Peppercorn Kitchen: Spring is Here!

Spring has arrived and with it some glorious new items on the menu!

Since Lisa has been back at work after her maternity leave, we have been trying out some new and delicious morsels to tempt our discerning customers. You'll see from the 'photos that we've posted from last week that we were really focusing on sweet treats - the creamy gateaux seem very popular - 'specially with weekend lunchers - we've tried Chocolate and Blueberry, Boozy Apricot and Vanilla, passion fruit and lemon and in the 'photo is our Strawberry and Vanilla delight! The other cake included in the blog is Chocolate and Beetroot with a chocolate ganache and rose petals.

On the meringue front, crikey are they selling fast!! We now make rosewater , chocolate , and coffee and cinnamon flavoured giant meringues and they seem to go down really well with a similarly giant dollop of unctuous clotted cream - yum!

We will endeavour to include some 'photos of the outside of Peppercorn Kitchen Cafe in the next posting because it does look lovely with fresh pots of primulas on the tables and the two cherry trees we planted a couple of weeks ago hopefully coming into blossom in the fullness of time. We will be turfing the terraced area shortly and we're having some more lovely picnic tables made by Sean of Castle Gates - then we'll plenty of room - so we're ready for the season!

We have a cunning plan for efficient and decadent picnic takeaways for the beach this summer. We will take orders and payment for your beach picnic in the morning and you'll be able to select a delivery time from 12pm, 12-30pm, 1-00pm, 1-30pm and 2-00pm. You will be given a flag on a stick(!) which you can stick into the sand next to you on the beach. When your allotted delivery time arrives, you can send one of your party to the beach entrance and collect your picnic and we''ll collect our flag and tick your name off the list. Should you be swimming or asleep when your lunch is delivered, then we'll be able to spot your numbered flag and leave your lunch for you. What do you think? Feed back gladly received and processed!!

here's our wonderful log burner in action

Our Spring savoury menu includes :
- Sweet Potato cakes served with a soured cream and yoghourt dressing.
- Boharat infused Lamb Kofta served with lime, mint and pepper labneh.
Creamy Parsnip and Fennel soup.
- Mediterranean Chorizo and Bean Broth
_ Thai Fishcakes with a spicy dipping sauce

and the puddings include:

-Rich Chocolate Beetroot cake with a brandy and chocolate ganache and rose petals

Creamy home made fruit or vanilla Yogurt pots
- Rich Chocolate Mousse

-Scones with jam or home made lemon curd and clotted cream

-Eton Mess

-Meringues (of course!)

- Star Anise infused creamy Rice Pudding

- and our delicious Gateaux

to name but a few.....

It won't be long until the opening hours change to 9am - 5pm. April 1st is the date we've decided is most appropriate, for obvious reasons. Until then we're still open every day from 10am -4pm and we can't wait to see and hear from you!