Kids had a fresh tomato and veggies pasta sauce on spaghetti.

Then a summery fruit platter for after.

22/05/2024

Oh.

Not always smooth baking over at Cuisine By Bethany HQ!!

🤦🏻‍♀️🍳🥚🍳🥚🙄

20/05/2024

Family Sunday

BBQ time. Chicken breasts simply marinaded in lemon juice, olive oil, thyme and marjoram - it’s gone crazy in my herb garden so everything’s getting it!
Some already cooked new potatoes, again with marjoram and lemon, throw on the grill too.

A quick salad of catering leftovers! 😆 romaine lettuce with spiced crunchy chickpeas, mango and lime salsa and crumbed bacon pieces topped with mint.

All in the sunshine of the weekend. ☀️🪴
🍋☀️🪴🍋☀️🪴🍋

18/05/2024

What a beautiful place to work!
Catering at the The Love Shack on a gorgeous late spring day.

Canapés
Egg and bacon tartlets with chives
Teeny prawn cocktails In crispy cups
Smoked salmon, horseradish crème fraiche on blinis
Creamed goat cheese on rye bread topped with quick pickled rhubarb and shallots and mint
Spiced Moroccan beetroot purée on flatbreads topped with crunchy chickpeas and spiced crumbs and sesame seeds
Lime hoisin duck on cucumber with spring onion and sesame
Mini chilli lime prawn tacos with mango salsa

Teeny pavlovas
Chocolate dipped strawberries

All served in stunning surroundings.

15/05/2024

Bits and bobs from the fridge…
A little pot of already chopped shallots, a teeny bit of Moroccan red pepper dip, a lonely courgette - no one in our family likes courgette just as courgette, some swede and carrot mash from the freezer from Burns night, half a carton of passata, cherry tomatoes needing a home, the scrapings from the bottom of a tub of mascarpone from when I made tiramisu, add a bit of garlic, some homemade chicken stock, some basil from my pot growing on the kitchen sill and…
A really yum bowl of sunshine soup. And more for the freezer.

Emily Doran Pottery

10/05/2024

Orzo salad with fresh pesto dressing, homedried tomatoes, roasted artichokes and courgettes…
There was more to this meal, but no photos!
You’ll have to believe me that the lasagne, aubergine melanzane, pepper, feta and almond salad, saffron cauliflower salad with pine nuts, raisins and crisped onions, dolcelatte, red onion and walnut tart followed by tiramisu and frangipane and blackberry tart were both beautiful to look at and tasted lovely…

And I’ll try so hard to remember to take photos next time!! 🤪

06/05/2024

This cake was personal.

Happy 18th Birthday, to my lovely niece Daisy!! 🎉🌈🌺

White chocolate buttercream with jam and vanilla sponge. Some pretty edible flowers and freeze dried raspberries.

27/04/2024

Back at The Love Shack today serving grazing Italian food - bruschetta platter, caprese garlic bread, asparagus arancini followed by spaghetti carbonara, spaghetti and meatballs along with sundried tomato pizza. Then Tiramisu!

So lovely to work at this beautiful venue. 🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺

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