Jobs were aplenty on the weekend in Yarwell, starting with a party on Friday and ending with a cider festival on Sunday it was anything but a quiet weekend for Spitting Pig.
Friday I was ecstatic because I dodged a bullet and got called in late for a party job for 100 people. Why would I want to be called in late to work on a Friday night? Because my mother in law has been staying the week and it’s given me chance to escape… briefly!
Taking refuge in my hog roast Yarwell job I pulled out all the stops to make the party menu 1 for birthday girl Louise and her 100 guests the best roast pig of all time. I can’t say whether I made the best hog roast in the history of history, but I must have come close by gauging the party guest’s reactions after biting down on their succulent pork with stuffing and apple sauce and rolls.
Unfortunately I couldn’t hide out there for too long as it was somewhat of a “hit and run” hog roast. The hog roast was cooked before arriving on the orders of the party organiser and so I was at the venue, had heated the Yarwell pig, carved, served and gone in just over an hour.
Not to worry, as by the time I was home I was straight to bed and the next morning I was out the door on my way to another Spitting Pig job, and on this occasion it an outdoor cider festival who’d called in a hog roast Yarwell style to make their festival all the more awesome. The weather wasn’t the best for an outdoor festival but we made the best of the bad weather and brought the heat with our 90kg roast pig, big enough to feed 300 people and that’s exactly how many were at the festival.
I was at the festival a few hours before it started. In the morning I set up the machine and on went the hog roast machine, after many hours it was mid afternoon and the agreed serving time was coming up, so I equipped myself with my hog roast carving knife and began to prepare the meat for the rolls. It wasn’t long after that the queues began and I was away, putting spit roast pork with crackling, apple sauce and stuffing on fresh crusty bread rolls for guest after guest, after guest, and so on. Until over 2 hours had passed and I’d served many hundreds of roast pig rolls.
The hog roast almost stole the show as cider lovers from all over the country ignored the drinks and focused solely on the Spitting Pig Yarwell roast.
This week I will cater a Party on Friday and Saturday and a wedding on Sunday.