Caterpillar Catering

11/09/2025

11/09/2025

We were super excited to cater for the presenters, crew and volunteers of BBC Antiques Roadshow when it was hosted at Bradford’s Lister Park back in June as part of Bradford 2025.

That was a hectic weekend as we had a wedding for 100 on the Saturday evening too. Thanks to Mack, Kate and Sarah for running the show in Bradford whilst Paige, Lil and I catered the wedding.

Over the weekend at Lister Park, we fed a 50 strong crew on day one, increasing to 220 on day two. We served hot hearty meals, a huge selection of salads, and of course a pudding table piled with cakes bites and fruit platters.

Fiona Bruce (wanted to tag her but looks like she’s not a social media person - wise idea Fiona!) walked up and down the salad table, repeating “wow, wow, wow” as she went! I mean - that feels like genuine praise. If I wasn’t such a pro then I’d have filmed for her a sound bite 😂 She was lovely. As were all the presenters, crew and volunteers. Although tbh - we weren’t completely clued up on who the presenters were - we just accepted anyone in a brightly coloured outfit was someone important. Probably plenty of random people with impeccable fashion taste and dapper suits got a free meal off us 😂

We served some of the delicious and awesome branded cookies from Three Little Birds - they were all eaten. I was raging as I wanted one for the drive back home. Had to eat my own food instead 😩

When I got home on Sunday, I amazed myself by polishing my shoes and digging out some overdue paperwork. I didn’t want or need to do any of it - it was some kind Pavlovian response to the Antiques Roadshow theme tune that had ear-wormed its way round my head for the last 48 hours! Sorry team! 🙋🏻‍♀️ feel free to bring noise cancelling equipment next time you don’t want to hear me stuck on a one-line loop again! 🐛 🎵

09/09/2025

Toasted fig leaf ice cream. With stone fruits fried in pistachio butter. 😋

Yep - fig LEAF ice cream. Trust me on this one. At first I was like “nah, no way, fig LEAF?!”….but then I was “hmm ok let’s try”….and I finished with “wowee - that is awesome, who’d have thought?!” It’s kind of nutty with a coconut flavour, also a little earthy, but very yum. Helen was skeptical - wasn’t sure why I asked her to bring me some fig leaves. I didn’t save her any to try so she’ll just have to take my word for it!

One day I’d like to have a fig tree in my garden. I mean, we’ve got to get a garden yet, but it’s always good to have goals right?! Having a fig tree right outside your house is as opulent as it gets I reckon. One can dream.

26/08/2025

Happy National Dog Day!

Get your volume on to listen to Scout singing the song of his people because he has to wait for Mack before he’s allowed his tooth chew. Brock just sits there like the good boy he is.

Rescued from the streets of Thailand, now living their best lives in God’s Own Country. Only complaining when you don’t save them some of your toast, or when you’ve not smoothed the wrinkles out of their dog bed. 😂

26/08/2025

15/08/2025

Absolutely not jumping on the bandwagon. This was another client request so thought I’d make use of the viral hashtag.

I had some for tea the other night. Then some more for pudding, natch. There was so much alcohol in it that it whooshed up my nose akin to wasabi. Super retro dessert that is now doing the rounds again cos someone famous talked about it on TikTok that one time.

I have two tiramisu stories from days of yore: that time in the late 90s when Mum and Dad went on holiday and left me and my brothers at home. During one of many house parties, the freezer (containing lots of puddings destined for a wedding) was accidentally turned off and we had to rapidly eat a lot of tiramisu before it spoilt. Mum was fuming. Probs would’ve been more fuming if she knew what actually went on at those house parties 😂

Another memory was making trays upon trays of true Italian tiramisu whilst volunteering at a music festival in Milan in 1999. We made it with thin biscuits rather than sponge fingers, and it had about 6 delicious layers. We sold massive portions to drunk people who ate it whilst dancing.

14/08/2025

If you’re not all putting nasturtiums and left over veggies in your roast beef and hula hoop sandwiches then y’all need sort your life out.

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14/08/2025

*please don’t come at me*

Hare ragu, the fattest of fat pappardelle, roasted veggies from and a nasturtium cos they make everything so delicious.

Sustainably caught. First time cooking hare. I didn’t want to try it, but I did and it was delicious. And I immediately wanted to text my dad to tell him. He would’ve loved knowing I’d made this. And probs would’ve been jels.

03/07/2025

When you want to eat your tea, eat cake, and watch TV but you’ve told yourself you can’t until you’ve put something on social media and finished the VAT returns (had Dawn on my case allll week 🙄😩)

Pro tip: make your tea on a colourful plate and take a pic of it - ready made content! 😃 Follow me for more content tips 😂😂

Pro cake eating tip: pretend you’ve got someone coming for tea so no one questions what’s happening with that second piece of cake.

P.S. this isn’t my normal tea. This is me cramming in a load of veggies having eaten mostly toast for the last week.

15/05/2025

03/03/2025

Rainbow fruit platters and cake bites for half term arts and craft workshops last week. Hosted by Keighley Creative, The Word Up North and Kala Sangam Arts Centre