To minimise cost and stress, Louise and Owen planned a simple civil ceremony at their local registry office, followed by a lowkey wedding reception for 40 people, which was taking place in a hired marquee in their back garden. They may have wanted to avoid all the pomp and circumstance, but that didn’t mean they […]
It was helmets, hammers and drinking horns aplenty last weekend when the Taste The Cracklin team found ourselves caught up in the middle of a Viking invasion! No, we hadn’t travelled 1000 years back in time- we were catering for an annual Viking festival! It wasn’t the first time we had been here, so we knew […]
The Taste The Cracklin team enjoyed a very pleasant and educational day out in the woods last week, when we were asked by a local birdwatching society to cater for their 40 members’ annual get together! The great thing about the way we cook, is that we can be at one with nature, whilst providing restaurant-quality […]
With most of the Nation, including her husband and two sons, constantly glued to the television watching the World Cup, Alison was getting fed up. If they weren’t watching it, then they were reading about it or talking about, and with still almost a fortnight to go, Alison was already at the end of her […]
The Taste The Cracklin team had a lovely day last weekend in the glorious sunshine catering for a tranquil lakeside wedding for 70 guests! The bride and groom, Clare and Phil, had always been massive hog roast fans, so this was their number one choice for their wedding reception. However, the hog roasts they sampled […]
When it comes to planning the catering for your upcoming event it can be a stressful task. There’s so many options and things that you need to take into consideration, sometimes you just want the weight lifting off your own shoulders and to let someone else take care of it. Well at Taste The Cracklin, […]
We’ve been involved in a few traditional ale trails over the years, but this was the first time Taste The Cracklin had been asked to cater for a gin trail! Following a similar concept, whereby drinkers amble between country pubs and stop for a tipple in each one on the way, the pubs in the local […]
Most people see their Sundays as the day of rest, but not us as it’s one of our busiest days and this Sunday was no different. We at Taste The Cracklin were up in the early hours prepping our pig for a lunch time serve at a christening. We have visited this venue a number of […]
It was the weekly auction market for farmers, but this week was going to be different. It was going to be Barry the auctioneer’s last market before he retired. The organisers of the weekly farmer’s auction wanted it to be a special occasion for Barry who had been the auctioneer for the last 48 years. […]
David and Lorraine are the man and wife team behind a local angling club, which offers its members the opportunity to improve their fresh water fishing techniques in a tranquil environment with experts on had to offer advice about the best methods and equipment. They had been trying to think of ways to revamp their […]
