Welcome back to the Chef and Griddle blog, hopefully you are all inside your homes of your own free will this evening and not as a result of being snowed inside your house, which with the recent weather wouldn’t be completely out of the question.
True to form we have not cancelled any of our recent events due to the weather and we never will. We catered for a hog roast yesterday for a baby’s christening. We provide catering for a lot of hog roast christenings as the hog roast seems to translate well to this sort of occasion. Getting to the event was not an easy task; driving through the snow with our big van full of hog roasting equipment. To ensure we arrived on time we had set off for the event two hours earlier on this occasion. We still managed to arrive with plenty of time to set up our serving station and set the pig cooking. As well as the traditional spit roasted pig, the customer had asked us to dress and serve their desserts and provide staff to man their bar for the party. Providing staff to serve on your bar or on a bar we will supply comes at an additional cost however it is something we can absolutely do.
Whilst the pig was cooking we introduced ourselves to the family whose son was being christened. As the family had a lot of young nephews and nieces they had asked us to provide hot dogs, fried onions and sauces for the children as they though that some of them may not be daring enough to try the hog roast. In the end only a few children ended up eating the hot dogs as they managed to pluck up the courage to try the pork and seemed to absolutely love it, another few children converted to eating proper food. The dessert the customer had asked us to serve looked absolutely fantastic, it was home made key lime pie that we dressed with cream and then served to guests, in fact the customer gave us a spare pie to bring back and I will hopefully get chance to tuck into it tomorrow.