Hog Roast for a Garden Wedding Reception

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 […]

Locally Sourced Pork Enjoyed By All At A Viking Themed Festival!

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 […]

Taste The Cracklin Catering for a Birdwatching Society!

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 […]

Another Happy Customer Using Our Machine Hire Service

Our Taste The Cracklin team have been enjoying the lovely summer weather with our customers, whether catering for events and parties both locally and further away, or when hiring out our own hog roast machines. We cater to both professional and domestic chefs with our machine rental service and we have a range of equipment to […]

Taste The Cracklin Catering For A Local Tennis Club!

Wimbledon may be the most highly regarded event in the tennis calendar, but for true tennis fans, the other grand slams are just as important and watched with equal enthusiasm. A local tennis club, who train together twice a week and compete in matches with other clubs on a fortnightly basis, decided to get together […]

Taste The Cracklin for a Gin Trail!

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 […]

Recommended Caterers For A Christening With 100 Guests!

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 […]

Taste The Cracklin For A Retirement Party

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. […]

Traditional Spring Fate

 A spring fate was taking place on the green in a little village. We at Taste The Cracklin were asked to come along to do a Hog Roast for the fate. We  were  looking  forward to doing this country fate because the setting was so beautiful. It was an olde worlde little village with a little […]