Preparing for another party – with yummy salt beef

Posted on 04/07/2014 by streetfood1340

This party is being hosted by a very generous boss who is thanking his staff for a years hard work by spoiling them with a Deli Truck feast on Saturday morning. This menu has my personal favourite on it – our outrageously brilliant salt beef. We have been busy this morning making sweet almond pastry flans for our traditional strawberry tart filled with Creme Patissiere and organic strawberries. Since posting the “how to make” of one of these tarts on the 26th of May we have had endless requests from customers to have it on their menu. We make the pastry as short as we can with loads of butter and the addition of Almond Meal. Gives it a real kick. Also this morning (for tomorrows party) We will be starting the 4 hour simmer of our salt beef – for our famous salt beef sandwich. As you can see the brisket has been brined for 8 days in a selection of pickling spices and is now being simmered. The basic simmering flavours are a mirepoix (carrot, celery, onion) and crushed peppercorns, juniper berries and bay leaf. Also making the individual wild cherry and chocolate mousse puddings this morning. All good fun. Can’t wait to taste the salt beef when cooked.

Wild Cherry and chocolate mousse pudding

Pastry case for strawberry tart. loads of butter and almond meal

Simmering components

Spices for Salt Beef

Salt beef slowing simmering for 3 to 4 hours

Deli Truck now grows it’s own organic salad

Posted on 02/07/2014 by streetfood1340

Deli Truck has always been about quality food sourced responsibly. OUr aim is to cut as much of the chemical additives from our food as possible. We think the best way to get crispy, just picked, organic (no artificial fertilisers, no insecticides) lettuce leaves is to grow it ourselves. Our test patch has been hugely successful. We decided to grow all our edible leaves above ground, in terracotta pots to keep it off the ground – away from the crawlies that love our lettuce.

Growing our own organic lettuce

The taste is fantastic – we have a slightly bitter Italian variety and two other varieties of softer texture and tasting lettuce. Over the next weeks we will be supplying all our clients salads from our own garden – in Kent.

Testing the best lettuce varieties for our burgers and salads

Radicchio style lettuce growing on Deli Trucks lettuce test stand

Deli Truck organic Lettuce farm

Fabo hill top party with great views and spectacular Deli Truck food.

Posted on 30/06/2014 by streetfood1340

We organised a relaxed and fun party yesterday for great clients who tasted our food last summer and decided to use us for their own party. The venue had the most fantastic views over the Weald of Kent. Sun was shining food was fantastic. With a new member of staff on board the truck service was much more relaxed even when everybody wanted a cajun fish sandwich at the same time. Thanks Laura you were great. As the weather was so warm we decided to try our home-made Deli-Truck lemonade on the party – 45 large juicy lemons to 10 litres of water, with just a little sugar syrup – seriously good and it disappeared very quickly. A great day. The menu was simple but tasty and to our surprise the Cajun fish sandwich “sold out” very very quickly. For a party of 48 adults it’s unusual to sell more 10 pieces of fish – we sold all 25 pieces on board the truck. But it did look good and we think that’s what started the rush.

Deli Truck clients eating

Deli Truck puddings

Deli Truck Menu

Deli Truck view

Deli Truck trifle

Deli Truck view 2

Deli Truck home made tomato sauce

Deli Truck crowd

Deli Truck clients ordering food

Deli Truck "home made" "tomato sauce" onto her burger

Deli Truck client drizzling our home made tomato sauce onto her burger

Our burger ready to eat

Great Menu in Tunbridge Wells

Posted on 30/05/2014 by streetfood1340

Join us for our once a month BMW feast at the BMW motorcycle dealership in Tunbridge Wells tomorrow (saturday 31st of May) Menu is our usual yummy stuff – to include – our outrageous double cheese, double bacon burger, our I8 our smoked pulled pork sandwich and our cajun fish sandwich on panini. Weather is going to be brilliant for a relaxing lunch. Hope to see you all there

Showbiz Party for 50 in Wimbledon

Posted on 26/05/2014 by streetfood1340

We were asked to feed fifty people for a summers day lunch in the gardens and grounds of a well know showbiz personality in Wimbledon in London. The menu was complex for the truck but it worked a treat and was a success because of organisation and premium ingredients.

