While Hog Roast Birstall is famous for our perfectly-cooked hog and spit roasts, we can always provide much more variety and choice if needed for your special occasion. We can wow you and your guests with our handmade canapés, various scrumptious multiple courses, tasty hot and cold side dishes and a wide array of options for special diets – whatever you need, we will deliver.
When Justin contacted our team at Hog Roast Birstall a while back, concerning his upcoming birthday party, he knew that he wanted our amazing pigs in buns for the main course but he also needed a vegetarian dish for two of his thirty guests. We have spent years ensuring that all kinds of dietary needs are catered, and vegetarians can enjoy fresh, suitable, finger-licking options like stuffed mushrooms or peppers, mac and cheese or a freshly-baked quiche, but undoubtedly our most popular choice is our yummy veggie skewers, which feature halloumi cheese and no less than five vegetables grilled to perfection.
Saturday was the day of Justin’s 34th birthday, when our Hog Roast Birstall chef and catering assistants made their way to a local school field, which had been hired as the venue for the party. We had arrived a few hours before Justin and his guests, to set up our gazebo, serving table and hog roast machine outside under the warm sun, and to start preparing the meat. It takes hours to cook a hog roast so that it’s browned and crispy on the outside, full of crackling, and soft and tender on the inside, with meat that just melts in your mouth, so we got cracking by scoring the meat, and then adding water and plenty of salt to it, and then it was sizzling away.
By 3pm, the birthday boy and his guests of friends and family had all arrived. The hog was resting before carving and the skewers were also finishing off nicely, with chunks of courgette, red onion, peppers, tomatoes and mushrooms grilling along with the halloumi. Before long, the queues had begun and our chef was busy carving off the crackling and meat so that we could fill fresh bread rolls with bits of both, as well as our lovely apple sauce and stuffing.