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!
	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. Photos: (Top right) Lemon mousse gateaux with meringue mushrooms. (Bottom right) Sweet potato tagine, green salad with feta and pine kernals, Plaice Goujons with tartare, Hot Cross Buns, Bird chocolate sculpture, Mediterranean boned and stuffed chicken.		Example dishes:   Asparagus soup with Parmesan crisps Samphire with Gomaai (sesame) dressing Individual goats cheese and sunblush tomato Dartois with pesto Buckwheat Blinis with smoked salmon, sundried tomato tapenade, egg mayonnaise Trout aux farcies vert 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 Summer fruit tart Specialities include: Excellent vegetarian dishes, chocolate sculpture and sculpted fruit
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, quickly gaining a distinction in his first professional qualification. Chris became the Chef in Norwich at the University of East Anglia's nursery, where he cooks an entirely vegetarian menu for up to 90 children each day. 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 has also produced a cookbook for sale on behalf of the nursery which won the first Organix prize for a nursery recipe book, which was presented to Chris by chef Paul Rankin at the BBC Good Food show. Chris is also a chef at a bar and bistro just outside Norwich. 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 contributes a regular recipe article to Sprouts magazine for parents of under 5's. See an example recipe on the recipe page.

Chris collects his prize from chef Paul Rankin	Find out more about the Nursery Food Awards:	Click the picture to see a recipe for the summer:	I used to paint murals  on people's walls See more here:

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 holds a distinction in his first professional (City and Guilds) qualification, and currently has two distinction grades towards his second qualification, due to be completed summer 2009. 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. I'll call Chris. In his day job at the UEA nursery, Nowich, where Chris cooks for 90 children each day, 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!