I offer cocktail canapés, buffet, table service (formal or informal-family style).
My cooking draws on the Mediterranean tradition, in the broadest possible sense, but is also influenced by ideas and techniques from further afield. My menus are always tailored to the customer’s preferences and, crucially, depend on seasonal availability of fresh ingredients.
The following list is only indicative and meant to give you a sense of what I can offer. I update it regularly so do visit back. Get in touch to work out your own special menu!
Finger food
- Mini quiches (small or medium size) with:
- Caramelised red onions, mozzarella, thyme + ham
- Mushrooms, chicken, blue cheese
- Feta, roast cherry tomatoes, oregano
- Roast pumpkin, spinach, goat’s cheese
- Filo triangles with spinach, leek, dill, feta
- Bird’s nests with braised greens and whey cheese
- Puff tartlets with griddled courgette, tahini, yoghurt, feta
- Crostini with mushroom pâté and walnuts / olive pâté, marinated roast vegetables and halloumi / root vegetables with a caper and herb vinaigrette
- Mini sausage rolls with homemade lemon chutney
- Medjoul dates stuffed with anari and labneh cream, harissa and walnuts
- Roast plums with goat’s cheese and balsamico
- Polenta with wine-braised octopus
- Prawns with an avocado, orange or peach or mango, ginger, lime salsa
Starters
- Soups
- Ajo blanco (chilled almond soup)
- Gazpacho (chilled tomato soup)
- Harira
- Pumpkin, carrot, apple, ginger soup
- Homemade pasta with butter or olive oil, lemon, mint, parsley, grilled courgettes and sumac
- Pumpkin gnocchi with oyster mushrooms and butter and sage sauce
- Individual salads with griddled peaches, cheese balls with black and white sesame
seeds, radish, crisp greens, walnuts and a grapefruit vinaigrette - Roast beetroot, avocado, orange, lightly pickled radish, parsley, mint, whipped feta cheese and a citrus dressing
- Octopus with a pea and rocket purée with seaweed salad
- Scallops with leeks & lemon chilli butter
- Pearl barley “risotto” with shredded chicken or oyster mushrooms
Mains
- Fish or chicken with baked broad beans with cherry tomatoes, greens, lemon, saffron, sumac
- Spicy roast chicken with red lentils, dates, orange, coriander
- Pan-fried fillet of fish, with and almond and pepper sauce and rocket purée
- Polenta with mushroom, chestnut and shallot ragout
- Cod with roast fennel, broad beans, desiccated olives, fresh tarragon and a tomatocoulis served with roast baby potatoes
- Pan-fried sea bass with oyster mushrooms, chorizo and celeriac purée
- Monkfish poached in tomato essence with green beans, baby potatoes, and peas
Meze
- Dips
- Tyrokafteri (spicy feta dip)
- Maintanosalata (parsley dip from the island of Syros)
- Smoked aubergine dip
- Classic Hummus
- Pea and mint hummus
- Fava (yellow split peas)
- Dolmades (rice and herbs wrapped in vine leaves)
- Chickpea fritters from the island of Sifnos
- Baked “giant” butter beans with cherry tomatoes, chard, lemon, oregano and sumac
- Baked chickpeas with rosemary
- Raw courgettes with xynomyzithra (whey cheese), hazelnuts and chilli honey
- Courgette fritters with red onions and dill
- Roast aubergines, courgettes, and peppers with harissa, walnuts and pomegranate molasses
- Courgette flower tempura
- Roast cauliflower with tahini and za’atar
- Roast beetroot with yoghurt, blue cheese, and tarragon
- Creamed anari with roast cherry tomatoes and a cucumber salsa
- Mushroom, chestnut, and shallot ragout
- Baked aubergines with feta cheese
- Watermelon with halloumi, mint, walnuts and balsamico
- Griddled manouri cheese with a homemade chutney
- Beluga lentils with fennel, graviera cheese and a mountain tea vinaigrette
- Black-eyed beans, pearl couscous, tomato, spring onion with a fresh mint dressing
- Meatballs
- Fried mullet with salmoriglio sauce
- Octopus braised in vinegar
- “Bekri meze” (slow cooked pork with sausages and peppers in a spicy tomato sauce)
Desserts
- Gin & tonic cheesecake with lemon sorbet
- Chocolate cake with dates and orange blossom ice cream
- Almond arlettes with ricotta cream and caramelised apples
- Chocolate parfait with cranberries, hazelnuts and honeycomb served with ice cream
- Whey cheese and honey cake (a speciality from the Cyclades) served with ice cream
- Syrupy lemon or orange pie (as well as a variety of Greek/Mediterranean sweets)
- Fresh mango cheesecake
