Travel chef

Planning your next get away?
Hire one of our travel chef

Planning your holiday? have future business abroad? If you need a private chef traveling anywhere in the UK or abroad to be at your service while you enjoy your holiday or business trip, Galor will arrange your very own chef for your private home, villa, yacht, private jet or chalet. We are the UK's private chef and personal chef service that are committed to finding you the perfect chef.

With our travel chef service you will be able to relax and enjoy your vacation in style and be fully concentrated on your business.

We have an extensive pool of high caliber, talented private chefs, available to offer their services on either a temporary or full time basis. Our private chefs are particularly adept at accommodating your daily schedule and your travel itinerary. Galor personal chef service will tailor the service to meet your specific needs and desires.

Recipe of the month - Classic Osso Buco

An Italian dish whose name refers to the large piece of marrow in the center of the veal shank bone. Don't forget the bread, you will need it to mop up the amazing sauce!. Serves 4.

1/2 cup flour
4 pieces of veal osso buco
Olive oil for cooking
3 cloves of garlic
1 diced onion
2 diced celery sticks
2 bay leafs
1/2 cup of dry white wine
1-1/2 cups chicken stock
6 fresh tomatoes chopped finely
3 spoons of parsley
1 spoon of lemon zest
Salt and pepper

Method

Season the veal shanks with salt and pepper and coat well on both sides with flour. Sear the veal on each side 2 to 3 minutes, or until crusty and brown. Remove to a warm platter

In the same pot, saute the garlic, celery and onion over medium heat for about 6 minutes, or until softened and fragrant. Stir in the wine and the chicken stock. Bring the liquid in the pot to the boil, then add the tomatoes and the bay leafs. Return the veal shanks to the pot, pressing each one to the bottom and covering tightly. Cook the veal for about 2 and a half hours or until it is just about to fall off the bone and is very tender

Add the parsley and the lemon zest and cook for another 5 minutes

Serve with risotto or rice

Start mopping! Bon Appetite

Valentine's Seduction Meal

The Seduction Meal - Celebrate your love in style and have a Valentine's menu to remember

Rather than fighting for reservations and paying an exorbitant amount for a meal in a cramped restaurant, why not dine in?, this time why not focus on romantic ambiance at home and leave the meal to the experts.

Our sample Seduction Menu in five parts

Carpaccio of organic salmon, tartare of langoustines, caviar cream and lime dressing

Poached quail egg, asparagus, hollandaise sauce & shaved truffles

Grilled sea bass in an orange, fennel marmalade on a bed of endives & gnocchi

Figs sabayon gratin with pistachios

Chocolate whiskey truffles.

Valentine's day food for Love

 

Valentine's day food for Love

So Valentine's Day is here and you're stuck yet again. What can you do differently this year? Think about it.... a good bottle of wine, candles, flowers, your favourite song in the background... mood is set.

This is just the beginning, our Valentine's day Personal Chef will create for you a bespoke menu, do the shopping, prepare and serve you if you wish, allowing you and your company to enjoy an unforgettable romantic dinner.
What more could you ask for?.

A sexy dessert - Warm chocolate volcano

3 whole eggs
3 egg yolks
4 tablespoons golden caster sugar
6 oz plain chocolate, minimum 70% cocoa
5 oz unsalted butter
8 tablespoons plain flour
6 chocolate truffles
Vanilla ice-cream or whipped cream to serve

How to make make the magic happen...

Preheat the oven to 390ºF.
Put the eggs, egg yolks and sugar into a large bowl and beat with an electric whisk for 8-10 minutes until light and fluffy.
Melt the chocolate and butter in a bain-marie.
Gently fold the flour into the egg mixture. Stir a spoonful of egg mix into the melted chocolate, then gently fold the chocolate mix into the remaining egg mix.
Put a spoonful of the mixture into each of six ramekins. Put a chocolate truffle into the centre of each, taking care not to push it down too far.
Divide the rest of the mixture between the ramekins making sure the truffle is covered. Each Ramekin should be about 3/4 full.
Bake for 10 minutes or until the top is firm and starting to rise and crack.

Remove from the ramekin and serve...Bon Appetit

Your Personal Diet Chef

Your Personal Diet Chef

We all know how hard it is to diet but imagine how easy it would be if you had your own personal chef who planned your meals, measured out the portions and did all the cooking for you. Galor personal Chef Services is the answer.

Firstly let us explain the term personal chef: a personal chef is a chef who prepares meals for a client in the client's home kitchen, based on the client's needs and personal preferences. It may vary from a one off dinner party to weekly meal planning prepared in one day. In most cases these meals are left packaged in containers and refrigerated or frozen for the client to enjoy later. The personal chef service really is as flexible as you want it to be.

Personal chefs are the affordable alternative to traditional private chefs, you don't need to engage in any contract of employment and it is definitely the more economic option.

Our personal chefs at Galor will learn your special requirements and gather information around your tastes and dietary ambitions. The personal chef will design a customised program. He/she can follow your style of diet and recipes if you wish ie. Weight Watches, Atkins and the likes. It really is the perfect way to get your healthy eating plan in action and start seeing the results you want.

