Our Story
Growing up I always loved food. I was lucky enough to have Polish, English and Scottish heritage. This meant I was fortunate enough to experience a lot of different types of food, flavours and textures.
Our family is so close, all our gatherings are around food. We have so much great homecooked food, followed by desserts, everyone yapping away, telling stories, arguing over who gets the last roastie. Family time wasn't just a B/day or Xmas it was an event for us all to be together, to indulge in great flavours and fill our bellies with fantastic food, love and laughter.
My passion started at a young age. I used to stay with my wee beautiful Nana, she was the best cook! She just managed to get every ounce of flavour you can out of a simple ingredient. I would be a young kid standing on a chair in her kitchen, she would let me chop the veg, place it in the pan and stir the soup. Tasting the soup was great but the best thrill was seeing someone else enjoy it, something I had just made. Well that was a feeling I would continue to love and seek throughout my adulthood.
The relish idea started while having many BBQ's with my family. I could no longer put the supermarket cheap relish on my burgers, it just tasted like watered down sugar. Everyone knows ketchup is for kids and brown sauce is for bacon. I needed an adult sauce, something that would compliment the butcher quality fresh meat, something with some spice but not too much, something sweet, something salty, something sour, a goldilocks of sauces you may say, something just right!
When I was messing around about 40 times perfecting my relish, I had no idea that many of my family and friends had grown to love it as much as I did. Soon it was my friends asking me to bring it on our many camping trips, soon after that it was the same friends asking for jars. I decided to follow my passion and open a small food van in my local town with my homemade relish as a staple part of every morning roll and burger, if the customer so desired to have it.
It became apparent after a few days trade that people enjoyed the fresh taste of the relish with their roll. I was being asked daily to sell jars of the relish so decided to go for it. After 6 months, many different label types, many different jars, a few sold out markets and a lot of hard work, we know have 'Relish It' relish in it's first shop with many others interested. The food van has been doing really well and is nominated for 'Street Food Vendor of the Year 2019'. We made the final 4, a huge achievement for our little business which is family run.
We have been invited do weddings, birthday parties, galas, stalls for relish, talks at high schools and local fun fairs. Our van is open Mon - Fri 8am-2pm in Kirkcaldy and open for events at weekends.
We are dedicated to using the most fantastic and fresh local produce, from butchers meat, fresh vegetables and even the bakers morning rolls for our food van.
Our family is so close, all our gatherings are around food. We have so much great homecooked food, followed by desserts, everyone yapping away, telling stories, arguing over who gets the last roastie. Family time wasn't just a B/day or Xmas it was an event for us all to be together, to indulge in great flavours and fill our bellies with fantastic food, love and laughter.
My passion started at a young age. I used to stay with my wee beautiful Nana, she was the best cook! She just managed to get every ounce of flavour you can out of a simple ingredient. I would be a young kid standing on a chair in her kitchen, she would let me chop the veg, place it in the pan and stir the soup. Tasting the soup was great but the best thrill was seeing someone else enjoy it, something I had just made. Well that was a feeling I would continue to love and seek throughout my adulthood.
The relish idea started while having many BBQ's with my family. I could no longer put the supermarket cheap relish on my burgers, it just tasted like watered down sugar. Everyone knows ketchup is for kids and brown sauce is for bacon. I needed an adult sauce, something that would compliment the butcher quality fresh meat, something with some spice but not too much, something sweet, something salty, something sour, a goldilocks of sauces you may say, something just right!
When I was messing around about 40 times perfecting my relish, I had no idea that many of my family and friends had grown to love it as much as I did. Soon it was my friends asking me to bring it on our many camping trips, soon after that it was the same friends asking for jars. I decided to follow my passion and open a small food van in my local town with my homemade relish as a staple part of every morning roll and burger, if the customer so desired to have it.
It became apparent after a few days trade that people enjoyed the fresh taste of the relish with their roll. I was being asked daily to sell jars of the relish so decided to go for it. After 6 months, many different label types, many different jars, a few sold out markets and a lot of hard work, we know have 'Relish It' relish in it's first shop with many others interested. The food van has been doing really well and is nominated for 'Street Food Vendor of the Year 2019'. We made the final 4, a huge achievement for our little business which is family run.
We have been invited do weddings, birthday parties, galas, stalls for relish, talks at high schools and local fun fairs. Our van is open Mon - Fri 8am-2pm in Kirkcaldy and open for events at weekends.
We are dedicated to using the most fantastic and fresh local produce, from butchers meat, fresh vegetables and even the bakers morning rolls for our food van.
Our Mission and Vision
To make our fantastic relish a staple part of every UK BBQ, camping trip and food event.