Author: Chef and Griddle

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Winter Weddings

Winter Weddings

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to another exciting hog blog from the hog roast caterer team.  Its Tuesday the 18th of October 2011 and although we have only just entered the Autumn season it feels like winter has well and truly arrived!  As I look out of the window and see the dull grey sky and the rain pouring down it seems like Winter is well underway.

But never mind as it may be Winter but I still have many jobs booked in to keep me busy 🙂 This year I especially have lots of Winter wedding catering to look forward to.  Winter weddings were basically unheard of when I first began working in the catering industry many moon ago, but nowadays they are becoming more and more popular.   Why is this?  Well I can think of a few reasons;  Many people want to get married on the same day that they met and sometimes this falls on a day in the winter season, also people are becoming more and more interested in the romantic Christmas themed weddings and finally sometimes it easier to tie the knot out of the Summer season as there is more availability for you plus better value prices!

So if you are planning a winter wedding yourself why not check out the menus and packages that the hog roast caterer team have on offer?  After all we just love to cater for wedding events and with our great choices you are sure to find something just right for your big day.

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Menu 3

Good morning and welcome to Mondays Hog Blog!!!

Its been a cold start to the week this week and the snow is about to start by Friday in the U.K., this doesn’t seem to be bothering any of our clients as we have had many phone calls so far today from people wanting us to caterer their events this weekend take a look at our most popular menu.

Menu Three

Spit Roasted Pig Served With Apple Sauce, Stuffing & Crispy Crackling

Bread Rolls and Selection of Sauces

Chefs Choice of Two Freshly Prepared Salads

Warm New Potatoes in Herb Butter.

Price Includes Serving Tables, Disposable Crockery And Napkins.

Food Served As A Buffet

£850.00 .

Based on 100 people on a Sunday in August 2011

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This Menu Includes:

A chef and catering assistant to prepare and carve your chosen meat.

Prepare all dishes fresh on site using raw ingredients while meat is cooking 

Lay serving table with tablecloth, disposable crockery and napkins.

All our rubbish to be cleared away discretely and taken off site.

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Machine Hire

Good morning Hog Blog readers today I have decided to deliver a couple of our machines as we have no events booked in until tomorrow which means it is very quiet

The machines that I will be delivering will be out on hire for the weekend and the clients are wanting them to be collected on Monday morning with the hire option you can have the machine from 24 hours up to 7 days all for the same price of 250 pounds!!! .

We have  3 types of hires that we are offering at the moment. If you want just the machine without any meats or other equipment we can drop the clean machine off at the location of your event, then come back after your event and pick up the machine. We do charge a small amount if you would like to return the machine  back to us dirty so the choice is absolutely yours.
The second type of hire we are able to offer is either the professional or titan machines both of these machine can cook a different variety of meats if your looking to cook something a little bit different.
Our deluxe hire option includes the set up of a full event by our team including condiments, tableware, side dishes, serving table, chafing dishes with fuel, an optional pop up gazebo and other items along with one or more of our great machines plus meats of your choice. All you have to do is turn the machine on and your meat will be cooked to perfection.

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A Thursday In The Life Of A Hog Roast Caterer

A Thursday in The Life Of A Hog Roast Caterer

Hello and welcome to another hog blog brought to you by the hog roast caterer team.  Its Thursday today and whilst I have no catering events to do today I am very busy preparing things for the weekend as myself and the other hog chefs have lots of events to cater for this weekend.

Thursday is always a good day to get things sorted out for the next hectic weekend.  Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday seem to be our busiest days in the office for enquiries coming through via email and telephone but by Thursday things in the office are a little quieter which gives us a chance to prepare for the weekends events. 

Preparing for the events ahead can include all sorts of tasks.  Today I need to visit the local farmers market to pick up some last minute ingredients that I will need for an event tomorrow (apples for apple sauce and tomatoes for our Mediterranean salad)  then I need to do a full check of the staff Rota for Saturday and Sundays events and decide who will be doing what tasks at the events.  When these tasks are done I will be doing a final checklist to make sure we have the correct items for the first event (enough napkins, correct type of crockery, enough uniforms etc) then I will start to load up the Hog Roast Caterer van so I will ready to set off tomorrow and travel to my first event.

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Business Event

Hello and welcome to the final Hog Blog of the week.

The team and I are making sure everything is in order for this weekends functions that will be taking place. I have managed to get the weekend off which is great news for me, but the catering team will be heading off in the morning to an event which is taking place about 20 minutes away from the office.

 The snow that was promised for today is nowhere to be seen as usual the weather forecast was wrong but hopefully that will be the same story for the weekend as there will be 750 people at tomorrows Central Lancashire Business Event looking forward to an exciting day.

 The sun is out and it is looking to be quite a nice day today in fact and we know that some of you will be enjoying a delicious hog roast this evening before the weather turns, as this month has got to have been one of the busiest months yet for hog roast machine hires!!!! and still the enquiries have been flooding into the office today for Saturday and this Sunday. We are able to deliver our machines with next day delivery so don’t hesitate today and contact us if you are wanting to enjoy he delights of a mouth watering Hog Roast .

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Machine Delivery

Its Thursday the 6th of October and time for another Hog Blog 🙂

The weather seems to be getting worse it is raining heavily outside, but not to worry as we are not quite in winter yet and the sunshine may make an appearance sometime this month if we are lucky.

Today we have been busy taking machine hire bookings all week it seems that many clients are wanting to try a little bit of D.I.Y with our wonderful Hog Roast machines and wanting to cook the Hog themselves.