A garden party menu for 50 people

Can’t say who it is but a large garden in Wimbledon is our destination. Starting at the end – dessert first – we have just finished making a gallon of two fabo home made ice creams. We use only organic milk and cream and made a fun one for the kids made up of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream layered with marshmallow and chocolate sauce. The second half gallon is made for the adult guests with a vanilla base brimming with a laughable amount of Disaronno liqueur for that lovely boozy almond flavour. Three layers of the ice cream are separated with a dark, compote of raspberries and then swirled. Kind of like the raspberry ripple we used to have as kids but with a serious kick and a little almond and berry bitterness to make it very grown up.

The party is set to kick off at 12.30 Saturday, so running out of time – more posts as the preparations continue.

Our two special home made ice creams.

For the vegetarians – we made a very slow cooked confit of peppers, onions and leeks, added with steamed broccoli and cheddar cheese to our home made tart base. V tasty

home made vegetable pie for the vegetarians (or any body else for that matter)

The host wanted the best – so we roasted 4 rib-eyes for the parties main course. I have to say this was one of the best pieces of beef I have ever ever had. We aged it for nearly 40 days, so it was super tender. This meat comes form our normal supplier, who I think is one of the best butchers in the UK. Graham Batchelor from Batchelor’s the Butchers (3rd Generation) in Sevenoaks.

Preparing the beef feb-eye before a low, slow cooking.

We kept prepping for the party on Saturday morning including finishing our strawberry tarts the traditional way with our homemade almond short crust pastry with Creme Patissiere and fresh strawberries. We also completed our hot smoked salmon entree. We cleaned four whole sides of salmon and hot smoked over apple and oak wood then served at room temperature over crispy salad leaves. great smoky flavour but cooked..

preparing strawberry tart for the party

Another favourite was our fish pie – that went down a storm

Fish pie at front of photo – jam packed with pollock, smoked haddock, salmon, prawns and mussels

Christening Party overlooking the weald of Kent for 40 adults and 15 children

Posted on 29/04/2014 by streetfood1340

We were asked to prepare a luxurious American style menu for a Christening Party in the grounds of a grand country house overlooking the Weald of Kent for 40 adults and 15 children. The host wasted smaller portions so that their guests could come back to the Deli Truck again and again if they wished to taste the whole menu – Diner style. Hot dishes like the salt beef sandwich and the sea bass sandwich were made on the spot as the guests requested. Served this way the guests received their food at it’s freshest and best. We become the Gourmet Takeaway in the garden.

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Menu for 40 adults at a Christening Party. The 15 children had a separate menu.

A posh picnic for a point to point (part2)

Posted on 11/04/2014 by streetfood1340

The client wanted lots of fun food as well – as this will be an outdoor picnic. They especially wanted home made sausage Rolls. We made a super yummy sausage base out of finely minced pork and beef along with lots of sage, oregano, pepper, onion, lardon and lots of grated cheddar. Your right this is not the diet version, but wow it tastes great.

Puff Pastry ring rolled out into a very long thin piece.

Filling pastry with beef and pork sausage mix

Egging the pastry join

cutting of excess pastry

The Final Roll

Cut up and ready for the oven

cooked sausage rolls cooling down and ready for packing for tomorrows point to point picnic at Penshurst

Birthday success

Posted on 26/10/2013 by streetfood1340

”We hired the Deli Truck for my husband’s 40th birthday party, it made the night. The food was absolutely stunning and the truck was the talk of the evening! Dennis and his wife Miri are great to work with, coming up with suggestions and ideas for the night. We also hired them to cater for a private 6 course dinner for 10 the evening before which was amazing too. Just looking to plan another party so we can use them again! “ Liz Harwood-Bridgen, Brasted, Kent

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