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All the latest BM Caterers news, including podcasts, blogs, recipes, restaurant reviews and insightful reports.

the Planet Mark Acre
News

BARTLETT MITCHELL AWARDED THE PLANET MARK ACRE OF RAINFOREST CERTIFICATION

bartlett mitchell, the first contract caterer to achieve certification to The Planet Mark has been awarded The Planet Mark Acre

Christmas Pudding
Blog

Christmas Pudding – A Great Tradition

Christmas pudding, figgy pudding, plum pudding whatever you like to call it this famous pudding, traditionally served at the end

Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake

The perfect Christmas cake, well this is a hard one! Why? because everyone’s Christmas is different, some people have recipes

Cheeseboard

Cheeseboard

Method   Arrange the cheeses on a large platter or cutting board along with the wet walnuts, jelly, endive leaves,

Christmas Mincemeat and Apple Tart With a Set Custard

Method Roll out the pastry and fold into a pastry case Bake blind at 190c until cooked Mix the mincemeat

SEMI-DRIED WINTER FRUITS WITH CALVADOS CREAM

Semi-dried Winter Fruits with Calvados Cream

Preparation For the syrup, split the vanilla pod in half lengthways Line 1-2 large baking trays with parchment paper Method

potatoes
Blog

Winter Vitality – for the love of potatoes

We’ve just left behind September, the harvest month, full of a huge variety of seasonal fruit and vegetables. As we

Christmas Shortbread

Christmas Shortbread

Method 1. Place the flour, butter, ground spices, salt and bicarbonate of soda in a mixing bowl and combine until

Macroon

Cranberry and Pine Nut Macaron

  This recipe will make 40 macarons.  This is a recipe that cannot be halved easily, but once the macaron

Spruce butter

Spruce butter/oil

How green can you be? Eat your own Christmas Tree Heston Blumenthal re-invented the humble mince pie with a special

Baked celeriac

Baked celeriac with hazelnuts and parmesan

Method Set your oven to 170 °c Leave the celeriac whole but make sure you give it a wash to

Marmite and turkey bread sauce

Marmite and turkey bread sauce

Method Add the onions and 50g of the turkey juices to pan, then add the bay leaves and nutmeg. Cook

Sloe Gin Fizz

This cocktail is going to impress your friends and family. Don’t be scared about creating a hot and cold cocktail,

The clink charity
News

Bartlett Mitchell partners with The Clink Charity

We are delighted to announce a new partnership with The Clink Charity to supply its premium coffee brand Perkee and

Blog

An interview with Adam Byatt

Can you recall the moment or moments in which you made the decision to make food your life and what

social enterprise
News

Senior figures call on catering industry to embrace value of social enterprise

The foodservice sector needs to do more to showcase the commercial value social enterprises can bring to workplace clients, according

waste
Blog

#Wasted

Waste not want not is a commonly used saying as we all know but I fear that not everyone lives

Training
Blog

Spilling the beans

At Perkee, training is key to developing our Baristas. It gives them the tools required to be able to deliver

5 Star -bmfamily simple - lockdown - industry
Blog

Keep It Simple

Wendy writes a quarterly article for The Caterer, in this article she talks about keeping things simple. When I started

cser/Sustainable Development Goals
News

bartlett mitchell commits to United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals

bartlett mitchell, one of the UK’s leading independent caterers, has today published its latest CSER report, announcing that it will

harri
Blog

harri – Helping the best people join the #bmFamily💜💚

Here at bartlett mitchell we are obsessive about our people; as Wendy Bartlett said “The members of the #bmFamily???????? really are

Autumn
Blog

Embrace the simplicity of late summer

The summer is fading fast, the leaves are falling, and as we find ourselves on the brink of Autumn, a

Katarina Goodwin
News

Leadership team strengthened with Katarina Goodwin appointment

bartlett mitchell, one of the UK’s leading independent caterers, has today announced the appointment of Katarina Goodwin as people and

Beekeeping
Blog beekeeping

Getting a buzz out of beekeeping

Beekeeping is an expensive, unpredictable, disappointing but very rewarding and extremely satisfying hobby. For nearly ten years, we have kept