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Have a real Chef cooking in your kitchen....

Dinner parties, soirées, birthdays and special events. Chris Avey can cook a special menu that you choose, or your own menu done just the way you like it.

No need to book a table in a busy restaurant, or worry about transport or the weather. Dine in the comfort of your own home, have your guests come to you, let a professional take care of the meal, explore your own wine cellar!

meringues and mousses
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Call Chris on:

07768 351350


or EMAIL  
with this link


He can work with you to decide on a menu that will suit you and your guests, and take care of special dietary needs and even the shopping and washing up.

Have a look at some of the example dishes on the right. Chris can even come and cook some for you to try out (at cost).

Functions are costed per head, based on the menu that you choose.

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Example dishes:

 
Asparagus soup with Parmesan crisps

Samphire with Gomaai (sesame) dressing

Individual goats cheese and sunblush tomato Dartois 

Buckwheat Blinis & Crostini with various toppings

Boned Chicken stuffed with Mediterranean vegetables
and a confiture d'olives

Toasted walnut, bacon, and Spinach roulade

Persian style apricot and cashew filled aubergine
with coconut sauce

Roasted Mediterranean vegetable lattice on a red pepper sauce

'Death by Chocolate' trifle

Rhubarb Fool on a rhubarb puree with chocolate
and homemade ginger biscuit


Specialities include: Excellent vegetarian dishes,
chocolate sculpture and sculpted fruit
What people have said:

"Thank you for making the evening such a success. The food was delicious!"

"Thank you for cooking for us, all the girls thought it was lovely food"

"Of all the meals you've cooked for us... That was certainly one of them!"


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Photos:


(Top of page) Lemon mousse gateaux with meringue mushrooms.

(Below, clockwise from top left) Sweet potato tagine,
Mediterranean boned and stuffed chicken,  Hot Cross Buns, green salad with feta and pine kernals, Bird chocolate sculpture, Plaice Goujons with tartare.
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ABOUT THE CHEF:

After 10 years as a house husband, artist, and passionate amateur chef, Chris Avey took to professional cookery in 2005 at the age of 39, gaining distinctions in both professional qualifications he has since earned.

Chris became the Chef at the University of East Anglia's nursery, Norwich, where he has cooked an entirely vegetarian menu for up to 90 children each day for over four years. In 2007 The UEA Nursery was placed 'Highly Commended' in the first ever national Nursery Food awards, highlighting good practice, good ingredients, and good food for the under 5's. Chris also produced a cookbook for sale on behalf of the nursery which won the first Organix prize for a nursery recipe book, presented to Chris by chef Paul Rankin at the BBC Good Food show.

Of course Chris has over 20 years experience of cooking excellent food for adults as well as children. He also runs courses on general cooking for beginners, and meat-free cooking, and has contributed a regular recipe article to Sprouts Magazine for parents of under 5's. See an example recipe on the recipe page.

Chris has also run special ticket-only restaurant nights at venues around Norwich.
tagine stuffed chicken
goujons of Plaice hotxbuns
chocolate sculture salad with feta
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Chris collects his prize from chef Paul Rankin Find out more about
the Nursery Food Awards:
Click the picture
to see a different sort of food creation:
I used to paint murals
 on people's walls

See more here:

Please sponsor me for my 144 mile
cycle ride
May 30th 2010
prize organix.com
recipe page
my murals

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align="center">Chris Avey (that's Avey, not Avery) is an award winning vegetarian chef from Norwich, Norfolk UK, who, after 20 years as a 'talented amateur', turned professional at the age of 39. He has gained two consequetive distinctions in his first two (City and Guilds certificate and diploma) qualifications. Contact Chris for dinner parties, christenings, wedding catering, soirees, romantic dinners, birthday menus, a birthday party, eating at home or in hired venues. A private chef for hire in Norfolk, contact Chris when you are planning on entertaining friends at home, want a personalised menu or don't want to cook for youself. I don't want to cook for myself, I want someone to do the cooking for me, I want a personal chef, a private chef in my kitchen. Chris cooks for 90 children each day at the UEA nursery in Norwich, he has acheived a top award, putting the nursery kitchen in the top seven nationwide, as well as having produced an award-winning cookery book. The kitchen at the nursery was also awarded five stars out of five by Norwich City Council, in respect of its cleanliness and good hygiene practices. Chris may be the only chef you'll meet who can unicycle while tossing a pancake!