Kelsie's Married!!!

          This past Saturday we catered our first wedding of the year. It was for a Kelsie and Boden Lipscomb. Kelsie was a student from last years culinary arts III class , so as you can imagine we were very excited to cater this particular event.
         For this event we made deviled eggs, meat, cheese ,cracker, and vegetable platters for appetizers. Some of the family members also contributed to the appetizers with fruit salad.
         For dinner we served tri tip, cheese raviolis, scalloped potatoes, macaroni salad, with the addition of baked beans. and caesar salad from the family members.
         We also provided the wedding cake for the reception and it turned out beautiful. Of course kelsie wanted to test us because last year chatfield said she would never make a funfetti cake. so in true kelsie nature she asked for the bottom tear of the cake to be none other than homemade funfetti cake, with a pastry cream filling. the second layer was strawberry cake with a strawberry and whip cream filling. The third tear was a banana cake with a banana custard filling and the top tear was a chocolate cake with a chocolate mousse filling.We also made kelsie her own little funfetti cake because she doesn't like butter cream or cream cheese frosting and she wanted a white cake. So while the wedding cake was frosted with butter cream kelsie had her own frosted with whip cream. The entire cake was frosted white, with a frosting pearl border and a hunter green ribbon on each layer with fresh flowers strategically placed along the cake.
         All in all the wedding went great for the first job. Next time I think we might want to make a few changes , such as the timing on when food goes out, and making sure we have a check list for what goes out and when, because we accidentally forgot to put out the compound butter we made with the rolls for dinner.

STAFF LUNCHES!!!

     we have officially started our staff lunches again. For our fisrst lunch we made coconut chicken soup / vegitarian coconut soup with spring rolls and a lime coconut whoopie pies. This lunch was a success everyone loved the lunch and our class worked together pretty well for the first lunch. Our second lunch was lime chicken or lime porabello with a pablano sourcream , green salad, rice , and a mexican hot chocolate tart.  this lunch was a little rockier because our chicken had to cook longer than we expected and our lunches were a little late but the lunch tasted and looked great and the customers were understanding and loved the lunches. we are doing our third lunch this week and it will be chicken fetticini alfredo , or a roasted vegitable fetticini with garlic rolls, green salad with a vinagrette, and mini apple upside down cakes.
   
  we have also done our first two catering jobes. The first one was a retirement party that was held at the HCOE building in Eureka.  For this party we did spring rolls, proscuitto wrapped asperagus, deviled eggs,fruit kababs, and pink camo cake. This catering job went off without a hitch and was perfect for a first catering job. The second job was another retirement party , but it was held here at the high school in the staff room. for this catering job we made lime chicken, or a lime portebello , with the pablano sourcream sauce green salad and of course a cake for the retiree.