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The Salt Wind Catering Blog — Page 7

Recipes, event ideas, and catering guides from our kitchen in Redruth.

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Giant Pan Catering Cornwall | Live Paella, Tagine & Street Food

Giant Pan Catering — Dinner and a Show There's nothing like watching your meal being cooked live in a massive pan right in front of you. The sizzle, the smell, the theatre of it — giant pan catering turns food into an event. At Salt Wind Catering , we cook fresh paella, tagine, noodle dishes, and more in oversized pans on-site at your venue. What We Cook Spanish paella loaded with seafood and saffron rice. Moroccan tagine with slow-cooked lamb and apricots. Asian-style noodle stir-fry cooked...

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25 Mar 20253 min read

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Festival & Outdoor Event Catering Cornwall | BBQs, Hog Roasts & Street Food

Festival & Outdoor Catering That Can Handle a Crowd Cornwall runs on outdoor events — village fetes, music festivals, food fairs, county shows, beach parties, and everything in between. When you need to feed hundreds of people outdoors, you need a caterer who can handle the scale, the weather, and the logistics. Salt Wind Catering has been doing exactly that from our base in Redruth. What We Bring to Outdoor Events Our BBQ catering and hog roast catering are built for the outdoors —...

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24 Mar 20253 min read

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Anniversary Party Catering Cornwall | Silver, Gold & Diamond Celebrations

Whether it's a silver wedding, a golden anniversary, or a diamond celebration, the food should match the milestone. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide anniversary party catering across Cornwall that's elegant, generous, and completely stress-free — from intimate gatherings of 20 to full celebrations of 150 or more. Planning Food for an Anniversary Anniversary parties tend to span a wide age range — grandchildren through to elderly friends. The food needs to suit everyone without feeling like a...

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23 Mar 20252 min read

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School & Charity Event Catering Cornwall | Fetes, Fundraisers & Fairs

Schools and charities in Cornwall run events year-round — summer fetes, fundraising dinners, sports days, award ceremonies, open days, volunteer appreciation lunches, and end-of-term celebrations. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide professional catering for schools, charities, and community organisations at prices that respect tight budgets. School Event Catering School events come in all shapes and sizes. Summer fetes need food that can be served outdoors to hundreds of visitors. Award...

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18 Mar 20252 min read

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Cream Tea Delivery Cornwall | Scones, Clotted Cream & Jam Delivered

Cream Tea Delivery — Fresh Scones, Clotted Cream & Jam, Delivered Across Cornwall There are few things more Cornish than a cream tea. Fresh scones still warm from the oven, a generous pot of proper Cornish clotted cream from a local dairy, and strawberry jam — cream first, obviously. Salt Wind Catering delivers cream tea platters across Cornwall for everything from baby showers to retirement parties , office treats to hen weekends , and holiday cottage welcomes . What's Included Every cream...

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12 Mar 20253 min read

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Next Day Buffet Delivery Cornwall | Order Today, Eat Tomorrow | Salt Wind Catering

Next Day Buffet Delivery — Sorted by Tomorrow Sometimes catering doesn't come with a fortnight's notice. A meeting lands in the diary. A birthday creeps up. A bereavement happens and a family needs to feed fifty people by tomorrow afternoon. That's where Salt Wind Catering comes in. We offer next day buffet delivery across Cornwall — order before 2pm and your food will be freshly made and ready the following day. Everything is freshly prepared in our Redruth kitchen. No frozen platters....

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19 Feb 20252 min read

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Wedding Catering Cornwall | Buffets, Hog Roasts

Planning a wedding in Cornwall means you've already nailed the setting. Now you need food that lives up to it. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide everything from elegant sharing spreads to hearty hog roasts for weddings across Cornwall and Devon. Based in Redruth, we know this county inside out — and we know what works at a Cornish wedding. Wedding Buffet Options That Actually Work Our event and party catering collection is built for weddings of every style. For a relaxed wedding breakfast,...

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6 Feb 20254 min read

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Catering for 50, 100 or 200 Guests in Cornwall | What You Need to Know

Catering for 50, 100 or 200 Guests — What Works at Each Scale The catering that works for 30 people doesn't necessarily work for 150. The logistics change, the food choices shift, and the way you serve it matters more the bigger you go. Here's how we approach it at Salt Wind Catering . Up to 50 Guests Delivered buffets are perfect at this size. Our sandwich platters , savoury platters , and hot buffet platters arrive ready to set out. No staff needed, no equipment, no fuss. Add a sharing...

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25 Jan 20252 min read

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Buffet Catering in Cornwall | Event Buffets Done Properly | Salt Wind Catering

Buffet Catering in Cornwall — No Packet Food, No Shortcuts A buffet should be the highlight of your event, not an afterthought. We've all been to parties where the food is a sad spread of supermarket platters still in their plastic trays — sweaty cheese, limp sandwiches, and a bowl of crisps someone tipped out at the last minute. That's not catering. That's giving up. At Salt Wind Catering, everything is freshly prepared in our kitchen at 37 Fore Street, Redruth. Proper ingredients, locally...

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10 Jan 20253 min read

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Christening Catering Cornwall | Baptism Buffets Delivered

A christening is a family occasion, and the food should feel like that — warm, welcoming, and suitable for everyone from great-grandparents to toddlers. At Salt Wind Catering, we provide christening and baptism buffets across Cornwall that are elegant, plentiful, and completely fuss-free. Light & Elegant Options For a church hall or garden reception after the service, our sandwich platters paired with fruit platters and sweet platters create a beautiful afternoon spread. Our afternoon tea...

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7 Jan 20252 min read

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Christmas Party Catering Cornwall | Festive Buffets & Hog Roasts

Christmas Catering — Festive Food Without the Stress December hits and suddenly everyone needs feeding. The office Christmas party. The family get-together. The work lunch that someone forgot to organise until the second week of December. Salt Wind Catering takes the food off your plate — literally. We provide Christmas catering across Cornwall for everything from intimate dinners to 200-guest corporate events. Festive Buffets & Hot Fork Lunches Our Christmas hot fork lunch is the...

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13 Dec 20242 min read

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Sharing Platters Cornwall | Stunning Sharing Boards Delivered

Sharing Platters — The Centrepiece Your Table Needs There's a reason sharing platters have taken over. People photograph them, gather around them, and talk about them for weeks after. A good sharing platter isn't just food — it's the first thing guests see when they walk in, and it sets the tone for the entire event. At Salt Wind Catering , our sharing platters are built by hand in our Redruth kitchen using quality cured meats, artisan cheeses, fresh fruit, nuts, olives, chutneys, and proper...

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10 Dec 20242 min read

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