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May
29

Making you party catering fun

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Why has partying at home become so popular?

Everybody love’s a good party at home,it’s so much cheaper to do,send out the invites and just wait for your friends to acknowledge,

Then it’s time to consider your budget and plan your menu,before you pop down the supermarket or cash & carry, and buy your drinks & food,it sounds so easy,but what would your guests like to eat,what do you offer the vegetarians,and who has allergies such as gluten free or nuts,all these areas to consider,before you go out shopping,and how much time will you spend organising your party,along with the stress? I guess if you have lots of time to plan and call all your guests,you may be fine to get your party moving.

By working with a professional team of event caterers,we evaluate your needs and requirements for your party,suggesting menu ideas and themes,the peace of mind and assurance of your party catering will seem so organised,and allow you to sit back and enjoy your party.

So why not sit back and really enjoy your partying at home,along with your friends all talking about it for years to come.

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May
27

You can’t beat a Sunday brunch

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Let’s make Sunday Brunch,the new Sunday Lunch

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You can’t beat a lovely Sunday brunch,after a late night at friends,or your wedding party,it’s such a brilliant way to get friends around for some social fun,or your family for some mid morning brunch,the big advantage is a nice lie in for everyone,and then no need to worry about the usual sunday roast we all love,but hate to cook,and battle all the cleaning afterwards.

As families we now live further apart,and many need to travel to be with there family,a mid morning classic breakfast combined with a selection of continental meats,fruits and specialty breads,it’s a real winner with everyone,arrive mid morning,and leave mid afternoon, after some fantastic family time with your family & friends.

Over the past few years, Sunday lunch has changed,with many hotels and restaurants only worried about clearing up in time for Sunday lunch after breakfast,we have enjoyed sharing our experience of classic catering,with a real hearty traditional cooked breakfast by our personal chefs,combined with our fantastically displayed fresh fruit platters and chilled meats,cheese,your guests will certainly stand back and say wow as they arrive.

We believe in offering fresh fruit juices with tea and coffee, with a hot hearty breakfast and continental selection,this will soon be the new Sunday lunch,especially if the sun keeps shining down on us.

At the Crazy Catering company we offer our professional personal chef services,we can make Sunday brunch such a memorable occasion,without the hassle and dishes,just the memories of really great food and real showcase for family and friends.

Let’s make Sunday brunch the new Sunday lunch,but I’m sure we could still include the Yorkshire puddings if required,to make your menu fun

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Dec
16

Why do we eat Christmas pudding?

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They were introduced as a family tradition going back to Queen Victorian, by Prince Albert who was Queen Victoria’s husband. The Christmas pudding certainly looked and tasted just as they do today.

However going back to Victorian times they were made at home, not purchased from the supermarkets or buying ready to go mixes as we do today, with all the ingredients being chopped and well mixed by hand, no mixers or blenders either, With this modern and convenience world we live in, even though they can be made months in advance, but the one tradition we all love is sprinkling our Christmas pudding with our favoured or dads brandy and lighting the pudding causing amazing flames over the pudding .

Christmas puddings that we enjoy these days are nothing like the first Christmas pudding recipes which date back to beyond the Middle Ages. They were well known as mince pie, which contained some great ingredients such as chopped, pheasant, rabbit, poultry and partridge. Then sometime later the more well-known ingredients were added such as apples, raisins, Sugar and the lovely candied fruits like orange and lemons we all love…. were added to the mixture.

Going back to the 14th century the traditional pudding looked more like a type of porridge which was made using local mutton, beef, currants, prunes, raisins and homemade wines and mixed spices. Traditionally this was eaten before the big celebrations. In 1595 it is believed that the recipe changed once again as spirits become more loved and added, combined with dried fruit, eggs and breadcrumbs. This is how it became Plum pudding.

King George is known to of announced in 1717 the pudding should only be eaten at Christmas, and thankfully by this time the Christmas pudding didn’t include any meat or game….

So as we all enjoy our Christmas pudding this year, we can all think about the traditional Christmas puddings life, and how it has changed over the years, where will you be buying your pudding this year?

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Dec
06

Are we now living in a world of food adventure?

