CHEF INSPIRED MEALS FOR A YUMMY PRICE

By SAMANTHA ELLEY

When Claudia Lawrence went on holidays with her family and didn’t want to cook, she noticed a gap in the market when it came to buying quality meals.

“We’d be at the local Woolies spending a fortune to make stuff or at the local bowlo for a crumbed schnittie,” she said.

“I wanted something nice to eat and was looking for a meal delivery company, like we had in Sydney, in regional Australia.”

Keeping that idea in mind and after their sea-change to Ballina, Claudia decided to put her plans into action.

“We moved here fve years ago and started cooking, hired a chef and it grew from there,” she said.

“Since then we’ve built a state-of-the-art kitchen.”

And with that the meal delivery service, Dinner is Served was born and has been providing chef-inspired meals for families to eat at home.

“We also have subsidised meals for people on NDIS or a home care plan,” said Claudia.

“We offer a weekly menu and customers can view it and order online.

“If people have meals included in their home care plan, we make them really affordable for those who can’t cook or shop for themselves.”

Considering that this is

Seniors Week, Claudia was keen for older residents of Ballina and surrounding areas to know their service was available.

With executive chef Etienne Karner at the helm in the spacious commercial kitchen, meals like slow braised you this week.

“Etienne was previously the chef at Byron at Byron,” said Claudia.

“He was headhunted from Sydney, where he worked at the Park Hyatt, Sydney and before that, he was in Dubai.” beef brisket with potato gratin, broccolini and red wine sauce or spinach ricotta raviolis, brown butter emulsion, broccoli and pepitas, could be served up to

The meals are incredibly well-priced with single serves averaging about $15 or for two around $30.