We offer a wide array of choices for starters, side dishes, salads, desserts, and even entertainment and of course, catering. You can make sure that all of your attention is on your guests instead of the food and overall organization. So, what to do with all of this extra time? Organize a Halloween costume competition, or perhaps other fun Halloween activities. Why not put together a fun haunted house for the kids to enjoy while the adults focus on chatting and dancing? You will be surprised how much time it takes away from your guests and ensure the party is truly a blast when you are focusing on ensuring the food is cooked, served, and then picked up when everyone is finished.

This Halloween do something different and give yourself a break. Call us today to organize a Spit Roast to ensure that this spooky night will be one to remember.

Check out our Spit Roast, lamb and pork roasts, and all the wonderful packages we have for you. Happy Easter!

Big Roast has Launched Events Photo Session

 Roast welcomes you to its website and is pleased to present the new events photo session. When looking for a caterer for their party, people are considering not only the prices and the menu, but also how the planned party is going to look like. That is why Big Roast has uploaded various of picture albums on its web site, so everyone can take a look and the great parties that are being thrown. Since there is no other way to show the customers how luring the succulent meat’s aroma is, Big Roast decided to show their clients pictures prom the events. As people can see from the albums, our delicious meats can be served outdoors, in an open field, in the back yard of your house, on the street and even on a boat. You can take a closer look at the custom-made grills and there are a lot of photos on which you can see the desserts, the canapés and salads we also serve. You will see how Big Roast organizes the space and decorates the events. Big roast can make your party unforgettable by offering the most delicious spit roast, lamb roast and barbeque there is and if you still are not sure you can check all the photo albums of the hosted events on its website. Also, if you are already a current customer of Big Roast be sure to send us pictures and video of the events we have catered for you!

Pulled Pork Sandwich

Here at BigRoast.com we’ve had some ideas come in for new and delicious ways to enjoy pork on the spit and pulled pork seems to be a favourite. For pulled pork you use the butt cut and smoked slowly on a spit using real wood and basted continually with a vinegar mop.

The whole process takes about eight hours and half a case of beer. After 3/4 of the case is gone you start your pot of barbecue sauce simmering on the edge of the grill. You can use the pulled pork in sandwiches by using a fork to “pull” the meat of the pork shoulder, mix it up with the barbecue sauce, and place it on a bun.

However, if you don’t have access to a spit roast machine you can make it in your oven using this recipe.

Gretchen’s Pulled Pork
1 pork shoulder or butt, bone in or out
BBQ rub of your choice or just rub the meat with a mixture of coarse ground black pepper and brown sugar.
Let the meat marinate for eight hours or overnight.
Place the meat in a 250 degree oven for eight hours.
When ready to serve pull chunks of meat off and then “pull” the meat into shreds by pulling between two forks. Do not discard the fat. mix it in, this is not a low fat dish, use the fat and enjoy it. 
For a traditional serving method very lightly moisten the meat with sweetened vinegar
To warm before serving put the vinegared meat in a pan and cover tightly then heat at 250 degrees until heated.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

A homecooked Sunday Roast

Here at BigRoast.com we like to share our knowledge on roasts. We may be the leading professionals in hog and spit roasts, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love to cook delicious and relaxed roasts at home on a Sunday for our families and we know you do too so here are a few tips to get your Sunday roasts in tip top shape.

You can have a variety of roasts, there’s the ever popular lamb roast, but there’s also beef, chicken and pork, all of which can be just as mouth watering as the lamb roast.

If you go with the chicken roast, it’s a great choice as if you have any leftovers you can use them in risottos or make a chicken salad. A tip for chicken roasts is to  push a flavoured herb or spice butter under the skin of the chicken before cooking  as this helps the flavours to penetrate the meat and keeps the breast moist during cooking.

Pork roasts provide the yummy crackling and or a more unusual flavour combination, try rubbing the skin with freshly grated ginger.

Roast beef is one of the more simple dishes and for it to taste its best, it’s usually a good idea to keep the roast simple and use lots of gravy and roast vegetables. If you want to add some extra flavour to the gravy add pieces of onion or shallot to the roasting tin.

A tip for all roasts is to leave them to rest for a while before carving. As the meat relaxes, the juices pull back into the meat making it easier to carve and more tender and moist. Most joints need between 15-20 minutes resting time – leave in a warm place so it doesn’t go cold, but avoid covering if possible, especially poultry, as the steam that forms inside the foil will turn crisp skin soggy.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450

A spit roast will be an exciting way to entertain your guests as well as feed them. You can roast all sorts of meats, so find out which meat is the most popular amongst your guests, we’ve found a spit roast chicken to go down quite well, and cook that particular meat.

If you have vegetarians attending, no worries, simply roast a variety of vegetables such as peppers and aubergines and serve with delicious salad options and fresh bread.

You can hire a company to prepare, cook and serve the spit roast for you if you would rather spend your time entertaining your guests with your witty humour and sophisticated wine selection, but if you would prefer to get your hands dirty and make this a labour of love so to speak, you can always hire a spit roast machine and cook it yourself.

Prices for hire of a spit roast machine vary depending on whether you hire the machine and return it clean or unclean and of course whether you want the machine and the meat or just the machine. If you would like more information on spit roast machine hire from BigRoast.com please click here.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

Turkeys on the spit - a popular choice

This year promises to be bigger and better than 2009 – there’s so much to look forward to, new designs for cars, clothes and appliances as well as new never before seen holiday destinations!

But what’s surprising is that spit roasts are fastly becoming the catering option of choice for many corporate and sporting events for 2010. It shouldn’t really be surprising in actual fact as spit roasts are the perfect way to feed a large amount of hungry guests in a creative and different way.

A popular way to serve village people back in the day, it seems the humble spit roast has made a massive comeback as they are becoming hugely popular in the UK at the moment and will continue to be over the next few years no doubt.  They are popping up all over the place and can be seen at most of the summer music festivals as well as family days in the park.

The spit roast can cater for events between 10 to 100 people and as there are smaller cuts of meat cooking simultaneously the serving time is less than what it would take for a hog roast.

Big Roast is able to spit roast a variety of meats including lamb, chicken, turkey and goose and have even been asked to cook cuts of beef for customers. Please feel free to let us know what cut of meat you would prefer.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.

2010 will be a big year for us here at BigRoast.com as we will be looking towards providing new and improved products, side dishes and salads as well as work on continuing the high class quality of our current meat selection.

Although we’ve had hundreds of happy customers providing us with wonderful feedback on our hog roasts, lamb roasts and spit roast varieties, we always strive for the best so we will be continuing to aim for the stars to provide you with the best quality meats. 

As we’re always on the lookout for new and interesting ideas, if you have any suggestions of what you’d like to see us provide in the way of meat, salads or side dishes please feel free to drop us a line at contact@bigroast.com all comments welcome!

BigRoast.com would like to wish all of its customers and suppliers a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

Big Roast is London’s leading hog roast and lamb roast service. For more information either email contact@bigroast.com or call 0845 500 5450.