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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
It isn’t every day your only daughter turns 16, so her parents Martin and Lorraine felt a party was a must, and since their daughter Juliet had been obsessed with a certain teenage wizard since the age of 8, the theme of the party more or less chose itself! But with 14 wannabe Wizards and […]
Today we are doing a hog roast in Coleshill at the Maxstoke Park golf club. It is a 25th anniversary for a golfing society and they have travelled down to Coleshill to celebrate. I like a game of golf myself and I have brought my clubs in the hope of a quick 9 holes once we […]
A very warm welcome back to the blog of the hog! We hope that you are all well and fighting fit. Talking of fighting fit, how is that hog roast machine of yours? If you are a caterer or a home hog roast enthusiast, you will be wanting to make sure that your shiny machine […]
I have just returned from a quite brilliant few days away from it all at a friend’s wedding. What a great tie it was, and the most amazing thing of all is that I helped to organise it! Okay so there may not be anything too startling about that but, too be honest, I struggle […]
It never ceases to amaze me how creative the British people are when it comes to combating the all too predictably bad weather that seems to be a permanent resident of these shores. Never more was this illustrated the other week by a friend of mine who was hoping to celebrate her 40th birthday at […]
