Seasonal Dinner Parties’ – The Mushroom Cookbook Supper Club
2nd December 2017, Aldgate, London – buy tickets here
Mushroom Cookbook, I am putting on The Mushroom Cookbook Supper Club, on 2nd December at the Crisis Cafe, Aldgate.
It’s not a normal supper club; it’s set up much like a restaurant, with individual tables and you can opt to be sat only with the people you book with or with some new friends on one of the small communal tables. The menu is revealed on the night and I host and introduce the courses, pointing out the mushrooms and their origins, as well as the other niche foodie bits and bobs used. It’s a fun and relaxing night, where you can eat, drink and be jolly, and learn a bit more about where your food comes from.
revealed on the night, will feature some lovely products from Edinburgh-based start-up MARA Seaweed and Worcestershire micro herb and edible flower producer, Westlands.
Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Winter Mushroom Feast
26th November 2016, Aldgate, London – buy tickets here
Winter time doesn’t have to be depressing when there are so many wild and cultivated mushrooms still around! Taking place on 26th November at the Café from Crisis London, Aldgate, Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Winter Mushroom Feast will take people through a seven-course tasting menu with drinks for £45, celebrating how wonderful mushrooms are this time of year. The profit made through the supper club goes to the Crisis charity, which helps integrate homeless people back into society, and selected producers donate their product or heavily discount it so more money can go to Crisis.
Celebrating wild and preserved foods, local, British products and foodstuffs from worthy causes from further afield, the menu will highlight the many mushrooms available in the winter – especially those sometimes weird and wonderful cultivated mushrooms grown in fascinating and huge sustainable facilities. We’ll also still have some ceps, yellow and grey chanterelles, pied de mouton, trompette*, and hopefully there will also be some puffballs around! The wild mushrooms will be foraged in the UK and Europe, and will share the limelight with some interesting niche meats, cheeses, spirits and wines.
The evening starts at 7pm and tickets are £45 for a non-vegetarian or vegetarian seven-course menu, paired with alcoholic or/and non-alcoholic drinks. The menu contains gluten and wheat, as well as dairy, but gluten and wheat free is available. There are only 40 places available and you’ll be able to download the recipes and time plan to cook a dinner party at home for six people with the same menu after the event.
A collaboration with New Covent Garden Market-based supplier Mushroom Man, who supplies mushrooms to some of the top restaurants and chefs in London, the supper club will feature some recipes from The Mushroom Book, co-authored by Michael Hyams (aka Mushroom Man) and myself, which is due to be published by Lorenz Publishing at the end of the year.
Liz
Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Autumnal Mushrooms
17th September 2016, Aldgate, London – buy tickets here
An autumn feast is in the making! Taking place on 17th September at the Café from Crisis London, Aldgate, Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Autumnal Mushrooms will take people through a seven-course tasting menu with drinks for £45, celebrating how wonderful wild mushrooms are this time of year. The profit made through the supper club goes to the Crisis charity, which helps integrate homeless people back into society.
Celebrating wild foods, local, British products and foodstuffs from worthy causes from further afield, the menu will highlight the many autumn mushrooms available – this really is their time to shine. We’ll have the best ceps, yellow and grey chanterelles, pied de mouton, truffles, trompette, and hopefully some weird and wonderful lesser known fungi, like the cauliflower mushroom (looks like cauli), lobster mushroom (you get the idea) and puffballs! (That one’s self-explanatory.) The wild mushrooms will be foraged in the UK and Europe, and will share the limelight with some interesting Kent-grown apple varieties from Loddington Farm, as well as a selection of niche cheeses, spirits and wines.
I will cook my menu and host on the night, explaining the thoughts behind the dishes and why certain products and producers have been used – and of course, share my love of mushrooms! All producers listed on the menu, which is revealed on the night, have donated or heavily discounted their produce so a larger amount of the ticket price will go to charity.
The evening starts at 7pm and tickets are £45 for a non-vegetarian or vegetarian seven-course menu, paired with alcoholic or/and non-alcoholic drinks. The menu contains gluten and wheat, as well as dairy. There are only 40 places available and you’ll be able to download the recipes and time plan to cook a dinner party at home for six people with the same menu after the event.
A collaboration with New Covent Garden Market-based supplier Mushroom Man, who supplies mushrooms to some of the top restaurants and chefs in London, the supper club will feature some recipes from The Mushroom Book, co-authored by Michael Hyams (aka Mushroom Man) and myself, which is due to be published by Lorenz Publishing at the end of the year.
Any questions, drop me a line or tweet,
Liz
*P.S. Wild products are very much subject to availability, as nature dictates. Mushroom Man sources from excellent commercial foragers though, so it’s more than likely we will have the full house.
Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club: It’s all about fruit and veg
Thursday 28th July £35
I am putting on a supper club that’s all about fruit and vegetables on Thursday 28th July, at new wine and cocktail bar 68 and Boston in Soho, London. My menu, below, will include an arrival glass of sherry and an amuse bouche, as well as four fruit-and-veg focused courses. Now, don’t get the wrong idea – you’re not going to be wading through tonnes of radishes and peashoot, and coming out hungry (and pissed), this is real food, making the most of all summer has to offer us in this country and further afield.
