Celebration Cold Menu
Canapés
- Smoked salmon and cream cheese croustades.
- Asparagus Pinwheels.
- Sausage rolls.
- Vegetable spring rolls and chilli dip.
- Pâté pyramids with sweet onion chutney.
Starters
- Cold soups: Cucumber or Watercress.
- Hot soups: Carrot and orange; Chicken and sweetcorn; Leek and tomato; Green pea.
- .. all soups served with croutons and french bread.
- Prawn Alabama - prawns in a spicy tabasco sauce with peppers and celery.
- Melon fans with raspberry coulis.
- Smoked and fresh salmon layered mousse.
- Goats cheese salad.
- Tricolour salad - avocado, mozzarella and sun-dried tomato with pine nut dressing.
- Pâtés: Mushroom; Chicken liver; Smoked mackerel. Served with melba toast.
- Choose two starters
Main Courses
- Whole fresh, dressed salmon with watercress dressing.
- Coronation chicken with apricots or peaches and almonds.
- Chicken in lemon mayonnaise, black grapes and almonds.
- Hawaiian chicken (mango and pineapple).
- Rare roast topside of beef with horseradish.
- Honey roast gammon with mustard.
- Crayfish and pasta in chilli dressing served with whole prawns.
- Quiche: Sun-dried tomato, basil and cheese; Asparagus; Spinach and mushroom; Vegetarian.
- Choose two main courses to be served in addition to the dressed salmon.
- Vegetarians may substitute quiche for the dressed salmon.
Accompaniments (main course)
- Hot new potatoes with parsley butter.
- Swiss potato salad.
- Coleslaw.
- Tomato, mozzarella and basil salad.
- Beetroot, apple, celery and spring onion salad with yoghurt and lemon.
- Mixed green salad with avocado dressing.
- Brown rice salad.
- Mixed bean salad with onion, parsley and french dressing.
- Curried five bean salad.
- Italian pasta salad.
- Mushroom salad.
- Couscous Salad.
- Carrot, orange and coriander salad.
- Chickpea, sweetcorn and tomato salad.
- Tabouleh (bulgar wheat, cucumber, tomato)
- Choose five accompaniments
Desserts
- Three layer meringue - kiwi, grape and strawberry with fresh cream, crème patisserie. Serves 18. Can be personalised with names or numbers.
- Lemon syllabub on a ginger-nut base.
- Tiramisu trifle.
- Peaches stuffed with Amaretto and biscuits.
- Blackcurrant or strawberry cheesecake.
- Chocolate profiteroles.
- Summer pudding.
- Banoffi individual meringue shells with chocolate sauce.
- Individual mocha swans - choux pastry filled with cream and sprinkled with chocolate.
- Individual strawberry shortbread gateaux.
- Individual chocolate Grand Marnier hearts.
- Individual peach and passion fruit hearts.
- Individual tarte au citron
- Fresh strawberries.
- Choose two desserts
Cheese
- Stilton, Brie, Edam, Boursin and Cheddar.
- .. served with celery, assorted biscuits, butter and a melon basket filled with grapes.
- Fresh percolated coffee, cream and mints.
- Two courses: From £15 per person, including coffee.
- Three courses: From £18 per person, including coffee.
- Four courses: From £21 per person, including coffee.
- Cheese course: From £3.00 per person.
- Minimum of fifty people.
N.B. The cheese course can be served later as a buffet for the evening guests if this buffet is used for a wedding. Disposable plates, plastic cutlery and serviettes matching the colour theme can be supplied at no additional cost.
The Evening Buffet may also be of interest.
Prices include delivery, serviettes and banqueting roll for buffet table. Farmhouse bread rolls can be provided for a small additional charge. Service is extra according to requirements. Crockery and cutlery for informal functions, if required, supplied at no extra cost. For larger or more formal occasions a hire service is available for china crockery, kings cutlery and glassware.
May 2010