Springtime Delights – Saturday 2nd September, the second day of Spring
Book your Fernhill Dinner now!
Springtime Delights
Five courses of delicious locally sourced food, prepared with joy.
Eat from an interesting selection of antique plates and odd glasses, flowers to take home.
There will be a vegetarian option for each course.
Expect to be nourished and surprised.
Special requests and queries welcome.
Easter Friday Dinner
There will be an Easter Treat Fernhill Dinner on Easter Friday, 14th April, at 6.30pm
Fresh food, sourced locally, in a delightful rural setting.
The Dinner Lady is still concocting the menu. Research may be required!
Expect some treats and few surprises. There may be eggs, or possibly a few buns (hot, cross or otherwise), maybe it’s not too early to start on the chocolate. Beautiful, beautifully presented is guaranteed.
Experience a sumptuous Fernhill Dinner in the middle of the Easter Holiday.
Warm wishes form the Dinner Lady
February’s Dinner
After a scary week of being far to close to the Port Hills fires the rain came, wind dropped and on Saturday 18.2.17 we were able to have pre dinner drinks and nibbles outside and enjoy a mild drizzle before eating.
For those of you who would have liked to come this is the menu:
- Aqua Fizz
- Filo bits filled with brocolli, leek and cream cheese puree
- Llama leg steak bites with mayo, sweet chilli sauce and dry salted capers
- Blackberry jelly with strawberries in raspberry vinegar
- Cool tomato and roast pepper soup with guacamole and seedy rolls
- Ceviche with paw paw salsa or white bean and fennel salad
- Roast duck with rose redcurrant jus or baked spiced eggplant with yogurt miso sauce
- New roast potatoes, green beans, cougette ribbons
- Plum sorbet
- Kumara mousse, loquat puree, chocolate ganache
- Tea, coffee, liqueur chocolates
No one won the prize of a voucher to the next dinner for guessing the ingredients in the desert! Please ask the Dinner Lady if you would like the recipe.
The next dinner will be on Saturday 18th March, more news about this event soon, you can book any time.
Birdsong at Dawn
Our lovely friend from Sydney stayed in the Summer House. Waking to sound of birdsong each morning, he recorded this. Such a delight.
Birdsong at Dawn, Fernhill
Update from the Dinner Lady
A busy few weeks with lots of research in Wellington, so delicious the Dinner Lady forgot to take photographs!
The garden is amazing with spring flowers and a few spring greens, we are planing a succession of garden treats to appeal to all the senses, you can expect beautiful flowers as well as food over the next few months. And, of course, our very special home brewed liqueurs.
November 12th, the Saturday of Show week end will be the last dinner for the year, after that only private events.
The theme – food inspired by WOW
Your own Dinner
The Dinner Lady has been taking bookings for Christmas celebrations and end of year functions, only week night dates are free now and there is also a possibility of something special between Christmas and New Year. Please contact the Dinner Lady if you want to book a dinner for up to 12 guests.