Lunch out

Our daughters were home for a few days and we walked up the road for lunch. It's aways interesting to see what arrives on the plate because the hotel has a 25 mile food policy with much of the produce coming from their well-stocked vegetable garden. A meal is always followed up with a wander around to see what is growing.

All well labeled.

The food is garnished with flowers and/or herbs giving great plate appeal and the plates themselves are a mishmash of old styles, this beetroot puree looking good against the blue.

A few marigold petals sprinkled on the dessert.

In the greenhouse 

squash and pumpkin stored under the workbench

and a record of what has been picked.

    Other temptations in the drawing room where we sat to have coffee.

Note to self: make more use of petals.