One Pot Wonder

So we took a hiatus from One Pot Wonder. In all honesty, it was extremely hard with food prices, energy and work commitments to generate anything near the amount of money needed without charging 30 quid a serving. We have managed our 5k target through other means (Mark Talbots off-roading enthusiasm/ ingenuity knows no bounds). I had a moment of inspiration recently after a shoddy buttermilk chicken effort at a restaurant in the lakes, tonight I took to the kitchen to make my own version. Buttermilk chicken with coriander, chilli and homemade chipotle sour cream mayo. Feeling inspired - any suggestions for a side🍗👩‍🍳

Christmas charity Raffle!
Running a Christmas Raffle for St Mary’s hospice.

Generous donations from local businesses are coming in and already at over £100 in value. We will be adding more gifts and vouchers over the next few weeks and updating the list as we go.

These will make fantastic Christmas gifts for people and we will draw Saturday night the 9th December.

Gifts so far are:

£35 voucher for Efflorescence florist

£40 voucher for Mia Bella Hair with Charlene

A Microdermabrasion Facial with Venessa at Beauty at 58

Sweet afternoon tea for two from Cheese & Teas

Raffle tickets are £5 for a strip of 5.
If you buy multiple strips we can give you random pages rather than consecutive if you want. 😉

Absolutely thrilled to have One Pot Wonder on board for Barrows contribution to Cumbria Unity Festival, you'll find Mark and Rachael in our international food tasting area on the 8th July, offering delicious samples of their dishes.

One pot wonder has been opened with the aim of rasing vital funds for St Mary's hospice which is close to all of our hearts here in Cumbria! And exactly what Cumbria Unity Festival is about.. Community!

If you would like to make a donation please follow the link below and make sure you check out the page and get ordering

https://www.justgiving.com/team/ebcapril2024

Most of our Thai curries we have been making at the moment contain Shrimp Paste as part of the authentic flavours. We are looking into fully vegan friendly options and testing some flavours to try and get a really tasty curry without the animal products. I have a feeling a Green Curry with Aubergines will be on the cards soon. Here is one I made with Tofu whilst camping last year (no-one wants raw king praws in their backpack)

So the numbers have been calculated. We did 29 portions over last night and this morning. Plus a few people rounded up as a generous donation so we took in £141. The ingredient costs and extra containers were £91. We haven’t taken into account setup costs for the kitchen, equipment, labour or delivery costs. Profit margin was therefore only £1.72 per portion. Won’t be giving up the day job anytime soon BUT long story short is that we made £50 that has been donated to St Mary’s via our just giving page. Thanks for the orders, comments & feedback. We look forward to doing it again soon. By all means you can just donate if you wish.

Everest Base Camp St Mary's Hospice April 2024

Todays special was Chicken Thai Curry with Egg Noodles. 13 portions were certainly not an unlucky number for those that had them for their lunch today!

The BioPak pots didn’t work so well last night so will be contacting the manufacturer as we have 580 of them left! 😂 They were bought with best intentions of being more eco friendly but unfortunately we had to resort to plastic for todays offering. We want to be a responsible business but can’t have soggy pots again!

Busy making Chicken Curry for Lunch at the Oncology Ward for the staff at Furness General Hospital this morning.

Well first night of trading done. One of the most stressful things we have ever done. Managed not to fall out too much in the kitchen. We managed to fulfil all orders and deliver them personally to everyone around Barrow and Walney. 16 portions of King Prawn Panang curry and Sticky Rice. All paperwork filled out too. Thanks you all for the support. Another batch to do tomorrow for the NHS workers at Furness General Hospital and then I will add up the takings and costings and donate the difference to Charity.

Thanks for the support and the orders for food tonight and tomorrow lunch. That’s all I can manage food wise this week as away the weekend but we are also doing a Grand National Winners fund raising card. £5 a horse. 50/50 split between the winner and Hospice! Please let me know which horse you would like. First come first served.

These meals will be made fresh and ready to eat. I can’t advise best before dates but you know when you put that leftover Chinese in the fridge and eat it a few days later and it’s all good?…. just saying.

Seems Prawn 🍤 Thai Panang Curry is more popular than Beef 🥩 Bolognaise. So if I can get 6 people below to say yes I will do Thai Curry with Jasmine Rice for delivery Thursday evening rather than Bolognaise for the same price £8 as a one off special. Let’s have your votes.

So our profile photo at the moment is our slow cooked Bolognaise sauce. It might not be an authentic Bologna recipe but with a soffitto base (onion, celery and carrot), beef mince, tomato passata and red wine it is certainly packed with flavour. I have done it with mushrooms too in the past but that could offend the purists! I may do a batch on Thursday. Pot of Bolognaise sauce 630ml (same size as Chinese take away) enough for two people ready to eat for £7 or I can supply cooked pasta for two (180 grams dry) for £1 delivered in Barrow or Walney. That’s £8 for a home cooked meal for two delivered to your door. There will be enough for 6 people so first come first served for 🚚 📦 Thursday Evening! All profits to St Mary’s Hospice as part of our Everest Base Camp trek next year with LMG Treks & Expeditions

Proud to announce we are using BioPak packaging for all our meals. This special container is made from BioCane which is sugarcane pulp. It’s carbon neutral, biodegradable, composable can be put in the freezer, microwave or even the oven. Bought in a bill of 600 units so should keep us going for a while!

We haven’t been actively trading yet and wanting to keep things quiet until now as we wanted to get this out of the way with first. Please to say we are very proud to announce we got a rating of 5.