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Festivals and lunches

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Hannah and I have a busy few weeks coming up! We have a couple of jobs from previous clients who have come back for more delicious and seasonal food, we’re at Dartington Food Fair Sunday-Tuesday and The Bay Horse Inn on Cistern Street in Totnes starts serving The Kitchen Table food Saturday 2nd June!

We’ve really enjoyed making salads and dips with veg sticks for Sacks Too these last few weeks and they’ve been selling well. It’s nice to know that people can get a healthy snack in the day so we’ll continue supplying fresh, seasonal and interesting food for people to picnic with, grab on the run or have on their lunch break, Wednesday-Friday each week.

I’ve been working out of the Bay Horse for a couple of months now and driving customers crazy with delicious smells coming out of the kitchen as I prepare our catering dishes for various jobs and Sacks Too lunches, so The Bay Horse and The Kitchen Table decided to join forces. From Saturday 2nd June you will be able to have a fresh, seasonal and tasty fritatta, quiche or a hearty Chunks pie with two delicious salads for lunch. What a combination?! Great local beer, fantastic locally sourced, lovingly cooked and fresh food in the newly paved garden in the sunshine!

This Sunday (3rd June) we’re at the Dartington Food Fair which will be our first ever festival! We’re really looking forward to being amongst so many local Devon food heroes, some of whom we know, and some of whom we look forward to meeting. We’re celebrating the Jubilee with a trio of seasonal salads; The Great British Potato Salad; zesty mayo, Devon Organics locally grown mint, The Husbandry School blue potatoes and crunchy oca (a wonderful red tuber from South America), fresh garden peas and spring onions. We’re serving this with a really tasty Crunchy Spring Slaw with hazelnuts, fresh organic mixed leaves and edible flowers from School Farm in Dartington (how local can you get?!). So come and say hi and have a punnet of salads or a Za’atar Humous and salad wrap or…. and I left this to last for a reason!……. a slice of rhubard Victoria Sponge. We’ve gone totally British and gloriously regal!

Oca from The Husbandry School

 

Local, local, local!!!

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Our fledgling outside catering business, based in Totnes has been focused from the outset on using local Devon suppliers and being true to our tagline ‘Conscious Catering’. The Kitchen Table has been up and running now for more than half a year! Unbelievable! We’ve spent that time learning, meeting, eating, cooking, learning some more and really getting to grips with the business. I think Hannah, myself and KT (as we affectionately refer to our little business) are trully becoming bosom buddies! We have several repeat clients and a growing and diverse client base. It’s so pleasing to meet new people, plan their business and community meetings, public and private events, celebrations, weddings and family festivities with them and to come up with menu’s which sing the praises of our local growers and producers in tune with the seasons.

This last month has seen us hosting our very first (of many!) Kitchen Table conversation cafe’s hosted by Embercombe which was a rip-roaring success and we’re so excited to be planning the next one already for July – watch this space to find out who will be hosting the summer conversation!

It’s also seen us involved in organising a coffee festival in Totnes, to celebrate the towns independent cafe’s and send a clear message to any conglomerates, that we’re doing just fine thank you!! This festival is a joyous celebration of our diverse and ungentrified high street (as well as an opportunity to drink a lot of coffee!). Hannah rocked the airwaves today, talking on Totnes FM about the message behind the festival and she’s played a key role in organising the exciting barrista competition being held in the Civic Square Sunday 20th May.

In addition, this rainy spring has seen The Kitchen Table doing a trialCannellini, local purple sprouting broccoli and black olive salad run of supplying Sacks Too on the Plains with healthy, affordable and delicious lunch options.. each week we’ve made a scrumptious quiche, sumptious salad and sensational dip and veg sticks! They’ve been selling well and I’m excited that people have something healthy and creative for lunch – because though we all love a pasty, it’s nice to treat our bodies sometimes too.

So, I’m really enjoying this season of collaboration, mutual benefit and support. We’re in the process of putting a suppliers page together so you can see some of the wonderful people, projects and businesses that supply us to use their delicious produce in our cooking.

If you want a sample of our food, why not pop into Sacks Too Wed-Fri this Wild garlic, nettle and Sharpham brie quicheweek and try a wild garlic, nettle and Sharpham brie quiche, a cannellini bean, purple sprouting broccoli (grown just outside Totnes) and black olive salad or a mildly spiced carrot and red lentil dip with carrot sticks?

Also, next month we’ll be at The Dartington Food Fair, so come say hi?!