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Private Party Menu 5…………… An Extra Special Hog Roast Banquet

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Hi everybody hope you are all having a good Friday and looking forward to the weekend ahead!  I had a very successful catering event last night when I cooked up a formal hog roast feast at a business awards event and the client has already booked us again for another event!!

The next event they would like us to cater is not until December and they have asked us to cater their annual Christmas dinner and dance.  They have asked for private party menu five.  This is an extra special three course hog roast banquet and I cant wait to cook it up for them.  They will be enjoying a hog roast along with festive turkeys and many other mouth watering extras. 

We will begin by serving canapés as the guest arrive.  They will then seated and enjoy a festive feast of hog roast, stuffing and apple sauce.  Spit roasted turkeys with cranberry sauce along with seasonal vegetables and roasted potatoes.  Then we will serve a selection of  sweet desserts.  This menu is extra special and gives you a luxury hog roast experience.  It is perfect for special occasions and to impress at formal events

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Private Party Menu 4…… A More Formal Hog Roast Feast

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Good morning everybody, the working week seems to have flown by and I cant believe it is Thursday already, or as I like to call it Friday eve!  Hope you all have exciting plans for the weekend fingers crossed we get some nice weather.  I have a weekend full of catering events its very busy times at the moment for the Spitting Pig team.  The busy weekend begins this evening for me as I am catering a business award ceremony a few miles from the Spitting Pig office.  Tonight I am catering another amazing hog roast menu but a slightly more formal style.  The client has requested private party menu four which is a tasty hog roast meal with all the trimmings but served as a sit down dinner.  We will also be providing fine silverware and china for the dinners to enjoy their hog roast feast.  My team of waiting on staff will also be doing their usual first class service.  Take a look at the menu below to see what our private party menu four option includes:

Choose One

Spit Roasted Pig Served With Apple Sauce Stuffing & Crispy Crackling

Spit Roasted Spring Lamb Seasoned With Rosemary Served With Mint and a Mustard & Dill Sauce,

Whole Spit Roasted Turkey Served With Fresh Cranberries and Sage & Onion Stuffing

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

Spit Roasted Rib Of Beef Served With Horseradish Sauce, Yorkshire Puddings And Homemade Red Wine 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

Select either Salad or Vegetables

Salad (Choose Three)

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

Or

Seasonal Vegetables

Then Choose One Potato Option

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

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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Private Party Menu 3 Hog roast and extras

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Hello to all the Spitting Pig blog readers.  Hope you are having a good Wednesday and the working week is not dragging to much for you!  I am getting ready to go out and cater yet another event.  One very lucky customer and his 80 guests are about to be lucky enough to enjoy one of our amazing hog roast menus as they celebrate at an early retirement party.  The customer has requested a late afternoon serve for his garden party so I shall be setting off soon to arrive at his home in plenty of time so I can prepare and cook the hog roast and yummy extras before carving and serving.  I will be doing a very popular hog roast menu of ours.  Its the private party menu three option.  Take a look at what this offers and I guarantee it will make your mouth water: 

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.

Includes Serving Tables, Disposable Crockery And Napkins.

Food Served As A Buffet

This Menu Also Includes:

A Spitting Pig 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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Private Party Menu 2……… An Alternative Roast

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

Hello once again to all you Spitting Pig Blog readers out there.  Hope you are having a good day.  Is Tuesday the 24th of May and I have just confirmed yet another large catering event for next month.  We will be cooking up our private party menu two option for an outdoor event just down the road from us.  The customer organizing this event has requested something slightly different and has opted for a lamb roast rather than a hog roast.  While our outstanding hog roast is what we are most famous for and is requested the most often it is not all we can do.  Yes we may be called the spitting pig but we can roast any meat to perfection not just pigs!  So if a hog roast does not appeal to you then take a look our private party menu two option below and see what other alternatives are available to you.  Remember we can even do tasty treats for the non meat eaters to enjoy as well so everybody is kept happy :)

Chose one of the following:

Spit Roasted Spring Lamb Seasoned With Rosemary Served With Mint and a Mustard & Dill Sauce,

Whole Spit Roasted Turkey Served With Fresh Cranberries and Sage & Onion Stuffing

Spit Roasted Chicken Served With Stuffing and Homemade Onion Gravy

Spit Roasted Sirloin Of Beef Served With Horseradish Sauce And Homemade Red Wine Gravy.

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

Chicken Kebabs & Meaty Marinated Spare Ribs.

Plus Vegetarian alternative

All Served With Soft Floured Rolls

This Menu Also Includes:

A Spitting Pig chef to prepare and carve your chosen meat.

Lay serving table with tablecloth and napkins.

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

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Private Party Menu 1…..The Classic Hog Roast

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Hello Spitting Pig Blog readers, its Monday morning once again, I’m sure you will all agree that the weekend goes far too fast!  Hope you have all had a good weekend.  We certainly had a very busy one.  Myself and my catering team had lots of private parties to cater for on both Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Out of all of our hog roast menus the most popular menu this weekend seemed to be our simple, classic but outstanding private party menu one option….. know to our regular customers as Pig in a bun menu.  Take a look below and see what this fantastic menu includes:

Private Party Menu one

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

Served With Soft Floured Rolls

This Menu Also Includes:

A Spitting Pig chef to prepare and carve your Pig.

Lay serving table with tablecloth and napkins.

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

So you get the ultimate hog roast sandwich experience with zero hassle what more could you want at you party?  Perfect for relaxed and informal occasions.  No wonder so may of our customers request this hog roast menu! 

