Food, food and more food
Breakfast
Wake up to a large flavours of Herefordshire award winning breakfast comprising a buffet table laden with home grown fruit and berries when in season; baked apple, rhubarb or pear, home baked muffins; local cheeses and yoghurts; local bakery bread; muesli and a selection of dried fruit nuts and seeds.
If you’ve had too much wine the night before I’ll gladly whip you up my liver cleansing “power breakfast”!
We cook to order specialising in our full English breakfast comprising 2 each of the award winning pork, spring onion and stilton sausages, and thick cut bacon from the local butcher, served with two of “my girls” eggs, mushrooms and my own tomatoes (when in season) or choose our Walford Court special – 2 potato scones, topped with 2 rashers of the local butchers bacon with two of the yellowest yolked eggs you ever did see balanced on the top!
Platters & Soup
A platter of local cheeses, pate and/or organic smoked salmon served with salad, homemade chutneys and pickles, plus organic Pimhill Farm oatcakes, can be ordered for your room. Alternatively on request we are happy to put a tureen of hot homemade soup in our guest lounge for you to help yourself to, if you choose not to go out in the evenings. These are available 7 days a week.
Dinner
An evening meal at Walford Court is a unique and intimate dining experience, with personal service for just you, or up to 6 people. As all meals are cooked especially for you from freshly picked/dug home grown ingredients or local produce purchased to order, meals must be pre-ordered, and a menu proposed and agreed. Seasonal cooking is key to ensure we provide the utmost quality and taste, so not all options shown below are available all year round.
If you would like dinner on the night of your arrival, we will propose a menu based on seasonality and availability. Some changes can be discussed to tailor the meal to your personal tastes, but with only one cook in the kitchen we cannot cater for a variety of single portions. Most main courses and some desserts must be for a minimum of two servings. If you have gluten, wheat or dairy allergies – no problem!
Once you're here we can chat about any meals you may require for subsequent nights, though it is advisable for you to advise on booking if you may want a meal for every night of your stay.
We'll serve your meals by candlelight in the dining room here at Walford Court with a little romantic music playing in the background. In the summer you can choose to eat outside, in the winter we’ll light you a fire. Please do feel free to bring your own wine, champagne! We are not licensed and do not charge corkage!
Dinners are served at 7pm, are for a minimum of 2 courses, and are available from Thursday to Saturday. The cost for a 3-course meal including mineral water, followed by tea/ coffee is just £28 per person, reducing to £22.50 for 2 courses.
The following are tried and tested offerings. Please note that what is offered is very much seasonal, and so is dependant on what’s available in the garden, Debbie’s store cupboard and the local butcher!
Starters
And many more! All the above are served with olive oil and sea salt fried bread/home made bread/tattie scones/hot rolls – whatever the mood takes me!
Main Courses
- Walford Court Beef Delight – Debbie’s special sauce cooks our local butchers beef veeeery slowly in the AGA – made extra special by the addition of a little horseradish before bringing it to the table - best served with creamy buttered mash. Not one to miss – ingredients are secret!
- Beef Carbonnade – local butchers beef slow cooked in the AGA with brown ale and mustard, according to season it can be served with freshly dug new potatoes, or main crops sliced and layered with onions and baked with butter and paprika.
- Spanish Chicken – Chicken breasts baked slowly with home grown tomatoes, red wine, garlic, peppers and paprika – yum with crusty bread to sop up the gravy and salad or green vegetables.
- Luxury Fish pie – Smoked haddock, smoked salmon, my girls eggs and capers in a creamy sauce topped with potatoes mashed with crème fraiche
- Herby Turkey – Juicy turkey thigh abandoned in the AGA with garlic, peppers, mushrooms, butter and lots of herbs. Great served with potatoes or buttered rice.
- Veggie Casserole with a kick – all the vegetables you can imagine, baked with a dash of Tabasco and topped with fried bread
- Three bean casserole – as the name implies! – veggies include courgettes, celery, onions and tomatoes, and I try not to be too heavy handed with the spices! – served with buttered rice
- Tagliatelle with a creamy sauce – can make this a seafood/meat or purely vegetarian option – lots of veggies stir-fried and then cooked with cream and served with steaming tagliatelle. Napkins provided to wipe your chin with!
- Mushroom Stroganoff – lots of onions and mushrooms, with butter, crème fraiche, paprika and a dash of brandy! Served with wonderful wild and brown nutty tasting rice.
- Hot Egg Curry (Madras Anday) - my girls orange yolked eggs served up in a dish from Southern India, with spices, tomato and coconut.
- Spinach, ricotta and pine nut lasagne - a cheese lovers delight - I use at least 4 different cheeses - a meat lovers converter to vegetarian lasagnes!
And many more!
Desserts - prepared and baked especially for two (or more) and we don't mind how its shared out!
- Home made crumbles with Home Grown fruits – Apple/Pear/Rhubarb or plum, served with thick custard (don’t do thin custard!)
- AGA baked rice pudding - the traditional way with nutmeg and a long slow soak!
- Apple pie to die for!
- Sponge puddings – with golden syrup, homemade jams or lemon curd, served with custard/cream/ice cream
- Bread and Butter pudding – traditional or baked with bananas and Baileys - my girl’s eggs and lots of cream used here - but who wants to diet when you're on your holidays!
Individual Desserts are pre-prepared and can be ordered in single portiions or multiple single portions!
- Plum and Cinnamon oat bake – butter/flour/sugar/oats and fresh plums – other fruits sometimes also used, make this a very satisfying dessert, but not one for the dieters
- Fruity tray bake - rich and fruity sponge bake.
- Chocolate Fudgy Slices
- Carrot cake - a lovely lemony version - no raisons or nuts and its an egg and gluten free version.
- Ice cream combos – can serve your ice cream with fresh fruits/ sauces made from our fruits – tell me what you’d like!
And many more!