The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 50 guests and a budget of $1000. The wedding is finally over! But, you might wonder, how did everything turn out? The champagne bottles are empty. The food has long since been cooked, and consumed. Promises have been made. Gifts have been given….
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with a budget of $1000. We have a menu, we have a final head count (50!) so how much is all this food going to cost? When we last talked about the wedding catering project we mainly discussed estimating food quantities. Today it’s time to…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today, a few updates and we handle the scary part, estimating food quantities. Soo… we haven’t talked about Kyra’s wedding for a little while. Not to worry, behind the scenes things have been progressing. The bride and…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we tackle the problem of a vegetarian entree. I’m going to take the risk of driving everyone bananas by pointing out one more time that I am not a meat-less type of person. I know I’ve…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we finally solve our potato salad problems. It might seem a little contrary, but, I have to being this post by mentioning, I flippin’ hate potato salad. Let’s be honest, shall we? It’s foul…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today updates, menu tweaks and a great chicken salad recipe. I know I said waaay back in June I’d have a bunch more wedding catering project posts for you. You’re probably thinking eek, the wedding…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we continue contemplating pasta salad side dishes. It’s been a while since I’ve discussed ‘The Wedding Catering Project’ so I’ll do a quick recap for you. So far we’ve decided on sweet and spicy pulled…
By my accounting we have truly moved into grilling season. I love to grill. Burgers, brats, spicy Italian sausage, steaks, chicken, veggies, you get the idea… Unfortunately, I am currently suffering from lack-of-bbq-itis. You may be imagining that the major symptom of this terribly un-tasty disease, is a lack of consumption of bbq’d foods. This,…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we examine the best choice for a meat-main dish. I’m feeling very excited about the wedding menu. Why? I’m returning to pulled pork as a main dish! I think this means the entire menu…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we search for a vegetarian main dish. So to refresh your memories, or fill in the important details for anyone new… I’ve been really excited about testing out Smitten Kitchen’s ratatouille as a possible vegetarian…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we test a recipe for a farm fresh pasta salad. I’ve begun the recipe testing phase for “The Wedding Catering Project”. I decided to start with testing pasta salad recipes because I love…
The Challenge: Design, cook, and implement a dinner menu for a backyard wedding with 80 guests and a budget of $1000. Today we debut the tentative menu. I met with Kyra (bride), Matt (groom), and Dianne (groom’s Mom) about the catering. It was an easy meeting. Kyra is an easy bride. Not a trace of bridezilla to…
So…I’m catering a wedding. How did this come about? Simple really. I volunteered myself, the offer was accepted, and here we are. The wedding is my cousin’s, well actually my husband’s cousin. But in my book a cousin is a cousin. Second cousin, cousin-in-law, is just too complicated for me. So this is for my…