The Healthier Choice -
Green Stir Fry - Serves 2

Ingredients
1/2 tablespoon groundnut or vegetable oil.
A splash of toasted sesame oil
150g broccoli florets
1 sliced spring onion
75g sliced pak choi
75g trimmed fine green beans
1 chopped garlic clove
1cm slice of fresh ginger, peeled and finely chopped
1 tablespoon fresh apple juice
1 tablespoon sesame seeds

Method:
Heat a frying pan or wok and add the groundnut and sesame oils, add the broccoli, onion, pak choi and green beans.
Stir fry for 4 minutes, after add the garlic and ginger and stir fry for another 1 minute. Pour the juice and soy sauce and cook for a few seconds (add a little water if the stir fry appears too dry) until the vegetables are just tender. Sprinkle the sesame seeds on top and serve.

The gift of a Personal Chef for a day

The gift of a Personal Chef for a day

The process of compiling a Christmas gift guide can be arduous. Buying a gift to someone special needs good thinking, and when that special one has everything, it is even harder to choose something for them that you know they will use and enjoy. We have the perfect solution...

Old folklore says that the way to someone's heart is through their stomach. A gift of a personal chef for the day will definitely do the trick. This is a unique gift that your family, friends, business partners, clients or employees will remember for a long time to come. Why not surprise someone with this original type of gift?

A personal chef experience can be tailored for many different occasion. What better way to spoil that special person. A dining in evening with the one you love. A romantic evening for two by your own personal chef makes an unusual special gift idea.

A "Private Cooking Lesson at home" voucher also makes the perfect gift for a foody. To make it work all you need to do is to contact us for a complimentary consultation to discuss the gift voucher idea that you envisage.

All the lucky recipient of the gift voucher needs to do then is let us know when they want to use our service. Galor will then provide the finest quality dining experience, completely bespoke to that special occasion.

Give us a call or email us to discuss your requirements


Delicious Cranberry Sauce Recipe

Cook 250g cranberries with 500ml water over a high heat until the fruit splits.
Strain immediately and press through a fine sieve.


Add a few spoonfuls of the cooking liquid and a little sugar to this puree. Heat well until the sauce is fairly thick.

*If you like orange you can add orange zest, or if you like cinnamon flavour, you can add a cinnamon stick. Enjoy alongside your favorite food.

Relax this Christmas

Relax this Christmas

Hello everyone! So it's that time of year again, the time for delicious food and treats. One particularly nice thing about Christmas is that most of us have the opportunity to enjoy food that we wouldn't normally choose to eat at any other time of the year.

With Christmas less than six weeks away, why not make the holiday season extra special and hire your own personal chef with Galor to create the ideal Christmas experience. Christmas Eve with Galor is ever the perfect way to allow you to relax and enjoy the company of your friends and family in a totally stress free environment.

Your personal chef will be experienced and able to deliver the best results for your chosen dishes, you won't have to worry about a thing!. For those of you who are far away from home, worry not. We fully cater to your needs, even if that means following one of mum's special recipes, for you, we'll do it.

The Perfect Christmas spuds

Fluffy on the inside, golden brown on the outside. The secret is two cooking methods. Cook the potatoes in water first and then oil. The type of potato is important, you need a floury potato, but you have to cook them for as long as you possibly can without them completely disintegrating. They need to really start breaking up, so the outside's almost pureed. And then, really delicately, lift them out of the water... be careful, if you just tip the pan out they'll start pureeing because they're so soft.

Then get your oil, and make sure you've got enough - a lot of people don't put enough oil in the pan. Baste them first so they're covered in the oil, then place them in a really hot oven and keep turning them until crusty and golden brown on the outside and fluffy on the inside. There you go the Perfect Christmas spuds.

Galor’s Demonstration Chefs

Galor’s Demonstration Chefs  At Galor personal chef service we have a great talent bank of highly skilled Demonstration Chefs for food festivals, out door and in door cookery events, private & corporate events, PR and much more. Demonstration chefs fit into all types of occasions and In home demonstrations are a delicious new kind of entertainment experience. Galor’s demonstration chefs will create a glorious meal right before your eyes which is then served to you at your table to enjoy. In August this year Craig one of our Demonstration chefs performed at London’s Foodies Festival, held in Battersea Park. Every hour four teams of two audience members took on the Ready, Steady cook challenge to create a meal from less than ten ingredients always using Tenderstem® broccoli. Contestants chose between a British, Indian, Asian and Mediterranean ingredients pack and our chef challenged the contestants to whip up the meal in just 10 minutes. The Mediterranean-inspired meals proved most successful and won the greatest amount of taste tests. It was a great success and the feedback was fantastic from both audience members and our friends at TRO Group and Tenderstem: “TRO Group and Tenderstem® were very happy with Galor’s chef performance and we will certainty use your services again.” TRO Group Marketing Agency of the Year 2011 - Marketing Magazine Give us a call or email us to discuss your requirements Recipe Of The Month - Broccoli Antipasti Ingredients 4 cups broccoli florets 1 tablespoon olive oil 3 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoons of lemon zest Pinch of chopped chilli Salt and pepper Directions: 1. Steam the broccoli to the crispness you prefer 2. Heat oil in a frying pan & turn over to moderate heat. Saute the garlic until golden 3. Stir in the lemon zest and chilli 4. Put broccoli in a bowl pour the garlic and zest over it and serve immediately Get in touch to discuss your Personal Chef requirements.

In this edition: Demonstration Chefs Recipe of the month Visit our website For more info & cooking tips visit our blog (Right) Yuda Galis Director of Galor Personal Chef Service attended the Foodies Festival (Left) Craig: Galor Demonstration Chef for the three day event in Battersea Park.