This one had an under-the-sea theme. Alys ran the kitchen and deserves the credit.

FIRST COURSE

Seahorse bread – we made bread sculpted into seahorses. They looked great.

Blue soup – the bean variety.

Kraken platters – a tentacle for each table (hedgehog mixture), with sand (frumenty), carrot starfish and sea urchins (can’t remember what they were).

Coral reef – a lamb stew with food-coloured cauliflower standing up in it.

SECOND COURSE

Fish pies – actually apple and almond meal pies, shaped to look like fish (idea from Jane Tuckwell) – they looked fabulous.

Sea foam – egg whites whipped with sugar, served with marzipan and gingerbread sea-themed cutouts.