Today we served a chicken, sweet potato and coconut curry served with a fragrant rice and fresh vegetables. The most likely origin of the word “curry”, comes from the Tamil name “kari”, which was a soup-like spiced sauce as it was first described in the mid-17th century in a Portuguese cookbook. With all the curry […]

Today for Tea we served home made sausage rolls with our signature home made baked beans. A sausage roll is a savoury pastry snack, popular in current and former Commonwealth nations, consisting of sausage meat wrapped in puffed pastry. Sausage rolls are sold at retail outlets and are also available from bakeries as a take-away […]

Today we served HungryMoose Mousse which is a signature dessert of ours, and also a school and nursery favourite. A mousse is a soft prepared food that incorporates air bubbles to give it a light and airy texture. It can range from light and fluffy to creamy and thick, depending on preparation techniques. A mousse […]

The use of beef as the primary meat originated with Spanish colonizers. In Spanish, the term “chile con carne”, consisting of the word chile (from the Nahuatl chīlli) and carne, Spanish for ‘meat’, is first recorded in a book from 1857 about the Mexican-American War HungryMoose are specialist bespoke school, nursery and pre-school caterers providing […]

Today we served a Spring Lamb cottage pie accompanied by seasonal vegetables. Shepherd’s pie, cottage pie, or hachis Parmentier is a dish of cooked minced meat topped with mashed potato. Its defining ingredients are red meat, onions, gravy or sauce, a topping of mashed potato. Common variants include adding vegetables to the filling and topping […]

Today we served Penne Pasta mixed together with oven baked chicken in a creamy white sauce. Penne is an extruded type of pasta with cylinder-shaped pieces, their ends cut at an angle. Penne is the plural form of the Italian penna, deriving from Latin penna, and is a cognate of the English word pen. When […]

Today we made our fresh raspberry and blueberry flapjack A flapjack is a baked bar, cooked in a flat oven tin and cut into squares or rectangles, made from rolled oats, fat, brown sugar and usually golden syrup. HungryMoose are specialist bespoke school, nursery and pre-school caterers providing quality fresh, healthy, nutritious hot lunch & […]

Baked Sultana Biscuit The term biscuit comes to English from the French biscuit (bis-qui), which itself has a Latin root: panis biscotus refers to bread twice-cooked. The Romans certainly had a form of biscuit, what we’d now call a rusk and, as the name suggests, it was essentially bread which was re-baked to make it […]

Today we cooked our best of British Roast Beef, served with crispy roast potatoes and tasty seasonal vegetables drizzled in gravy. Roast beef is a dish of beef that is roasted, generally served as the main dish of a meal. In the Anglosphere, roast beef is one of the meats often served at Sunday lunch […]

Homemade British Beef Lasagne, made with our signature tomato and cheese sauce topped with grated cheddar accompanied by rondel of cucumber and tomato. It actually originated in Ancient Greece a very long time ago. Lasagna, or “Lasagne” is derived from the Greek word ‘Laganon’ which is the first known form of pasta. Laganon wasn’t traditionally lasagna […]