Murder Mystery Dinner!!!!

          This last week we did our biggest fundraiser yet. A murder mystery dinner. The preperations for this dinner were crazy. we had to buy a a story line and get some of taechers to donate thier time for our actors. The theme was a murder on maui. We started to sell tickets about two weeks before the dinner, and at first no one was buying. we were seriously worried that the event could be a flop. We also ordered decorations two weeks before the dinner, and payed express shipping so there would be here about 4 days later. Unfortunately the decorations didn't show up, we had to search all across humboldt county for any kind of hawaiian decorations. about 5 days before the dinner, tickets started selling and we knew it would be a hit.We started our prep for the dinner the day before. we marinated our chicken, made our tart dough and our ice cream, made our salad dressing. Thursday we started putting stuff together. We cooked our pork down for hours, and made the dough for the hawwaiian dinner rolls. we also made our pineapple gravy to accompany our chicken skewers.
        At four o'clock we started to decorate the cafeteria, and put together our auction. For the auction we had a ton of stuff donated to be auctioned off. we had snow boarding boots, a piano, a jacket, a teddy bear and a hat made of alpacca hair, we had a car care basket including a twenty dollar gas card, a movie basket including a thirty dollar gift card to spotlight video rental.we had alot more donations but it would take forever to list them all. As well as all of our donations we also had people make home made desserts, to put up for auction. By the end of the night the highest sold item was a white chocolate cheesecake that went for a hundred dollars.
       when we were serving dinner it got a little chaotic. we were serving the coarses as fast as we could and the people were loving the food, well except for the salad dressing. We kinda forgot to tell people that it was a little spicy and people weren't to happy about that. But in the the dinner was a success. our total profit was about $1800 dollars. We are completely done fundraising for New York so this money all goes toward the account for next year.

March equals ,busy, busy, busy!!!!!

 During march we had plenty of large catering jobs.
           On March 5th we catered a Tea Party for about 80 ederly women . For this job we made orange- cranberry, and Lemon scones as well as 5 cups of lemon curd to dip them in. we also made 4 kinds of tea sandwiches: smoked salmon and cream cheese, mint and cucumber, curried egg salad, and chicken salad.  We also made 4 kinds of cookies: chocolate mudlides, raspberry teacakes, lemon thumprints, and raspberry diamonds. The women were very satisfied with our dishes.
          We were double booked for March 12!!
      Our first job was to make desserts as well as the wedding cake for a local wedding at the Scotia Inn. For the desserts we made 250 lemon tarts with blueberries on top, and 250 cheesecake bars. the cake was a four teired cake. the bottom teir was chocolate with a chocolate mousse filling , the second was lemon with a lemon curd filling, and the top two were carrot with a cream cheese filling, all the cakes were frosted with a cream cheese icing . The cake was then decorated with a black ribbon around each teir and fresh flowers.
       The second job was library day at the veterans hall in Fortuna. This was a buffet style dinner. We made pasta , and three different sauces: we made a marinara, a meat sauce , and a creamy pesto sauce. To go with the pasta we made garlic bread and a green salad. We also had two types of salad dressing : ranch and italian. For dessert we made berry slab pies, which is a pie made on a cookie sheet. Everything was so good that people were coming back for seconds.
 All in all March is going great so far , even when we are strapped for time we still make amazing food...

Through out the winter we have had a ton of catering jobs. We did our schools winterfest , which unfortunatly was a total bust, no one was interested on our wonderful sweets. On a better note we have also catered the hcoe holiday party for which we made like 540 cookies for . After that we had a break from the catering and we took a trip to the Eureka CR campus and took an 8 hour class for servsafe. I personally passed with an 91% , but the class was soo boring and dry I was just lucky I didnt fall asleep. 

The week before christmas break we had three different catering jobs. We catered a lunch party in our campus's healthy start building , for that we made chicken parmesan , ceaser salad , garlic bread, a fruit platter , and some vanilla cupcakes with blue icing and royal icing snowflakes. We then catered a private dessert party and we made brownies , lemon tarts, mini pumpkin cheesecakes, and a ton of other delicious desserts. our last event before christmas was an 80th birthday party for a local man here in fortuna. we made paninis with apple , porschuto , gruyere cheese , all on thinly sliced bread. we also had stuffed mushrooms, chicken and beef scewers, spanicopita, and a few platters such as bread , fruit and even a sausage platter with three different kinds of mustard.

last week we didnt do staff lunches because it was are homecoming week. instead we did school spirited cupcakes and sold them to the staff. we made a chocolate cupcake with a chocolate swiss buttercream with a fondant disc with a husky pawprint on it. we also made a vanilla cupcake with a caramel swiss buttercream frosting with the same fondant disc and pawprint. in all we sold about 85 cupcakes and they were delicious!

this is the finished cupcake

a half way done bee

finished bee

baklava discs

army of bees

bri making our chicken skewers

for this week's staff lunch we made a vegitable cous cous , with either chicken or tofu skewers. to finish off the lunch we made a honey walnut cupcake with  honey buttercream frosting and a disc of baklava to top it off we also made little fondant honeybees to go on top of it

hey guys i am just adding some photos i dont plan on posting recipes for these but if you want the recipe just let me know and i will try and get it to you