The menu:
Amuse bouche
Oyster mushroom ceviche
Rare beef or barbecued aubergine on red and sweet potato
salad with courgette flowers,
sweet and sour tomatoes, and a tarragon aioli
Cherry cream cake
Coffee and homemade chocolates and jellies
£35 per person, includes a welcome sherry
Wines and cocktails available at the bar
This is the wine list (all wine is £20 a bottle, £17 a 500ml carafe or £6.50 a glass)
Book tickets – here
Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Summer Mushrooms
Hello!
I’m back with another supper club – this time celebrating mushrooms in summer, as well as all those lovely seasonal morsels we couldn’t wait to get our hands on through the cold winter months.
Taking place on 25th June at the Café from Crisis London, Aldgate, Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Summer Mushrooms is a seven-course tasting menu with drinks for £45 – and the profit goes to the Crisis charity, which helps integrate homeless people back into society.
Celebrating wild foods, local, British products and foodstuffs from worthy causes from further afield, the menu will highlight the summer mushrooms girolle (or golden chanterelle as they are sometimes called) and summer truffles, foraged in the UK and Europe, as well as some of the mushrooms grown all-year round in facilities across Europe and the world, like shameji, oyster and enoki.
I will cook my menu and host on the night, explaining the thoughts behind the dishes and why certain products and producers have been used – and of course, share my love of mushrooms!
The menu will also star heritage tomatoes from Thanet Earth, straight-from-the-farm strawberries and raspberries from Ladysden Farm in Kent, award-winning English sparkling wine, Castle Brook’s Classic Cuvee from Wye Valley’s Cobrey Farms, Cornish cheese, some liquid treats from British potato grower-turned-distiller William Chase, product from excellent Italian rice producerGallo and Madécasse chocolate – one of the only chocolate products exported from Madagascar that’s fully made and packagedin the African country. All producers listed have donated or heavily discounted their produce so a larger amount of the ticket price will go to charity.
The evening starts at 7pm and tickets are £45 for a non-vegetarian, pescatarian or vegetarian seven-course menu, paired with alcoholic or/and non-alcoholic drinks. The menu contains gluten and wheat, as well as dairy. There are only 40 places available and you’ll be able to download the recipes and time plan to cook a dinner party at home for six people with the same menu after the event.
A collaboration with New Covent Garden Market-based supplier Mushroom Man, who supplies mushrooms to some of the top restaurants and chefs in London, the supper club will feature some recipes from The Mushroom Book, co-authored by Michael Hyams (aka Mushroom Man) and myself, which is due to be published by Lorenz Publishing this autumn.
Thank you to everyone who came to last month’s sell-out spring supper club – hoping to both see some familiar faces and some new ones next month!
Any questions, drop me a line or tweet,
Liz
*P.S. Wild products are very much subject to availability, as nature dictates. Mushroom Man sources from excellent commercial foragers though, so it’s more than likely we will have the full house. If not, we can blame it on the weatherman (and celebrate the season with replacements).
Past parties:
Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club –
Mushrooms in Spring
Seasonal Dinner Parties’ Supper Club – Mushrooms in Spring took place on 23rd April at the Café from Crisis London, Aldgate.
Celebrating wild foods, local, British and Irish products and foodstuffs from worthy causes from further afield, it was a seven-course tasting menu highlighting the joys of spring eating and included springtime wild mushrooms like morels, St George’s and mousserons, foraged in the UK and Europe, as well as some of the mushrooms grown all-year round in facilities across Europe and the world.
The menu starred purple asparagus and award-winning English sparkling wine, Castle Brook’s Classic Cuvee both from Wye Valley’s Cobrey Farms, edible flower and herb gems from Westlands (the horticultural Aladdin’s cave of the Midlands), Sheridan’s Irish artisan farmhouse cheeses, local East London Moonshine from Moonshine Kid (yes, it’s that kind of dinner party) and Madécasse chocolate – one of the only chocolate products exported from Madagascar that’s fully made and packaged there.
This was the menu:
Moonshine and apple blossom aperitif
@moonshine_kid @westlandswow
an amuse bouche of mushroom caviar
mousseron mushroom consommé
@mrmushroomman @westlandswow
morel bread with whipped garlic butter
with Castle Brook Classic Curée 2010
@castlebrookwine
pulled Suffolk salt marsh lamb shoulder with St George’s mushrooms in a pie cup topped with a raw purple asparagus and wild garlic salad
@wyevalleyasp @mrmushroomman
served with Brightwell Vineyard’s Oxford Regatta
for dessert, orange blossom mousse with dark chocolate and honeycomb
@madecasse @westlandswow
chestnut mushroom biscuits with Sheridan’s Irish 15 Fields Cheddar
@sheridanscheese
and to sip, Astley’s Late Harvest sweet wine
@ashleyvineyards
espresso chocolate truffles, to finish
@madecasse
A collaboration with New Covent Garden Market-based supplier Mushroom Man, who supplies mushrooms to some of the top restaurants and chefs in London, the supper club featured some recipes from The Mushroom Book, co-authored by Michael Hyams (aka Mushroom Man) and myself, which is due to be published by Lorenz Publishing, autumn 2016.
This is the first of a series of seasonal mushroom-themed pop-up restaurant nights that I’ll be putting on at the cafe throughout the year and all profit goes to the Crisis charity, which helps integrate homeless people back into society.
*P.S. Wild products are very much subject to availability, as nature dictates. Mushroom Man sources from excellent commercial foragers though, so it’s more than likely we will have the full house. If not, we can blame it on the weatherman (and celebrate the season with replacements).