The opening of the kiosk!

The Wonderful Charlie

look at these cool cats

My helpers (also quite good models)

Ok so it’s been an amazing and tiring week! And I am now feeling incredibly shattered! And just caught up from Sunday’s big opening and re stocked the shop! So the kiosk is my new venture and will act as a base for my Underground restaurant and..... I will be serving lunch and maybe even have a take away service early evening.  I’m going to be serving interesting food something that you can’t get in your average cafe in Nottingham, for those of you who have been to the Mollyqueen markets I will be making tapas and salads like that as well as having and interesting selection of sandwiches including pulled pork and slaw, scrummy homemade pate and I will be making wheat free bread for those of you who suffer from wheat intolerance.

My Menus will rotate every day and will look something like this:

Persian potato cakes

Middle Eastern turkey meat balls

Grapefruit and blue cheese tarts

Served with

Turkish spoon salad

Slaw

Roast veg and lentil salad

Sandwiches:

Pulled pork and slaw

Roast chicken and salad

Chorizo and chicken and salas

Vegan roast carrot and lentil pate

Cider Poached hallumi

Herbed Feta and zucchini toasty

I will also be trying to make some of my own cakes, today I made some cinnamon buns , and banana flapjacks.

I would also just like to say thanks for all the support from my friends and family you have all been so great and I hope I can return the help you have given me (you know who you are) xbx

PS thanks to bee lady for photographing the event!

The Kiosk Opening

I’ve been painting outside tables today, ready for next weekend‘s opening day! Yes for years I’ve wanted a cafe and thanks to the support from my wonderful friends and family next weekend is my opening day! This weekend I have mainly been preparing menus, taste testing and painting, I have included some photos so you can get an idea of what I'm up to!  

 

The wonderful deck chairs I got from Lou Lou's all things vintage (a great shop on Hayden road, Sherwood) to adorn the terrace at the Kiosk.

Experimenting after sampling food with my brother around Edinburgh we devised a scrumptious pulled pork sandwich (which will be appearing on the menu at the kiosk)

Being a veggie I really wanted to provide a really interesting variety of foods for us none meat eaters, so this afternoon I poached some halloumi in cider, onions, garlic and spices and came up with the "Cow Girl" Man it's good! (Even if I do say so my self!)

 

So why don’t you come and have a lounge on my deck chairs and sample my menu. The BBQ will be served from 1, along with some free samples of the menu and a toast to the shop! If you do want to drink alcohol bring your own as I don’t have a license, but soft drinks and coffee will be available.

Come and stuff your face at 1b Winchester street, Sherwood NG5 4AH

Hope to see you then

XbX

What a load of Balls

I’ve been really busy this week getting the shop ready to open at the end of the month! So very exciting everything slotting into position all I need now is a decent oven (I never thought it would be so hard choosing an oven!). Any way enough shop talk let’s get down to business!  This Friday I’m going to be doing a small pop up, in Sherwood £25 a head, bring your own booze and it’s all going to be ball shaped!

The menu for a load of balls:

Surprise balled cocktail

Turmeric, cumin and date bread balls.

To start:
Profiteroles with thick fig cream
Or
Balled feta and dill gozleme(Greek, flaky pastry pies)

For main:
Crunchy red lentil kofte (vegan)

Or
Middle Eastern turkey kofte

Served with:
Fresh flat bread,
Spicy kisir balled salad
And
Feta creamed spinach balls

Sweet:
Lebanese doughnut balls with rose syrup
Or
Sweet labneh cheese cake ball

Cheese:
Lou cachet balls and oat cakes

To finish:
Fine coffee or tea with chocolate balls.

Might see you there

xbx

Eggs in the morning

I’m taking full advantage of the last of my lazy mornings I’m pretty sure as soon as I open my shop they will be all gone. So I’m guzzling the last spoonful of my Costa Rica honey coffee and eating  one of Amy’s scrummy  soft boiled duck eggs with dukkah and homemade pitas, whilst reading page to page Malouf (the cook  book I bought for my mum for Christmas!). Malouf and a conversation I had with my brother a few months ago has got me thinking of a new theme for a smallish pop up which I’m going to do on the 15^th of June (if you’re interested email me)food in balls.

My Brother was telling me about a restaurant he went to in Barcelona where all the courses were in the form of balls, for example if you had curry, the centre of the ball was the curry encased in sticky rice.

Any way I’m going to spend my day thinking of food balls the menu will follow next week if your interested email me on infor@nottsundergound.co.uk.

Tiny wee pop up

My Diana Henry inspired lunch: yummy baked sweet potatoes with marinated feta.

When I'm stressed I tend to read loads of cooking books the facts seem to allow me to drift into imaginary meals and exciting culinary trips. Recently I found Diana Henry's book Crazy Water Pickled Lemons in Oxfam and have been transported to a world of re remembered and new found foods. Consequently I have decided to do a tiny wee pop up restaurant at my house this weekend, with some recipes inspired by this book. I have a few places left if people are interested let me know. It will be held in Sherwood, on the 19th of May, 5 courses for £25.

the menu:

Appetizer

Grapefruit and Campari Granita

with baby brioche

To Start

Middle Eastern scotch quail egg (v) 

or

Ajo Blanco

(white gazpacho)

For Main:

Greek herb pilaf

with

Greek roast chicken

or

Sweet lemon prawns

or

Kalamata olives and feta (v)

vegan option available on request 

Served with:

Baked Sweet Potatoes

and

Minted Aubergine Salad

To finish:

Mangoes with orange blossom syrup and sweet labneh

or 

Stuffed figs dipped in chocolate

with

Fine coffee and tea

give me a bell if your interested 07514625697