This past Saturday, for the annual Hope Street Feast, we thought we would contribute lusciousness to the theme The Big Nosh. We set up our stall and served that great national crowd pleaser the ‘clotted cream and jam stuffed scone’. MMMMmmmmm, if we say so ourselves they were utterly luvverly, but they would be because our Bernie made them. 

Our delightful duo Howard and Maria did not stop all day from the first batch till the last, ‘it was like selling hot cakes’ said an exhausted finely sugar dusted Howard.  We hope we introduced a lot of people to the Afternoon Tea at TLCW (9.50 per head, 3pm – 5pm daily, book to make someone happy), it really is a lovely little social event, special and relaxing, delicious and filling.  Look out for our Christmas themed Afternoon tea, we are thinking mince pies, brandy butter and icing on the cake or was that robin on the log? 

P.S.  Anyone wanting a master class in Bunting, just call.  

As part of National Tackling Drugs Week, I recently judged a competition between 3 catering trainees from Alternatives (Lighthouse Projects Training and Education Programme) and 3 full-time catering students from Liverpool Community College.   

The students’ task was to produce a 3 course ‘fine dining’ menu consisting of a starter, main course and dessert.  The Alternatives courses were; “With All My Heart and Sole”, “Italian Sunday Lunch”, and “Sweet Clarice Cliffe”.  The standard of composition and technique demonstrated by both teams was really impressive, with a few tweaks the “Italian Sunday Lunch” could be good enough to serve in The London Carriage works!  

Although the Alternatives were pipped at the post by the team from LCC, it’s really good to hear that one member is now progressing onto a full-time catering course, whilst the other two are continuing their development with Alternatives.