BREAKFASTS

We provide a selection of freshly-baked home made breads and muffins, and being a veggie, Andrea also offers a vegetarian cooked breakfast. Meat-eaters do not fear, the traditional full English breakfast is also available. Our local organic and health-food supplier, Organica, provides us with organic produce wherever possible, and we also visit local farmers' markets regularly for specialist sausages, field mushrooms, etc. Local allotment holders and smallholders are also used from time to time for our fruit and veg. Locally-produced fruit juices, Cheddar strawberries (in season) and free-trade tea and coffee are also used. Very little of what you eat here comes from your standard supermarket shelf.

Our recently-refurbished kitchen is where your food is prepared, and most of the cooking is done on our traditional Rayburn cooker (Agas and Rayburns are made by the same people). Food is said to taste better cooked on an Aga/Rayburn because the cooking method allows food to retain its natural succulence and flavour.

WEEKDAY OFF-PEAK BREAKFASTS

Andrea has gone back to teaching, on a part time basis from September 2007. We were also seeing a lot of fresh produce going to waste in the quieter off-peak weekdays. So as a result, we are not serving cooked breakfasts on weekday term-time mornings.

Mornings that cooked breakfasts would not be available in 2008 are: Weekdays Jan 7th to Feb 15th, Weekdays Feb 25th to March 20th, Weekdays March 25th to April 4th, Weekdays April 21st to May 23rd (5th May is OK though), and Weekdays June 2nd to July 23rd.

On these days an equally substantial self-service continental breakfast will be provided instead for the same price, available anytime you like from 8am to 9.30am. This includes cereals, fresh fruit, yoghurt, toast and preserves, pastries, cheese, ham etc. along with tea and coffee. If the availability of a "Full English"on weekday (schoolday) mornings is important to you, you may want to consider alternative accommodation.

DRINKS

We have a drinks licence here and in depending on stocks you will be able to sample local bottled ales and wine (out of the peak season we run stocks low though).

A typical weekend or holiday breakfast menu

To begin, a selection from::
Various Fruit Juices · Cereals · Grapefruit · Bread · Muffins · Cheddar Strawberries (in season) · Yoghurt · Pastries

Cooked Breakfast options - fresh from the Rayburn
(not available on the dates listed above):
Porridge
Full English Breakfast
Smoked Haddock
v Vegetarian Cooked Breakfast
v Marmite Eggs Florentine
v Fresh Fruit with Yoghurt and Honey
v Grilled Mushrooms or Tomatoes on Toast
Local Cheddar Cheese on Toast
Buck Rarebit (cheese on toast with poached egg)

Alternatively you may wish to pick and mix from the following:

Bacon · Sausages (specialist ones often available) · Vegetarian Sausages · Grilled Tomatoes · Grilled Mushrooms Baked Beans · Toast · Fried, Poached, Boiled or Scrambled Eggs

all served with:
a selection of organic tea and coffee, and self-service toast with marmalade and preserves when you are ready, in our conservatory breakfast room or out on the deck in good weather. Sorry but we can't serve breakfast in bed.

EVENING MEALS