We have many more requests for this menu everyday and lots of confirmed bookings for the next few months

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Hog Roast Machine For the Stars

Friday, May 20th, 2011

Hog Roast Machine For the Stars

Hello everybody its Friday the 20th of may 2011 and yet another weekend is about to begin :)   Hope you all have exciting plans for the weekend, lets all keep our fingers crossed for some sunshine. 

The week has flown by so fast as we have been very busy both with catering requests and with our hog roast machine sales.

We also have lots of enquiries about people wishing to purchase their very own machine but this time of year the enquiries go sky high as more and more people want to have their very own machine for the Summer, and who can blame them it is certainly the best possible time to be a hog roaster.

Our hog roast machine purchase customers vary greatly.  A large percentage are other businesses owners for example restaurant or pub owners, hotel managers or butchers  who see the potential in hog roasting and how it can benefit their business.  Another percentage of our clients simply wish to have their own machine at their home for family parties and barbecues.  In the past we have also built machines for a number of celebrity chefs who now use their machines in their Michelin star restaurants. 

This weekend we had another star customer who has purchased three of our hog roasting machines.  The premiership footballer wants a machine at each of his holiday homes so he can cook a hog roast for his friends and family.  So if our machines are good enough for the stars they must be good!!

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Wedding food for thought

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

Good Morning Spitting Pig blog readers.  Hope you are all well and having a great Thursday so far.  Its a nice day today the sun has come back out and the rain has finally stopped hurrah!  Rumor has it there the UK is going to be treated to another heat wave this weekend.  I certainly hope so as I love hog roasting even more when I can enjoy the sunshine at the same time :)   So fingers crossed we get a scorcher this weekend people!!!

I have no catering events booked in for today, just a few machines hires o go out this evening.  So I am spending today working with customers.  I have three people to go and see today all who are confirmed bookings and all for wedding catering jobs.  The first one is next month, the second is a Christmas wedding in December and the third is not until Summer 2013 but there’s nothing wrong with being organized and planning ahead!!!

I like to meet up with customers to finalize the menus and see if there is anything else they need us to provide to make their big day even better.  Often as it is such a special occasion many people choose to adapt and change the wedding menus slightly this is always fine with me and I can adjust things to create the dream menu for the customer on all of my wedding catering jobs. 

So I better set of now to be on time or my first meeting with customer number one.  It looks like I have a full day of wedding catering planning ahead of me! :)

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Busy weekends for hog roast caterers

Wednesday, May 18th, 2011

As a caterer our weekends are now never available as we are always working so hard arranging and preparing to attend and cater our customer’s events, as well as calling new potential customers. There is so much to get done like putting our customer’s minds at rest, getting customer’s deposits and sending out invoices as well as liaising with our local farmers and butchers to get the best quality meats and produce from them. Not only do we have to do this but we also have to think about where the event is taking place and if we need anything else like shelter, or if the area is easily accessible.

 The distance in which we are traveling is also not to be forgotten as we need to be punctual so that our customers are served on time. Our machines have to be cleaned, and also any free time we have is left for us making our very own homemade sauces. There is so much to think about behind the scenes and then once this is sorted out we are left to concentrate on the finer things like making sure all our food is cooked thoroughly and to a high quality standard for our customers and their guests. We want your day/night to be a success and most of all for you to enjoy the experience, and everyone to have a smile on their face(that includes us too!!)

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Lean, mean hog roasting machines

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Hello Spitting Pig blog readers.  Its Tuesday the 17th of May 2011, hope you are all having a good day so far despite the grey and miserable weather.  The office is very busy today.  This week we seem to have had lots and lots of enquiries for both catering and for machine sales.

I am pleased to report that the hog roast machine side of the business is continuing to do exceedingly well, and as we enter the Summer months this will continue as lots and lots of local business and budding hog roast chefs use the Summer months as the perfect opportunity to purchase their first machine and begin to hold hog roast events.  Its also this time of year that repeat customers return to us to purchase an extra hog roast machine.  We have people coming back to us for a second, third or even tenth machine because our machines are not like any other hog roast machines.  They are safe, reliable, easy to use and outstanding quality. 

When on catering events we only use hog roast machines and machine accessories that have been designed and manufactured by ourselves because we no that by using competitors products we would not achieve the best possible hog roast for our catering clients. 

Speaking of our machines which are used for our catering events I need to give the three that we used yesterday a through clean.  After the big wedding we catered yesterday they are in need of a good clean so I better go and get that done before lunch.

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Weekday wedding

Monday, May 16th, 2011

Hello Spitting Pig blog readers.  Its Monday again boooo back to work for everybody and another five full working days until the next weekend.  Its not an average Monday for myself and other members of the spitting pig team today as we actually have a wedding catering job today.  Ninety per cent of our wedding catering jobs tend to be on a Saturday.  Very occasionally we will do a wedding catering job on a Friday or perhaps  a Sunday but week day weddings are quite rare.  The lucky couple exchanged their vows today because they wanted to marry exactly two years after they first met…..to the very day!  So the special date just happened to fall on a Monday. 

We cooked up a tremendous wedding breakfast for them this afternoon and we are having a little break before we begin preparations for the evening buffet.  It has been a lovely day and although the weather was not quite as sunny or dry as we hoped for it has still been a beautiful wedding.  I have really enjoyed today’s job as I love wedding catering work and its a refreshing change not to be in the office on a Monday afternoon.  I hope other couples follow suit and begin to enquire about week day weddings as I could quite happily cook up wedding feasts seven days a week fifty two weeks a year! Congratulations once again to the happy couple :)

I shall now go and begin preparations for the evening buffet.

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