Taste the Love

19/01/2025

Whats busy week in the kitchen.. many many happy bellies. It has felt like a SLOG getting back into the swing of things when it’s been cold out and the winter blues still lingers..but happy to be making lots of delicious food for you all. Here I am making 100 pots of roasted carrot salad with feta and caper dressing and quinoa salad with broccoli, pea, dill & avocado. Some easy grab and go for one of our large crews..!

13/01/2025

Roast butternut squash with pineapple salsa. Spicy roasted cherry tomatoes with lemon yoghurt & zingy lime & red onion guacamole.

08/01/2025

Green Bean Salad with Sushi Ginger and Lime Pickled Red Onion. White & Red Cabbage Salad with Mint, Mirin & Sesame. Spicy Peanut & Soy dressing and Spicy Prawns. Vibrant sides for Thai Red Curry Meatballs in Coconut Miso Broth. Perfect January eats.

06/01/2025

Starting as we mean to go.. two posts in one day! Cauliflower roasted with chipotle, topped with green tahini, crispy onions and pomegranate and dill, served with baked kale. Sexy vegetables.!

06/01/2025

Happy new year you lovely lot. It’s back to work for most of us after the festive break and it’s always a bit of a bump getting back to reality, but we can do it.! So much to be thankful for in 2024. Such a busy year for us here at Taste the Love, so many wonderful clients catered for, old and new. So many delicious menus created. always learning, always growing. Couldn’t do it without my amazing staff, so big thanks to you guys.! My new years resolution is to post more about the amazing dishes we are making and events we are catering (you would think we’re only cook once every three months based on our socials!) .. and new years resolutions are made for breaking hey! Blue skies ahead 💙 #2025

13/11/2024

Caprese salad in the making. Using up the ends of our sourdough from to make nduja croutons for extra umami. Served on the side of slow cooked beef ragu & roasted vegetable lasagne. Happy faces at for after party.

12/11/2024

Beautiful sunrise on the last day of a mega work stretch. Early starts mean enjoying the world waking up.. Happy clients with week at at and at

23/10/2024

Tinned peaches and cream is such a nostalgic flavour for me, total comfort food, so I thought I would create an eton mess inspired by them. This bowl of delicious was whipped double cream and coconut milk, tinned peaches, fresh blackberries and raspberry coulis layered up with crunchy meringue.. the coconut milk made the cream even more velvety and the fruit made it feel so fresh and light.. a hug in a dessert for sure.

25/09/2024

We Haven’t made burgers for our clients before, these were one of their hot options today.. cheese burger with caramelised onion and a good dollop of whole grain mustard mayo. We served them with dill & gherkin roast new potatoes.

Another of our options was a lemon, orange & zaatar chicken goujon wrap with harissa spiced chickpeas & roasted veg.. didn’t manage a picture of those but they were 🔥

Our client wanted healthy mezzo style food from around the world, so we served them all with zesty slaw, lime guacamole & nachos, houmous & crudités, stuffed jalapeños, falafel & herb dip, spicy prawn skewers & onion bhaji & mango chutney.. a total mish mash but felt like it represented Manchester’s diverse food scene!

Our client said it was the best burger they had ever had.

06/08/2024

Puy lentil, sunblushed tomato & herb salad. Made the most amazing raspberry vinegar & maple syrup dressing to soak into it all to give it a sweet tangy hit!

06/08/2024

If you have ever had our catering, then at some point you will have eaten our triple chocolate brownies. There are so popular ! If you have eaten them in the past couple of months, you may have noticed that they have only been double chocolate brownies.. missing those white chocolate bits? Well here is why.. I HAD to do the maths.. As I have seen time and time again hospitality titans closing around me, the numbers just don’t make sense.. a whopping 82% increase in cost in the past 22months! (Also, shout out to for trying to manage costs.. such a hard time!) If I charged the increase it cost me, I would have to be charging £4.55 a brownie (this isn’t even including VAT!) . I don’t understand how people are surviving.. are they surviving?!? I understand there are bigger factors at play on the world stage that contribute to the numbers. Failed cocoa crops because of drought (hello global warming!) hasn’t helped.. and LOOK butter actually came down (a box of butter DOUBLED in 2022!), electricity prices sky rocketing, wage increases, rent increases. You name it, it’s all gone up. All I can say is at least we are still here, creating amazing food for people (even if there is no white chocolate for the time being!) thanks to each and everyone one of you who supports Taste the Love, couldn’t do it without you! Keep supporting independent businesses. Costa, McDonald’s, Pret, Starbucks .. they don’t need your money.. please support local businesses.. we need each other more then ever!

04/08/2024

Brie, cranberry & caramelised onion on amazing focaccia from . Wowsers, what quality with their bread .. just 🔥🔥

01/08/2024

What a fabulous day celebrating & her amazing wife Kate getting hitched at . We don’t normally cater for weddings anymore, but I couldn’t say no to a canape reception in an amazing venue with the most amazing couple! I cried about 6 times.. You have to love love!! Congrats gals , you two rock!

19/07/2024

Dragon fruit looking 😍 such a delicious fruit, I like to think of it as kiwis cool cousin.

19/07/2024

16/07/2024

Corn bread with Cucumber Salsa. A delicious side for slow cooked Birra Beef. Served them with a dollop of creamed butter bean, corn & miso, heritage tomato salad & roasted paprika smoked sweet potato wedges.