A decent steady week various bookings and enquiries for all sorts of events, each week that goes by and I think yeah its been good but it just seems to get better and better. Spoken to a client from Germany this week and he has lived in Germany nearly his whole life but his Mum is English the crazy part is that he knows Bude well, lived in Launceston (maybe a little bit unfortunate living there) and was Christened at Poundstock just outside Bude, it is a very small world ! I did cook for a group around 3-4yrs back down Cornwall and they were telling me that the following day they were going to a place just outside Bude called Poundstock and going to visit friends in a house Dolberry. Which to most people won’t seem odd but Dolberry is where I lived when I was younger! Crazy
So I had an event on the Friday for a great bunch of regulars 7 courses –
Canapes
Lobster Bisque
Ravioli filled with sweet potato, goats cheese and a wild garlic and roasted walnut sauce
Seared Scallops, hogs pudding, cauliflower
Monkfish, leeks, bacon, pickled mushrooms
Devon Vension, celeriac, potato rosti
Dark Chocolate mousse, honeycomb, dark fruits
Another great event for Aidan and his family and friends.
Saturday was for a 90th birthday and wow if I could look like this chap does when I am 60 I will be over the moon! The house was in Dorchester so was a fair old jant over a 4 hr round trip! But was well worth it, 11 guests and a great time was had by all, in a really lovely house. Anyone that knows me will know my geography is absolutely horrendous so I have never really got any idea where I am going its either down Cornwall or out of Cornwall!! This week I had an enquiry to go to the Cotswolds now I know this is up country end of I know nothing more! It is lucky I can cook ! But that is another thing someone said to me recently that really rubbed me up the wrong way that I am lucky, Oh I am really lucky working 16hr days with only 2 weeks off a year missing out on everything oh yeah really lucky. This is not luck its called getting your head down grafting no stop and when you feel like you can’t go on you push harder and deeper until you drop. You have to believe and want something so badly that it hurts and that is why I am not working like a lunatic anymore cause I have put the hours in to get to this point. But then again I suppose if others want to call this luck what does it matter really.