Catering Tips & Ideas
Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.
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Elder trees flower in Cornwall in May and June, lining the lanes and hedgerows with clusters of cream-white blossom that smell like the best version of summer. Pick them on a dry, sunny day and you have the base for a cordial that tastes nothing like the supermarket version. This is one of those recipes that makes people ask if you actually made it yourself.
In Cornwall, you put the jam on first. Then the clotted cream. That is not up for debate. This is the classic Cornish cream tea scone recipe, light, barely sweet, with a good rise and a slight crust on top. The clotted cream should be thick enough to stand a teaspoon in. The jam should be strawberry. The debate should end.
From urgent office lunches to film shoots and family gatherings, here is how to get premium Cornish sandwich platters delivered with just 24 hours notice. Last-minute catering happens. Meetings get scheduled late. Film crews suddenly need feeding. Guest numbers double overnight. When you are searching for next-day sandwich platter delivery in Cornwall, speed matters but not at the expense of quality. That is exactly where Salt Wind Catering comes in. We specialise in fresh, locally made...
Cornish saffron buns are one of the oldest baked goods in Britain, saffron was traded into Cornwall via the tin and copper trade routes centuries before it reached the rest of the country. These are soft, lightly spiced milk buns with a vivid yellow crumb, studded with currants and mixed peel. They are called revel buns in West Cornwall and are still made for feast days.
When the red weather warnings for Storm Goretti were issued, emergency plans across Cornwall were pushed from theory into a brutal reality. As a proud member of NCASS (The Nationwide Caterers Association), the UK's professional body for independent food businesses. Salt Wind Catering was officially deployed and paid on behalf of the National Grid to provide emergency welfare support . We were fully operational and on-site in Penryn within 3 hours of the call. However, over the four days...
Fresh Cornish crab, linguine, lemon, chilli and a knob of proper Cornish butter. This is one of those recipes that sounds fancy but takes under 20 minutes and tastes like you're eating at the harbour edge in St Ives. White crab meat only, the brown meat goes into a sauce you'll want to eat straight from the pan.
There's a moment at every Salt Wind Catering giant pan event that I live for. The burners roar to life. The oil shimmers. And then, that first sizzle as ingredients hit the pan. Suddenly, every head turns. Conversations pause. People start drifting over, drawn by the sound, the smell, and the sheer spectacle of watching dinner come together right in front of them. That's the magic of giant pan catering . It's not just food. It's theatre. But how do you actually pull off cooking fresh food for 100...
Cornwall's dramatic coastlines, wild moors, and ancient woodlands make it one of the UK's most desirable filming locations. From Poldark to House of the Dragon, the South West offers backdrops you cannot get anywhere else. But as any Location Manager knows, the very landscape that looks great on camera is a nightmare for logistics. Narrow single-track lanes, soft sandy beaches, and remote cliff-tops make standard catering trucks a liability. If your food truck is parked half a mile away on a...
Afternoon Tea Catering in Cornwall. Proper Cream Tea Country Cornwall wrote the book on cream teas, jam first, obviously. But a proper afternoon tea goes beyond scones and clotted cream. It's finger sandwiches with real fillings, homemade cakes and pastries, fresh fruit, and a spread that looks as good as it tastes. Whether it's a baby shower, a hen party, a milestone birthday, or a retirement celebration, afternoon tea catering brings a touch of class without the stuffiness. Salt Wind Catering...
BBQ Catering in Cornwall: Proper Charcoal, Proper Cuts, No Messing About There's a big difference between a BBQ and a good BBQ. Anyone can chuck some cheap sausages on a disposable grill from the petrol station. What we do is something else entirely, premium cuts of locally sourced meat cooked over proper charcoal, homemade sides and salads, and food that makes people come back for seconds and thirds. Salt Wind Catering BBQ is built for outdoor events across Cornwall. Garden parties,...
Baby Shower Catering. Beautiful Food Without the Fuss A baby shower should be about celebrating, not stressing over food. At Salt Wind Catering , we deliver beautifully presented baby shower food across Cornwall so you can focus on the mum-to-be and the party games. Afternoon Tea Style Our afternoon tea catering is perfect for baby showers, finger sandwiches, scones, cakes, and fruit platters that look as good as they taste. Add a Pimp Your Prosecco station for the guests who aren't...
Organising a children's party is chaotic enough without worrying about the food. Salt Wind Catering provides kids' party food across Cornwall that children actually eat, delivered fresh and ready to serve so you can focus on party bags, pass the parcel, and keeping twenty sugar-fuelled six-year-olds from climbing the walls. Food Kids Actually Eat Our children's party food collection is designed around what kids actually eat at parties. Mini pizzas made with real dough. Chicken goujons that...
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