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Food

We eat together as a family and we like our guests to join us at mealtimes, too.   

We love good food and we enjoy cooking. We bake our own bread, and we cook traditional English and Scottish food as well as other nationality dishes such as Italian, Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine. We also have plenty of experience in cooking for guests with special dietary requirements, for example those with an intolerance to wheat or dairy foods, and of course, vegetarians.

We like to involve our guests in menu planning for the week so that we know they will like and enjoy the food we serve.

To give you an idea, here are some sample menus:

 



Main Course
English Roast Beef & Yorkshire pudding, with roast potatoes, cauliflower, peas & green beans

Dessert
Lemon Meringue Pie with cream


Main Course
Slow Baked Shoulder of Lamb, with rice and Greek salad

Dessert
Honeyed Figs and
Greek yoghurt

Main Course
Fresh Lasagne
with mixed salad

Dessert
Poached Pears with
vanilla ice cream


Main Course
Mushroom Stroganoff with basmati rice and green salad

Dessert
Syrup Sponge Pudding
with custard

Main Course
Oven Baked Cod with carrots, broccoli and braised fennel

Dessert
Fresh Fruit Salad
with crème fraiche


Main Course
Fresh Tagliatelle in a Smoked Salmon, Courgette and Saffron Cream Sauce with a side salad

Dessert
Fruit Sorbet, seasonal fruit coulis


Every fortnight we have a Farmers’ Market in Hastings where local farmers can sell their produce.  We buy seasonal vegetables here when we can. 

We are also very lucky to have a fishing fleet here in Hastings which has won the Sustainable Fishing Industry Award, and we make sure our fish is locally sourced where possible.



Britain has had a negative reputation for cuisine and many guests have said that before their stay they worried that they would not like the food in Britain.  The following testimonials show that they have all enjoyed our cooking!
 

“I enjoyed the English food and I know how to prepare fish and chips now!  If you want to know, ask Bob, the best cook I’ve ever seen!”

“We ate a lot of delicious breakfasts, lunches and dinners”

“When a French person goes to UK people say to him “Good luck with the English food!”  Now I can answer “No problem, it’s lovely food you know!””
“A special award to Bob whose culinary talents have been greatly appreciated”

“Bob, thank you for your delicious meals and the excellent bread”

“I am looking forward to coming back.  Could I benefit from cooking lessons perhaps next time?”

“Thanks a lot for all those fantastic meals and your lovely bread - God knows it’s hard to please a French person when it comes to bread”


Tel: +44 1424 715 806
72 West Hill Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, UK

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