National Vegetarian week has inspired us to think a lot about how veggie friendly we are as bakers and caterers and we’d like to share this with you.
Beetroot and chard quiches
We’re both interested in vegetarian food. Lynne is a committed veggie and Becky is a pescatarian with occasional lapses! For us veggie food can be the star of the show not just an afterthought. Especially when using fresh, local and seasonal ingredients which we pride ourselves in doing. We don’t advertise ourselves as vegetarian caterers but veggie guests are always delighted with what we usually have on offer. Lunch, dinner or afternoon tea menus will often include seasonal veggie quiches such as: wild garlic and mushroom; spinach and feta; beetroot and goat’s cheese. We also do a fabulous frittata with eggs, potatoes, onions and home grown herbs or seasonal veggies such as rainbow chard or french beans.
savoury cakes- ok some have smoked salmon on but most are veggie!
We do like to be as adventurous as our clients desire and do a splendid range of savoury cakes such as our: fig, walnut and goats cheese loaf cake; cheese and herb muffins and olive and pesto cup cakes. We love foraging and make our own wild garlic pesto when it’s wild garlic season (just coming to an end now).
Vegan Rhubarb cake
We cater for vegans too. We’ve branched out into vegan baking too with cakes like vegan brownies, vegan rhubarb cake, vegan fruit cake and vegan blackberry & apple cake
We are concerned about animal welfare and whilst we do serve meat when people want it we buy it from local butchers so we know it has come from local farms and how the animals have been reared.
We buy all our eggs from local farms where we know the hens are able to roam around and do natural hen like things: running, flapping,clucking,scratching and pecking and haven’t just been kept in Barns with sides that lift up during the day: unfortunately that’s the case for a lot of eggs labelled “free range”. One of our suppliers is The Rainbow Egg Company a 4.5 acre family run poultry farm in Oxenhope in beautiful Bronte country.
We’ve committed ourselves to buying all our milk and cream from a local dairy. Our supplier is Fieldhead Farm near Keighley so we know that the cows our milk comes from have been outside grazing in fields around Skipton, Keighley and Baildon and it comes straight to our door when we need it. It’s more expensive than supermarket milk but tastes better and we’re much happier that we know it’s not come from zero grazing farms with cows kept inside all year long. See the Compassion in farming website for more information and to watch cows happy to get out into spring pasture.
So if you love local seasonal food and care about animals we are the caterers for you!
Lynne
Becky