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This year is flying by!

 

Can you believe it, it is the middle of May already this year is flying really quickly hard to believe to be honest! Hog roast have been inundated with catering requests since Christmas and we have been expecting a slow period but it didn’t happen we are pleased to say. Hog roast hire had a very pleasant weekend out in the lovely sunshine yes sunshine! We were catering for a wedding and it was a rather large affair catering for three hundred guests and we were catering at a cricket club. Hog roast had been asked to suggest an appropriate menu and we were keen to give our thoughts. We suggested doing a sit down lunch and did say that it would be a shame not to incorporate the pig so we thought cream of chicken soup or vegetable soup then delicious roast pork with crunchy cracking creamed mashed potato with green beans, sweet corn and baked parsnip with apple sauce and gravy. We were also asked to cater for four vegetarian guests so Hog roast hire made a lovely nut cutlet with peas, sweet corn, red and green peppers and a lovely yogurt and garlic dressing for dessert we suggested fruit cocktail with ice cream our hosts were more than happy with the menu and on the day so was everyone! The food was exceptional and everything made fresh the day could not have been more perfect! When we left the bride and groom asked all the guests to stand and give us a round of applause we were so grateful and felt so humble we were not expecting that and felt so humble ah we thought that so nice and really felt appreciated and that we had done an exceptional job nothing pleases us more than a thank you it makes our job so worthwhile. Sunday we were out and about again this time a smaller event we were catering for our very dear friend ours co colleagues 40th birthday and she was trying to keep it quiet cant do that with us around! She really did have a fab day we all did her proud!

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A Wedding Anniversary

 

 

The hog roast team were out on Friday evening for a wedding anniversary at our local three hundred were expected to turn up and well over three hundred did! The menu was simple jacket potatoes with chicken and bacon, cheese and chive and hot chilli mix fillings, we also cooked rows of chicken and lamb and when the meat was cooked we then chopped and prepared the salads. We pride our self’s on our delicious bread buns as well as our wonderful meat, we have a fantastic baker who has been with us for the past 6 months and he has been amazing! On the morning of each event the baker is up at the crack of dawn making us the freshest buns ever and they are second to none. The evening was really good and the food was greatly appreciated a few guests mentioned that they had seen our website and were really impressed and couldn’t believe the pricing and thought there was a mistake as they thought hog roasting would be far more expensive. We left feeling very satisfied and we were so happy that people had seen our website too! As I am writing this piece I have just received a first order via the website very exciting! The first of many I do hope the booking is for a christening and that will be the first christening we have every done, things are really looking up for us!

 

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What a lovely change in the weather spring is here!

 

What a lovely change in the weather spring is here! Hog roast chef and griddlecouldn’t be happier lately the orders are coming in fast and furious and we haven’t stopped, this weekend in particular has been exceptionally busy starting with Good Friday Hog roast hire set out full of confidence for the day ahead we had been booked to cater for a youth club Easter party and asked to cater for approximately two hundred. When we arrived we were shown where we could set up our machines and had lots of space inside the club, we had been asked to make a selection of dishes and the first job was to get the meat on the go, Hog roast hire placed fifty chicken, and 50 duck onto the machine and with no aid what so ever they cooked nicely, we then got the jacket potatoes onto the machine two hundred in total, when the meat was cooked we shredded the duck and chicken and placed them into tortilla bread added heaps of salad and mayo and placed them onto the tables and offered them as a cold alternative and always go down well. The jackets were just about cooked and we got to work with the fillings Hog roast made chicken and bacon filling with a spicy sauce and offered another chicken and bacon along with a hot chilli sauce along with cheese and onion and tuna and mayo these are by far the most popular fillings we do. Hog roast hire then set about the task of the rest of the food as the guests arrived we flipped the hot plate on and got more meat on the go, burgers and sausage sizzling nicely as we chopped onions and mushrooms we soon had a queue and we started to serve immediately the children had a great appetite everything was gone at the end there was not even a wrap left! But that’s all good we love to see clean empty plates we had a super day with super company and we couldn’t have asked for the day to go any better the children were so chatty and made us laugh, well looking forward to the week ahead busy, busy, busy!

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We really thought we had seen the end of it.

We have been busy this weekend and we were not expecting snow! We really thought we had seen the end of it but it seems it is back with vengeance!  We got caught in the snow and luckily we didn’t have to travel far yesterday it was a birthday celebration for a lovely lady just a small gathering but still important and as usual we pulled out all the stops. Hog roast   were catering for four hundred at the weekend for an annual cricket club general meeting this is the first time we have been asked to do the catering and we are hoping that is won’t be the last! It is considered an honour in our community to be asked and we were so proud! Hog roast hire   are out to impress the members of the cricket club and we are sure we will with the array of food we are going to cook. The pig naturally will be the centrepiece and to be honest we could not imagine an event without him he really gets everyone chatting and is the entertainment of any party! To accompany the pork Hog roast    are making apple sauce, crackling and jacket potatoes with more than ten choices of filling so we are sure to please everyone’s pallet! We are also making wraps using freshly made tortilla and we are cooking chickens slicing up the meat and mixing it with fabulous sauces these are a great new addition we have added onto the menu and are proving so popular with our customers and since they have been added to the menu we are getting asked for them at each event! We are also cooking some lamb and slicing up the lamb and adding our unique mint sauce and new potatoes and we don’t stop there we are making a selection of salads with delicious dressings. Hog roast hire hope that the cricket club will be a regular event and this will be a most welcome addition to our portfolio business is really booming at the moment and hog roasting is proven to be popular yet again and we are not surprised!

