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Bob's Blog: Oct 2009
Well, it looks like the summer is turning very rapidly in to winter... It makes you wonder if we should as a nation find ways of enjoying the winter more than we do.Maybe we should get the LBH&F to lay a cover of fake snow on the grass in the park and get the kids back in their thousands to enjoy a cold day in the park as happened early this year when we awoke to all that snow?! All I know is, I love the winter menus, and as bad as this may sound to you sun worshipers, bring on the cold and heat up the stew! I did not get to my size on Rocket and Red Chard salads...
Mike, our new Chef/Manager, is working on a range of new 'made on the premises' pies with mash, peas and gravy eaten in the café or for takeaway lunches as well; in a suitable box so the gravy will not drip over you key board or your coats. Mike is also very excited as we have a posh dinner booked for next week at the café; a private affair that, in Mike's own words, will allow him to show off his chef skills.
Did you know you can book the café for your own event? So far this year we have provided for all sorts of private and corporate events; from mentoring days to new products launches, weddings to christenings, 80th birthday celebrations and live music.
Right now one of our most popular dishes is Honey roast Gammon with fried eggs and hand cut homemade chips. Since the outset of the Beef Kitchen menu five years ago, I insisted that roast gammon be included. I was doing a count up the other day of the number of green horseshoe gammons I had ordered since we began, and converted it in to kilos and then went on to the beef and the rest of the menu. (Just goes to show how slack I have been lately). It's hard to believe that from when we began, our little trailer has sold near 16 metric tons of top quality meats!
The newest addition to our menu is our own 'Potato Rosti' our first contribution to saving the planet as it were. We sold 10 the first game, now we sell 150 and still growing...so are the tummies of our good and loyal customers! One very well spoken city gent comes to the trailer each game and last week told us he looks forward to the football season now, hates football, but loves our grub.
Very unwisely Fred our cashier gave out his telephone number to a customer because the customer never gets to the game early and keeps missing out, as we have sold out by the time he arrives...that started telephone orders! Now we get calls from as far a field as Southampton ordering our salt beef baps!!
What has all this got to do with the café you may well ask? The answer is simple; we keep to the same rules - quality food cooked with care, and sold at a fair price.
Our Burgers at Fulham are the best in town. 100% beef, not filled with water or fats, no funny sounding substitutes, just good quality meat from the West of Scotland made fresh and sold that way.
Three years ago we were asked to cater at a Cricket match. We did, and one lady had a lasting memory of our food. She called the other day to ask us to cater for her, though this time it will be for Veterans Day 2010, for 3,000 people. That makes sense of the saying 'quality of quantity'...how may tonnes will we need for that day I wonder? I had better get the calculator out and get ready for that one...
In the next blog, there will be more about our apprentices. Exciting things are about to happen on that front.
Bye for now
Bob