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Great food is becoming really exciting and fun,especially with our local producers harvesting and delivering to the many farm shops opening up along our road sides or forgotten farms,and dare we say it,the much loved supermarkets have taken us all on the food journey of adventure.

As we all travel a lot further on our holidays to countries such as the Caribbean,Australia and New Zealand….along with some fantastic European destinations,our TV chefs and restaurants are now getting excited using local produce combined with amazing imported meats and seafood,some amazing fish such as Seabass which is now farmed like Salmon,but can be caught across the British coastline throughout the year,wild Seabass is an amazing fish to eat and cook with,and offers a lot larger fillets or supremes for chefs to create more dishes.

Over the years,we have become more aware of eating game in the winter months,and buying locally caught Pheasants and Deer, from our local farms.

Chefs just love great produce to cook with,and I love clients just telling me what they like,which then allows us to create an experience,cooking a well balanced meal in there home which they will always remember with our personal chefs

Creating an experience with fantastic fresh produce is so exciting,just look at the way food is loved in France,and for many years there chefs have always shared there passion and got excited,and hopefully as we approach a new year,the British menu will continue changing with some amazing produce hitting our coastline and farms,let’s enjoy and love our food more,and if you need someone to take away the hassles,and share the passion with you, let our personal chefs get excited with you.

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Dec
05

Are we bothered how healthy our food is?

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As we’re now living in a world of nutritional information with everything we eat,and all the food we buy in the supermarkets,are we really bothered how healthy our food is,when we eat out,or at events?

In a recent survey 46% of people described their knowledge of nutrition and health as very good or good, with over 70% of correspondents thinking that woman are more knowledgable than men,when it comes to understanding the nutritional content.

1 in 5 questioned thought that fish & chips were healthy,with over 70% of people saying spaghetti bolognaise and homemade burgers were healthy,and 20% of people thinking pizzas were “fairly healthy”.

One really interesting finding was,83% of people believed that a meal containing meat,potatoes,and a couple of vegetables was a fairly healthy option when eating out.

Do we really need to go down this route in event catering? Would you want your guests to have the benefit of healthy choices and nutritional information,and would this be more important for company or corporate lunches? The numbers show us so far,the public don’t understand enough about what there eating.

At the crazy catering company,were proud to buy local produce and make all our food fresh, cooked by chefs at the venus,so at least our clients and guests can see what there eating,and we offer menus for all dietary requirements,which is essential these days.

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Nov
07

Its Cold Out There Today, Time For Some Hearty Stew…..ideas for dinner no1

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Hungarian Beef Goulash (Serves 4)

675g Diced Rump Steak
3 Onions
3tsp Chilli Olive Oil
1 Green Pepper
4 Large Potatoes
2 Cloves Garlic
2tsp Tomato Paste
2tsp Flour
400gm Chopped Tomatoes
250ml Beef Stock
1Fresh Bay Leaf
1tsp Paprika
Salt & Pepper to Season
200ml Sour Cream
1 Bunch Coriander

1. Heat your deep pan with chilli olive oil and add meat to hot oil and fry until meat is golden brown
2. Add Chopped onions, diced peppers, chopped garlic until soft and add tomato puree and flour
stirring occasionally to ensure it doesn’t stick to pan
3. Add beef stock. stir in well combining flours and tomato paste to thicken sauce
4. Add Diced Chopped Potatoes, bay leaf
5. Simmer on stove low heat for 2 ½ hours or add to casserole dish and bake for 2 hours on 160c
6. Check meat and season, add tomato paste to thicken further if required
7. Finish with chopped coriander and spooned sour cream on top of casserole

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Nov
04

Food For Thought This Christmas

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Over 40% of people would pay more to eat at places that commit to cutting down and controlling food waste, along with the older generation being prepared to accept smaller portions, and men & woman happy to leave things of their order they done like but pay the same price…….glad I always refuse the egg on my gammon, would hate to see it wasted..

Over 12,000 tonnes of food is left on consumers plates every year….what a waste, certainly from my experience, there seems to be very few events throughout the year we have any wastage, it must be the fact our clients love our food…..

