Afternoon Tea Sunday 9 June 2013

What could be better than kicking off the long awaited summer with a seriously delectable afternoon tea?  I am honoured to have some returning guests for this event as well as some that have been on my waiting list for some time and have struck lucky at last, beating...

Lunch Saturday 27 April 2013

During the spring of every year, there is an annual pilgrimage to my door by a group of very dear friends.  This was the menu to toast the occasion.  I hope the tradition will continue as there’s always something special about these times together. Lunch Menu 27...

Festive lunch menu for Saturday 15 December

Here is my seasonal lunch menu for this year.  As you will see, turkey isn’t a feature!  However, Stilton makes an appearance in a very delicious, creamy soup and of course there is  Christmas pudding.  This pudding is a hand me down through a few generations in...

A Christmas Afternoon Tea 8 December 2012

Here we are again with Christmas just round the corner; it seems like just a few weeks ago I was putting together last year’s seasonal tea!  So what’s on the menu?  Two seasonal ‘old timers’: my wonderfully moist Christmas cake that has been...

Afternoon tea Sunday 11 November 2012

Some classics on this menu for afternoon tea – sticky ginger cake and lemon meringue pie.  Ginger Parkin might have been a more typical Yorkshire choice for this time of year you might say however I’m not a big fan of it.  I love it’s ‘sticky...