We are eating Ottolenghi style so everything will come out as quickly as Alan can carry it!
turned into a dazzling, lip shaking salad.
Salads

Anything green with a sweet tahini sauce - broccoli, peas, asparagus and spinach all mixed together in a soy, honey, garlic and tahini dressing, Asia meets the Middle East.

Cucumber and poppy seed salad - ordinary somewhat dull cucumber is given an overdue makeover and

Pink grapefruit and Sumac salad - something about the word "grapefruit" makes people pull funny faces, it's one of those love or hate things. I promise you will never look at this unassuming underused fruit in the same way again.

Eastern slaw - have a think about coleslaw, erase that food memory from your mind then eat this one and make this the one you crave for.

Turkish shepherds salad - tomato, cucumber, herbs and croutons all mixed together in a bowl of sunshine.

Now for the hot stuff

Cauliflower and cumin fritter with lime yogurt - a bit like a pakora these little parcels of joy will make your heart sing, I bet you can't just have one.

Butternut squash with pistachio, feta and pomegranate seeds - Butternut squash is a firm favourite and dinner and has people fighting over the left overs.

Roasted peppers drizzled with olive oil.

Cauliflower cake - first time on the menu and hopefully not the last - if I can get it out of the tin!

Roast baby new potatoes.

For dessert

Meringue - you can't have an Ottolenghi inspired dinner party without them!

Cardamom and rosewater poached pears - heaven on a plate.

If you have room there is a selection of foreign and local cheese some hard, some soft - so soft they are practically gooey served with grapes, walnuts, figs and biscuits.

Freshly ground coffee served with a variety of after dinner mints. There is also Yorkshire tea, mint tea, green tea, liquorice tea, pomegranate and apple tea and decaf coffee if anyone wants one.