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Hog Friends

 

The world of hog roast catering is one which is continually full of shocks and surprises. Of course, not all of them are positive experience- far from it in fact, as sometimes the weather can really put an awful dampener on the festivities. On the whole, however, the experiences that can be had in the wonderful world of hog and spit roast catering can be wonderful and excellent. Just today, for example, we had the unexpected joy of welcoming a visitor who we had not seen for many months. This person was once a client who had a wedding event catered for by us. Similar to many other clients who have had hog and spit roast catered events with us over the years, this lady sure livened up our day with the lively prospects of the plans she was formulating for her summer event. Based around the central theme of the 1920’s, our friends regaled us with her ambitious plans. Forming the catering aspect of the event sounded like a great idea, and it was something that our events team took to with much gusto. Although it is the case that the ever shifting culinary landscape of Great Britain changes often, and has done so in favour of hog and spit roast catered events in the recent years, we still gain huge support from our repeat customers. New is good but an old friend is always nice.

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A day in the life of a hog roast caterer (part 2)

 

Hello there to all of our hog roast caterer blog readers.  Hope you are all well and having a fantastic day despite the miserable weather 🙁

My name is Gav and I am one of the younger members of the hog roast catering team.  I have been working as a hog roast caterer for about three years now and I absolutely love my job.  No two days of the week are ever the same, there is always lots to do and as I love working with others and have a true passion for creating quality, tasty food this is the job for me.

Today my main task as a hog roast caterer is a site visit.  A site visit is where we go and see the potential customer’s at their desired venue and discuss with them how we would set up and serve on the day.  I am meeting a couple today at a near by country hotel.  They are considering hiring our services for their wedding catering next Summer, they are very interested in our menus and happy with the quote we have sent them so today its up to me to impress and seal the deal!

I will be taking along some samples of our menus for them to taste and will be able to discuss with them in length exactly what we will do to make their special day hassle free.  So I had better get going because this hog roast caterer does not want to be late for such an important meeting.  Chow for now hog blog readers

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Sporting events and our tasty BBQ’s

Hello there!  Its time for the first hog blog of the week 🙂 I have had a very busy weekend with lots of catering events on.  My favourite event this weekend was a charity sports event in my home town.  I was delighted to be asked to provide bbq catering for the special event. 

As much as I love to do a good hog roast its always nice to have a  change and do something different so I really enjoyed doing the bbq catering for this event.  Our bbq menus are always popular at these types of events particularly through the warmer months. 

The day was cantered around cricket and there was ten teams involved in the torment.  The event began at lunch time and went on until it went dark.  So it was lucky I took extra food for my bbq catering feast.  I cooked up tasty burgers, sausages and marinated chicken legs all served with fresh bread and a selection of my home made secret recipe sauces and chutneys. 

It was a long day for everyone but it was great fun.  I also got to see some regular customers as well as meet some new friendly faces.  Many people had lots of questions about hog roast caterer and what we do so I was able to share information and pass on details of how to book us for hog roast and bbq catering.  One of the young families I was speaking too has already telephoned the office and booked us to do some of our bbq catering at a birthday party that they are holding next month.

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Goodbye to March and Hello April hog roasting events

Welcome once again to our Hog Roast Caterer Blog

It’s Thursday today and the end of March yet the start of another month, yes April Fools day tomorrow. How quick these months are passing!! I’m sure a few April Fools day tricks will be happening throughout the UK and in our office 🙂

Anyway let me tell you about the sort of things we have forthcoming in April in the Hog Roasting world. We are catering quite a few School’s summer Fairs hopefully without the April showers??!! We are finding that our calendar is slowly but surely getting booked up on certain days now, so if you are thinking of holding a party and are wanting our service’s be sure to get in touch- if you find that we are booked up for the catered services you could always try our Hire option where you can have one of our machines delivered to you with the preferred meat for you to cook and we will collect it back from you after your event has taken place.

 We have quite a lot of Weddings taking place this month some even being held in customer’s own Back Gardens- one of our Couples are to be married in a Tipee?? Not really sure how this works- Indians lived in them didn’t they? All the same it sounds interesting and a little different. So good luck for them on there special day. The weather is stop – start, rain-sun but always happy to get your custom and deliver a gorgeous Hog roast or Spit roast.

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Gateway to the weekend

Hello Hog roast caterer blog readers, its Wednesday already or as I like to call it “the gateway to the weekend” after all we are half way through another working week and half way there to another weekend.  Its forecast to be a great weekend with lots of sunny Spring weather all over the UK.  Luckily for me I have quite a few outdoor events to cater for this Saturday and Sunday so I will be outside basking in the warm glow of the April sun.  I always enjoy my job but this time of year makes it even better.    I hope everybody has made exciting plans that involve being outside and making the most of the glorious weather.  If you are not sure what to do why not try a hog roast hire this weekend? You could hire you very own hog roast machine and have great fun cooking a big in the sunshine before treating yourself and your friends and family to some very tasty grub.  With our amazing hog roast hire deals you simply cant go wrong.  Not only are they great value for money but we also take care of delivery, collection and the gas that you need.  If you require we can even bring you a pig.  So what are you waiting for make the most of the weekend and throw your very own hog roast party curtsey of our amazing hog roast hire offer!