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We haven’t stopped!

Hog roast   have been really busy this week we haven’t stopped! And did our biggest event in our seven -year history just the other day we were catering for one thousand and it went so well. We are extremely proud and we pulled out all the stops at Hog roast hire  and will be remembered fondly in years to come. We were catering for the Boys Brigade Annual event where boys from all over the country gather and special awards are handed out to mark outstanding achievements we were really honoured to be asked to cater and boy did we cook some food! Hog roast   cooked burgers and sausages and we popped them into our beautiful freshly baked buns, lashings of tomatoe sauce and mustard accompanied the sandwiches we also made baked potatoes served with tuna filling, baked bean filling and cheese and onion filling these were gone in literally minutes! Hog roast hire   made a lovely hot tomatoe soup too and the boys loved this too we had a fantastic time and we really excelled we had never catered for that many before and were used to being busy and catering for a few hundred but a thousand was a first for us and it has made us want more big orders! Next week we are off south for a birthday celebration and this customer is becoming a regular as we have now catered for the past five years for this ladies birthday that is when we know we are doing a good job when customers come back to us time and time again, we are more like friends and the guests are always the same we really look forward to her birthday now and are now starting to presume it will be forever we hope! We have now started to make the lady a cake free of charge of course, for being so loyal and we can guarantee we will come back with other orders as we normally do word of mouth and recommendations works wonders for people like us and we are eternally grateful to our loyal customers/friends…

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December Hog Roasts

The weather is turning very icy now but Chef and Griddle is gearing up for another busy weekend and we will not let a bit of ice get in the way of our hog roasts.

We had an event on today at a farmers market who would like to supplement their organic vegetables with our free range organic pigs. We will also be cooking up some of the market’s organic potatoes in our roasting tray, to show off how superb they are when roasted in the pork juices. A few of the stall owners ended up asking if we could cook some of their vegetables as well and we did, with the results being fantastic. In the end the customers practically had a roast pork dinner with spit roasted pig, crackling, stuffing, apple sauce, potatoes , carrots , onions and fresh floured rolls. The meal went down perfectly, we tasted some of the roast organic vegetables and we must say they were absolutely amazing and will definitely be using them again for events in the area.

The event we have this weekend is for a wedding in Penzance, the couple have opted for our Alfresco Wedding Menu, this is a fantastic option for couples on a budget as it is less reliant on service but makes up for it with the price and the food you receive. This menu consists of whole roast pork and whole roast lamb served with all the trimmings, the couple will also receive three freshly made salads. Having two meats in this way is great foe taste as well as presentation as you can see both meats turning around and roasting whole. As I have mentioned before in these blogs lamb is a great meat for a sit down meal, especially when it is cooked like this.

This month has been one of the best yet for Chef and Griddle and we can definitely see the success continuing on into December and from there into the new year if you would like a hog roast in December I would definitely urge you to book now as we are almost full to bursting for the coming month.

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Christmas Comes Early

We have had quite a busy week at Chef and Griddle this week with two party menus, a corporate event and another party tonight!The corporate event was a for a small haulage company in Wrexham who were celebrating an excellent financial year and treating the staff to a hog roast for lunch at their offices. The weather wasn’t fantastic but we were able to bring the hog roast indoors to the canteen to serve the hog. The menu was our corporate menu one which consists of a spit roasted pig, professionally presented crackling, freshly made stuffing and apple sauce served into a bread roll. The staff loved the hog roast and kept coming back for more pork of which there is always plenty.

One of the party menus was our menu two on which you get a choice of a number of meats such as lamb, beef, chicken, turkey or a BBQ menu. The hosts of the party chose chicken option which we served with piping hot stuffing and freshly made gravy. The menu two also comes with a vegetarian option so the client chose to have roasted aubergines with feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, caramelised onions and chilli, for a very colourful and flavoursome vegetarian alternative.

The second party menu was for an early Christmas dinner for a family as their eldest son is going travelling over the Christmas period. The clients had the winter warmer menu which is understandably becoming increasingly popular over the Christmas period. This menu has the choice of pig or turkey as the meat and seasonal vegetables as a side dish, they chose the turkey for the traditional festive meat and had freshly prepared mulled wine to go with it.  Spirits were high and everyone had a little bit too much mulled wine but that what  early Christmas is all about!

The event tonight is for a 40th birthday party and the weather is terrible, luckily we have our little gazebo to protect us and the hog I will update you on how it went tomorrow.

