Canapés
Overview
Drinks and Canapés, such an easy, obvious idea. Send out the invitations to thirty close friends, order in the Champagne, Cava, Crémant, Chardonnay, Pommard. Push back the chairs, light the fire, add a few decorations, your best playlist and you are set to go. Well not quite, what about the actual canapés? Nuts and crisps aren’t going to cut it. Tacos and dips are a bit yesteryear. Don’t even mention supermarket olives and antipasti. If it’s a really special occasion, you might want to consider bringing in a private chef to elevate the occasion. It will cost a bit more than a kilo of honey roast cashews, but it won’t break the bank. And the sparkle of joy in your friends’ faces as they arrive, spot the chef whites, realise you have got them covered and it’s going to be a blisteringly wonderful occasion.
How It Works
Guests are served a rotation of vegetable, fish and meat canapés
You simply provide helpers to hand out the canapés while the cook prepares, serves, clears and restores the kitchen to rights.
Canapés
Vegetable
Arancini balls - sun blushed tomato with tarragon mayo
Broad bean, pea & radish crostini
Courgette, spring onion & cheese tartlets
Cream cheese, yoghurt, caperberry & za'atar gluten free crostini
Goat's cheese with rhubarb & lovage
Manchego con membrillo
Minted courgette crostini
Pan con tomate
Roasted tomato, olives, chilli & basil croustades
Salsa verde with goats curd crostini
Spanish tortilla squares
Tomato, mustard & thyme tartlets
Tomato tart with basil & goat's cheese
Fish
Arancini balls - crayfish tail, basil & orange mayonnaise
Beetroot cured salmon with beetroot dressing & horseradish cream on pumpernickel
Prawn tartlets
Cream cheese, yoghurt, anchovy & za'atar crostini
Gin and juniper cured salmon with apple and fennel cream on pumpernickel bread.
King prawns with garlic, corriander & chilli
Roast red & yellow pepper & anchovy crostini
Salmon & asparagus tartlets
Salsa verde with goats curd crostini
Seared scallops, pea puree, pancetta crumb
Smoked mackerel, cream cheese, apple jelly, soda bread
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, caviar blinis
Southern spicy prawns on fried polenta cakes
Meat
Duck & celariac remoulade croustade
Game sausage rolls
Hoisin duck wraps
Korean chicken bites
Lamb cutlets scottadito, griddled and drizzled with lemon & parsley
Marinated skirt steak with a ginger & spring onion dipping sauce
Morcilla & pea puree
Parmesan, smoked pancetta & sage tartlets
Pork belly bites, spicy red plum, ginger & rhubarb relish
Seared venison carpaccio, English truffle
Spicy sausage rolls
Sticky sausages
Sticky soy honey chicken skewers
Thai chicken skewers with sweet chilli sauce
The above dishes are just a few examples.
There are lots of others to choose from.
I am also happy to cook recipes you request