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Mid week BBQ in March

Hello everyone and thanks for taking the time to read Tuesdays hog blog.  It’s been wonderful weather here recently and today is no exception as the Sun is shinning and I’m lucky enough to be heading off out to do another outdoor catering event.

Today its a bbq catering event.  So I will be cooking up a selection of meaty treats for the 50 guests.  They are enjoying a mid week garden party to celebrate a family members early retirement party.  We are cooking quality sausages, burgers and steaks.  To compliment them we have home made sauces and relishes as well as fresh bread rolls and tasty salads.  I love a bbq catering event and I’m sure the customers will do too.

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New and improved wedding menus coming soon

Happy Friday to all the hog roast caterer blog readers.  Before the weekends events begin we are in the office doing some work on our wedding menus.  Wedding catering is such a huge part of what we do and particularly in the Spring and Summer months wedding catering covers over 50 per cent of our work.  For this reason we want to make sure that the wedding menus, packages and services that we are offer are still relevant and up to high standards.  So today myself and the other chefs sat down and went through all of the wedding menus to see if we can make adjustments to offer an even better wedding catering service.  This will be an ongoing project for us over the next few weeks.  Using our own experience and customer feed back we will be discussing the possibilities of trying new ideas and maybe testing some new recopies so we can add extra choice to the menus.

So watch this space because our already fantastic menus are about to become even better!  We love wedding catering and so naturally the whole team is very excited about this new project.  For those who have tried and tasted our wedding menus in the past fear not we won’t be changing them too drastically the will still essentially have the great choice and taste of a good old hog roast caterer wedding menu.  Well time to get going better hit the road and get to the first hog roast event of the weekend.  Hope all of blog readers have a great weekend.

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Friday Eve piggy blog

Its Thursday once again or as we like to call it FRIDAY EVE!! That’s right almost weekend once again which means our busiest two days of the week are about to begin!  I personally can’t wait to hit the road of start this weekend events.  Its what I love most about being a hog roast caterer.  I have been lucky enough to book some time off this weekend but the rest of the team are booked up with hog roast events which is great for the month of March.  So lets take a look at what’s on the agenda this weekend………………  First event will be tomorrow night a lovely private party just down the road from the hog roast caterer office.  Its a joint birthday celebration Mother and daughter are celebrating their mile stone birthdays together (50th and 21st) and have dedcided to enjoy a hog roast at their party.  They have invited over 180 guests between them so as well as roasting a full hog we are also taking several balled and rolled joints as well to ensure that there is plenty of piggy for all the hungry party goers! 

Saturday morning its a very early start as we have to be up early to begin another tasty hog roast and make sure everything is cooked to perfection and ready for a lunch time serve.  This event is a local sports event.  A couple of local rugby teams are holding a special fund raising match and we are more than happy to be providing them and their spectators  with a tasty pork roll at half time.  Unusually I have no events booked in for Saturday night or Sunday so I will be having a well deserved rest and perhaps a couple of cheeky beers before another action packed week begins again for this hog roast caterer.

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Happy hog roast caterer :)

Hello everybody welcome to Tuesday’s blog.  Hope you are all well and having a wonderful day.  I am certainly a happy little hog roaster caterer today 🙂 not only is the weather fantastic with bright clear sky’s and a warm breeze but business is booming at the moment and I can’t stop smiling to myself.  Bookings are already coming in for the Summer months as everyone’s starts to finalize their events, parties and plans for the warmer months.  I also have a small event to do this afternoon at a local school and I’m really looking forward to that.  The children at this school are learning about medieval times so we are doing a hog roast for them to show how this method was done traditionally in the olden times.  Of course afterwards each child will also get to try one of our fabulous pork rolls as a little snack before they go home for their tea.  The weekend coming up is also packed with lots of different styles of events so once again I will be a very busy but very, very happy hog roast caterer.  Life is good 🙂

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The week begins with a hog roast and a lamb roast

Good afternoon hg roast caterer lovers!  Its Monday the 21st of March and its time for anther exciting hog blog from everybody’s favourite hog roasters…… The hog roast caterer team.  Its been a busy weekend yet again and we have been rushing around all over doing hog roast catering events as well as delivering and collecting our hog roast machines from our loyal hog roast hire customers.  Now its the start of another action packed week and its   time for yet another tasty hog roast to be cooked by us the hog roast caterer team.  We are coking a hog roast AND a lamb roast for  a charity event this afternoon.  We will be feeding over 300 hungry fundraisers as they finish their sponsored work.  After all that working and hard work they can tuck into a tasty pork in a roll sandwich with apple sauce and stuffing or a mouth watering lamb in a roll with mint sauce.  The walk is being done to raise some pennies for a local children’s charity so naturally we are honoured to be taking part and as always our hog roast will be the star of the event!