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Leading up to Party!

The summer sport is the topic on every persons lips at the moment and with all our heroes in play we are sure to be cheering them on throughout the occasion. Andy Murray into the Semi’s and ready to fight his way to the final itself.  And then we have the upcoming Olympic 2012 where the best of our British elite athletes with be competing with the worlds best, which will unite people from across the world in one massive celebration of sport.

Everybody loves a good time to lead up towards the events of the summer, and there is no exception this weekend where we will hosting an event in  Sandiacare, Nottingham for some lucrative characters. Our excellent professional chefs will be preparing  food that is mouth watering to look at never mind eat with accompanying vegetables and other sides.  After the main course of our delicious meat we will be serving a range of deserts with cream or ice-cream, which will be topped of the band that will be playing while the people will be laughing amongst each other with the glasses of wine flowing.

With the Hog Roast Caterer team to ensure that they will have a good time, nothing can go wrong. Plates will not be empty, bellies will not grumble, and nobody will have a smile that is upside down. So the upcoming weekend like all our weekends will not be one to forget, nor miss.

We really enjoy doing events for people so if you would like an amazing event for yourself,  friends and family to remember for life, then please feel free to browse the website or get in touch with us for a free quote and we will do the rest.

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We we do for you

Hog Roast Caterer have been making event extra special with our amazing and delicious hog roasts. We have catered for near enough everywhere in the UK and we are trying to cater for every country town and place in the British Isles, since that would be a massive and excellent achievement. We are very privileged to have catered for hundreds of different places all over the UK and have even catered for some celebrities which were truly stunning. Doing something you love for some celebrities was a massive achievement and experience for me and Hog Roast Caterer team. We can and have catered for a wide scale of people ranging from twenty people all the way up to two thousand people.

We can adapt to your requirements and work around you since you the customer are most important plus making your day worry free is what we do best due to the fact finding the right catering business for your event can be pretty stressful due to many facts like; finding the company that will do it on your day, finding the company that supplies food for everyone including children, finding the company who provide amazing service, finding a service who you can trust, many other aspects. But with the Hog Roast Caterer we are all of the above and more. We provide amazing service that you can trust, we arrive 6 hours before serving time since the pig takes 6 hours to roast to perfection, we can supply hog dogs for children if they do not want to have a hog roast or whichever meat you decide you wanted since we can roast; lamb, chicken, beef, turkey and all the different meats come with their own complements and sauces. If you are looking to go extravagant we can provide Canapés and Desserts. Have a look at our menus on our website. http://www.chefandgriddle.co.uk/menu.htm.

We can cater for any event you want whether it’s; birthdays, weddings, christenings, corporate events, company show days and many more wonderful events. We can adapt to your needs, you can enquire with us and we can see if it is possible.

We had a marvellous Diamond Jubilee and we have been extra busy ever since due to the fact the London Olympics and the Euros, customers and pubs are wanting a hog roast to enjoy while the football is on and to cheer England on to glory.

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May at the Hog Roast Caterer

May has been fantastic so far with the sun shining and a little bit of rain to keep all the crops going but so far so good as they say. Our chef love nothing better than to roast for a wonderful event, for glorious and friendly customers who love our hog roasts and other delight treats such as; delicious Canapés, scrumptious Desserts, tasty Starters and a Main with all its goodness and complements; crispy potatoes, freshly vegetables, crunchy crackling, succulent sauces and wonderful service.

We have been hog roasting for customers all over the UK for many years now and know how to get the best out of a piece of meat, mostly a hog. We have catered for a very wide range of people from; people who want a good ole fashioned hog roast, companies who want a hog roast for an event, businesses who having a fun day, birthday parties, for pubs and restaurants, celebrities and many more. Our professional culinary skills know no bounds, we only use the freshest of the fresh produce and ingredients since it gives the best results; taste, smell, visual effect.

We had a spectacular event a couple of days ago for a company who were celebrating being in business for 10 years. This is a remarkable achievement for any company and what better way to celebrate than with a hog roast. Since the company had been branching out since the start there was going to hundreds of them so when they read the menu their mouths watering in amazement; Spit Roasted Spring Lamb – Flame Roasted Whole to Perfection, Seasoned with Fresh Herbs Served with Mint Sauce and Mustard and Dill Sauce, Spit Roasted Sirloin of Angus Beef, Roasted to Perfection and Served to Your Liking with Horseradish Sauce, Spit Roasted Pig Roasted Whole to Perfection, Served with Professionally Presented Crackling, Along with Freshly Made Stuffing, Served Piping Hot and Delicious Bramley Apple Sauce, so serving they picked all of them to be served. Their faces were pure delight when they saw all the meats being roasted in front of them. Many of the employees had all 3 bits of meat in different buns to see what they all tasted like and they all said they same thing “an absolute delight” “the best thing they had ever tasted” the workers defiantly wanted one in the next 10 years and would do everything in their power to keep in business just for another hog roast.