This is becoming more and more popular and clients are regularly hiring our machines more than once for events throughout the year for things such as birthdays Christenings family get togethers an our favorite summer garden parties.

Today the team and I  have decided to deliver a few of the Spit Roast Machines  ourselves, this afternoon I will be heading off to deliver a machines to one of our clients that previously hired the machine and someone to cook the pig we supplied in January and he also used our services the year before, he was amazed at how beautifully the meat cook and how prefect the end result of the Hog looked whilst still on the machine just the sight of our machines cooking the meat is mouth watering as it cooks to a golden brown colour with crispy cracking on top.

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Autumn Wedding

Hello and welcome to Wednesdays Hog Blog

Tomorrow me and the rest of the catering team will be heading out to cater at an Autumn Wedding which is all very exciting as the Bride and groom will be tucking into a tasty hog roast buffet in the evening with their guests they want the event to be quite relaxed and informal in the evening as we will be serving our most popular wedding menu in the afternoon for half of the guests they are wanting the afternoon meal as a sit down meal take a look at their menu choice for the afternoon:

 Menu Three

 

 (V) Mini Quiche

Delicately Prepared Fresh Pastry Cases With A Variety Of Fillings.

(V) Wild Mushroom Bouchees

Puff Pastry Cases Packed With A Creamy Mushroom, Garlic And Thyme Filling.

Chicken Satay

Skewered Marinated Chicken Strips Served With A Peanut Dip.

Dip.

Grilled Fillet of Beef

Lightly Grilled Fillet of Beef Served With a Salsa Verde Encroute

Smoke Salmon on Fresh Brown Bread

With Black Pepper and Fresh Lemon Wedges

Main Course

BBQ 100% Beef 6oz Handmade Burgers, Chefs Own Gourmet sausage.

Chicken Kebabs & Meaty Marinated Spare Ribs.

Crusty Bread Rolls and Selection of Sauces

Green Leaf, Tomato & Basil, Carrot & Orange With Sesame Dressing, Coleslaw

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Warm New Potatoes in Herb Butter

Pudding

Profiteroles

Choux Pastry Buns Loaded With Whipped Cream And Smothered In Chocolate Sauce.

Cheesecake

Handmade Individual Cheese Cakes, With a Light Delightful Creamy Cheese Filling Set on a Crunchy Biscuit Crumb Base.

 

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Hog Roast Caterer Saves The Day

Good morning, and welcome to the first hog roast catering blog of the month. Hope you are all well on this dull day cant you tell we are getting close to Christmas with the dark sky’s and freezing mornings. we are very happy to say that we are busier then ever with people booking for Christmas events and such. we have also had many bookings for bonfire night so if you need us get calling now and we are happy to help before we are fully booked.

Today I just wanted to let you all no about a call we had from a very upset and busy costumer, her wedding is in two weeks and the food wasn’t even close to being sorted, you can see why she was worried. so she decided to ring hog roast catering to found out more about the food and service we provided after talking to her and giving her all the information she needed she was very pleased and decided to book with us straight away, this meant she had one less task to do for her big day and was a another very happy costumer. So if you ever find yourself in this situation don’t hesitate to ring us for any information.

Well best get back to work I can hear the phones are ringing, hopefully the next costumer will be you. Thank you all for reading hope you have a great day and keep checking back for more blogs from hog roast caterer.

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Hot BBQ Food

Good Morning and welcome to the last Hog Blog of the week we have had busy week this week.

November looks to be certainly one of the busier months this year with many people calling up the office and also sending emails through wanting to book November the 5th also known as bonfire night we have a wide range of menus for this type of event take a look at the meats we have to offer!

Spit Roasted Chicken Served With Chipolata Sausage, Stuffing and Homemade Onion Gravy

BBQ 100% Beef 6oz Handmade Burgers, Chefs Own Gourmet sausage.

Thai Chicken Kebabs & Meaty Marinated Spare Ribs.

Plus Vegetarian Option

Crusty Bread Rolls and Selection of Sauces

Fresh Green Leaf, Tomato & Basil, Carrot & Orange With Sesame Dressing, Waldorf, Classic Caesar, Coleslaw, Crispy Thai Salad.

Seasonal Vegetables

Jacket Wedges, New Potato Salad, Warm New Potatoes In Herb Butter, Jacket Potatoes, New Potatoes Roasted With Rosemary And Garlic.

Price Includes Serving Tables, All Crockery And Disposable Napkins.

This Menu Includes:

A Spitting Pig chef, catering assistant and waiting staff to prepare and carve your chosen meat.

Prepare all dishes fresh on site using raw ingredients while meat is cooking 

Lay serving table with tablecloth, real crockery and napkins.

All our rubbish to be cleared away discretely and taken off site.

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Hog Roasting Fun

Good Morning and welcome to another hog blog!!!!

 Its Thursday which means the weekend is just around the corner. 🙂

Its been non stop for us and the catering team this week, several members of the team will be hitting the roads today and tomorrow driving out and about to deliver our fantastic machines to our hire customers.

Our customers are obviously taking advantage of the fine weather and planning their own out door parties and events for the lovely sunny evenings that we are enjoying at the moment. 

This is great news for us as we have had a big increase in hog roast hire enquiries and bookings especially this week usually the end of the week is quieter but it seems the hotter weather is putting people in the mood for a hog roast.

We are hiring our machines out so customers can do their very own meat roasts.  This is a very enjoyable and cost effective way to enjoy the hog roast experience, we can even supply the pig for our customers to enjoy.