Cooking with ingredients that love sunshine for people who love flavour
I’m Ina Pegley; Tanamerah is my food business.
I grew up in Indonesia, lived and married in Italy, and have been based in Haslemere for 30 years. My cooking draws on Indonesian and other Asian cuisines, including Middle Eastern, with influences from Italy and other Mediterranean countries. Cooking with ingredients that love sunshine, for people who love flavour!
I offer private catering, from a small dinner party for friends, to a special event for hundreds. I do staff parties and client entertaining for companies too.
From time to time, I run supper club events at my own home, or pop-up restaurants at other venues.
And I plan to do a lot more online cooking lessons and recipes. Sign up below to get an email every time I publish something new.
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Tanamerah Takeaway
Six years on from one of my biggest catering jobs, and things are very different. No big events. No small events! So, like many restaurants, I’ve turned my hand to cooking on a much smaller scale. Prompted by requests from friends and old customers, I have started offering takeaway meals. Or rather, dishes that I deliver to people’s homes—which is how my business started, 20 years ago!
The plan is to offer a new menu every week, which I’ll post on Instagram. To keep things manageable I’ll make deliveries on Friday for orders received by the Monday morning before. My initial idea is to deliver to customers within a ten-mile radius of Haslemere—but I’m sure I can be flexible on that.
Easy-to-make recipes to add variety to a locked-in life
Indonesian fried rice
(nasi goreng)
The last thing anyone wants to think about right now is elaborate dinners. But we all have to eat, and I thought my friends and followers might appreciate some ideas for what to cook while we’re limited to shopping at the nearest supermarket (and hoping that their shelves aren’t empty!)
I’m posting a few recipes that don’t require difficult-to-find ingredients, and which might add some interesting variety to the usual repertoire. This is one of them.
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Airbnb for eating out
When you’re allowed to see your friends again, why not get together at one of my supper clubs
When the crisis has passed and we’re all allowed out again how about getting together with a bunch of friends for a meal? Come to my place and I’ll cook you a bespoke three-or-four-course dinner for no more than you’d spend for a bite in the average pub. Factor in cheap drinks—you bring your own—and it’s terrific value. The food’s pretty good too!
A small selection of my food: click for descriptions
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