I just wanted to share some photos with you of our new kitchen & dining room at Fat Hen. This was recently completed at the end of last year and we finally opened the doors this April. We are offering a whole range of wild food based courses and options for bespoke bookings, private dining and a supper club. The…
It’s Tuesday and I’m on a course I’m on a wordpress course at DPN to build my new website. I’ve woken up a bit now so feel that I can concentrate….I was very tired this morning. Too many late nights and not enough sleep. I haven’t succombed to the caffeine either which is good! Hopefully the new site…
I’ve finished scoffing now until next year – check out the 6 course grand finale at the Porthminster
We’ve now come to the end of the events for 2013 (with the exception of private foraging walks). My last event was with the Porthminster beach cafe on the 18th November. Check out the 6 course tasting menu: Baked Porthminster Sough Dough with dulse seaweed butter. Dulse butter. Watercress & Alexanders Soup with cauliflower & mascarpone. Nettle & Cured Cornish…
Have you ever dropped a live lobster into a pot of boiling water? Not something I had ever wanted or ever intend to do in my life. So, when I was asked to cook a wild foraged recipe with lobster for Ben Fogle, filmed for America's Today Show, I must say, I hesitated slightly. Imagining the ASPCA (U.S equivalent to…
On the approach to Christmas my wild food activities ground to a halt and the focus changed to festive merriment. We hunkered down next to the new wood burner, with food and family in excess, celebrating in traditional Christmas fashion. All was well until Boxing Day. Having lost all but one of our ‘fox fodder’ hens (still laying but past…