So just remember and think about those poor sprouts this christmas

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Aug
24

The love of real food with a hog roast

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As you go along to your friends party or company event, the question playing on your mind must always be, if were honest, what are we going to eat and how much of it will there be?

As for many years, we have always expected to go along and enjoy the standard party buffet of sandwiches and pastry, with deep-fried platters, because that’s what caterers do, and that’s what everyone can afford.. Isn’t it?

Welcome to the day of fresh and attractive quality catering, amazing whole spit roasted pigs slowly cooked for 6 hours, offering a fantastic theater of food, as guests arrive, with a qualified chef standing there to present and serve the food looking amazing.

The catering industry is becoming overtaken by part time hog roast companies trying to achieve excellence on the cheap, almost like a man with a van; it’s a man with an oven scenario out there.

Offering a professional hog roast, cooked on site by a trained and fully insured team, does cost money, but what a great start, then the presentation and delivery to your guests is always remembered for many years, along with quality and consistency of the catering.

An average hog roast will feed over 150 people pending on the size you have paid for,and offers a great way to feed so many friends and guests at any event; these can also be combined with a whole lamb or goat roast, how amazing these both look as they turn on the spit roast slowly, just imagine the theatre as your 2 ovens on full view for your guest to stand there, and get that wow factor….

Such fantastic food, has become such an amazing success over the last 10 years, bearing in mind we have loved traditional hog roasts for thousands of years, so lets all say farewell to the classic buffet platter and hello too hog & lamb roast at the next party or company event.

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Aug
14

Wedding Bliss, is there a value?

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What a fantastic wedding day for Dianne & Neil at Grappenhall, Warrington yesterday, with the sun shining as they got married and then arriving back to all there family friends and The Crazy Catering Company providing all there catering for the day.

As the guests arrived the chicken breasts were slowly cooking in a lovely Merlot red wine with shallots and mushrooms with fresh garlic, the aroma and theatre of the big pans cooking the main course was really amazing and attractive all the guests to watch there food being cooked, wedding catering cant get much more fun and theatre than this, along with there potatoes and fresh vegetables ready for service being placed hot into our silver serving dishes, fresh hot food at weddings………

Whilst all the food was almost ready for service, we had a 55kg whole pig slowly hog roasting on a spit roast for the evening, another touch of theatre for the wedding guests, can wedding catering get more interactive and fresh for the guests, as for much mass produced wedding catering at other venues and caterers offer, we love catering on site so our guests can see the food being cooked, and communicate with my team, I guess that’s what makes us different as well.

As the guests were busy meeting up in the bar area for drinks, my team were slowly producing some amazing fresh Eton Mess for dessert with fresh strawberries, blackberries, raspberries mixed well with meringue and freshly whipped cream, what a real wow as we presented them on the buffet later to the guests.

A sense of pride and satisfaction on such a special day to get so many compliments with regards to our quality and service from the guests, we had a great team that cleared all the tables of crockery and cutlery before the speeches so the wedding could get in full swing, and we could then set up for the night hog roast & salads buffet.

Wedding Bliss for Mr & Mrs Gatley as they loved there day and were getting excited for the hog roast as few hours later, catering done well is the only answer to wedding bliss, and you cant but a price on that can you…

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Aug
13

What a fantastic weekend ahead again..

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What makes perfect weekend,a weekend of weddings,especially when your catering for your best childhood and school friends wedding, with a sit down meal of marinated chicken breast in red wine sauce, finished off with eton mess,and hog roast in the evening for all the late night wedding party guests.

Complimented with a complete event party package for a 21st birthday barbecue,with marquee and bar service to keep my guys busy,combined with a fantastic Greek themed barbecue party menu in Chester,and our weekly river cruise on the River for our client…..whilst one my personal chefs are busy preparing a 3 course sit down dinner party, for 8 ladies at there home on a hen party with there own personal butler…..I’m doing the wedding before anyone asks…

As for Sunday,I’ll be at Warrington Town catering for the youth team whilst we have 2 teams out catering for a christening and birthday party with a hog roast and chefs carvery….

Another mixture of great ingredients making us the north west number 1 event caterer for every occasion,the complete event catering supplier www.thecrazyhog.co.uk

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