Sample Dinner Party Menus

Wild Thyme Dinner Party Menu
(some dishes also popular

choices for weddings)

price guide from £25.00 - £30.00 per head

for 3 courses
  
Please note that some of the choices are subject to seasonal availability.  

Please feel free to suggest favourite dishes. Tamsin will do her best to create your ideal menu 
  
Starters

Smoked Salmon with orange dressing and avocado paté
Grilled peach salad with parma ham &  creamy goats cheese dressing
Roast Asparagus with parma ham and parmesan
Pan fried Scallops with pancetta
Caramelised mushroom tart
Avocado, prawn & crab terrine
Porcini Mushroom & Chicken Liver parfait, toasted brioche, tomato chutney
seasonal soups available
  
Main Courses

Marinated Balsamic Westcountry Beef with Asparagus
new potatoes and tenderstem broccoli with watercress pesto
 
Lemon and herb crusted Lamb Cutlets (summer)
served with lemon courgettes , feta & watercress salad 
Fennel and Potato Dauphinoise
(instead of the above, you could have puy lentil red onion and feta salad
or warm cannellini beans with garlic and parsley
 
Braised Lamb Shanks with Saffron & Pea Risotto (autumn/winter)
 
Pan-roasted Venison Loins with braised red cabbage, roast potatoes
  
Fillet of Pork with apple & mustard sauce
potato and celeriac rosti
  
Pan-fried Supreme Breast of Chicken
with braised lentils, slow roast tomatoes, basil oil, aioli mayonnaise
   
Supreme Breast of Chicken or Guinea fowl
served with asparagus, broad beans, peas, baby carrots, 
creamy mustard and creme fraiche sauce chopped chives 
(this was a popular main course for weddings Summer 2010)
   
Breast of Duck with peach compote (summer) 
watercress & pea shoot salad
potato thyme rosti or minted new potatoes
 
Seared Duck Breast with blood orange and star anise sauce (autumn/winter)
puree of sweet potato and carrot
 
FISH  (sourced from day boats off the coast of Beer)
Cod en papillote with roasted tomatoes and pesto
Salmon Fillet, asparagus, with chive & lovage sauce, minted new potatoes
Fillets of Sea Bass  on provencal lentils
   
Desserts

(lots more choice available!)
Chocolate Tart
Chocolate Marquise with summer berries, raspberry coulis
Pimms and Strawberry Jelly

Lemon Tart served with raspberry coulis
Cappuccino semifreddo served with chocolate sauce
Vanilla baked cheesecake served with raspberry coulis
Pavlova with summer  berries or tropical fruits.
Macademia Nut & Caramel Cheesecake
Sticky Toffee Pudding, caramel, rum sauce
Seasonal fruit crumble, vanilla custard or icecream
Cheeseboard at cost price

Coffee & homemade Truffles