For entree we served Ginger crusted chilean seabass with kiwi lime sauce, a mixed deluxe green salad with julienne of peppers, caramelized walnuts and sun dried tomatoes with a creamy tarragon dressing, butternut squash and pine nut rosotto, roasted asparagus with mixed peppers.  A delicious dessert of coconut raspberry bars, key lime tarlets and white and dark chocolate truffles with coffee.

We have done many corporate BBQ’s with ribs, chicken and burgers, usually at a beautiful picnic spot in Sunny summer california.

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Appetizer selections 

Meat - Mini Beef Brochettes OR Crispy Beef Wontons with Apricot Curry Sauce OR Lamb Meatballs stuffed with Dried Apricots OR Honey Roasted Lamb served on a Potato Crisp with Lemon Mayonnaise and Fresh Fennel Salad

Many of our Bar and Bat Mitzvah parties are theme parties. The kids choose a theme - sports, colors, candy whatever, we work around that theme, and decorate our tables in the theme. The room can be decorated by ourselves or a party planner, we work with a lot of other vendors. Menus are chosen around the theme, maybe a few Nationalities, or if red white and green can be Mexican food, or Italian, with a whole menu around pastas, pizza, etc. We have so many ideas to advise a client of what has worked before. We also have a lot of venues that we have worked with before, like the Marconi Car Museum in Tustin, great place to have a Bar Mitzvah. We have done a Bar Mitzvah on a beach, a BBQ, one in a park, one in a gymnasium, so if you are looking for ideas we can surely help.

Our kosher Catering - Kosher Gourmet Caterers, offers a unique service to our clients, and we always go the extra mile, to make it a successful for all concerned.   We take care of everything.  We customize a menu for all our clients, thus giving them a special menu for a special day, or weekend….

For main course we served at room temperature pickled fish with curry, lots of onions and bay leaves and apricots. Cube steak with a monkeygland sauce, which is a sauce rich in onions, tomatoes, garlic and chutney -delicious. Babotie - which is a traditional dish similar to meatloaf but on the sweeter and curried side. Cape chicken curry-made with a delicious selection of fresh herbs, chilli powder, cardamon, tomatoes etc, served with yellow rice with raisins. The traditional home made boerewors (this is beef sausage) served with mielie pap, this is maize meal that has been cooked with water slowly at a low temp to get thick and is served with a tomato, onion like gravy we call train smash…. We also served pumpkin fritters with cinnamon and sugar. Dessert was koeksisters, this a donut type dessert, fried dough dipped immediately in a cold sugar liquid, this gives it, its sweet flavor, but it is not glossy, or coated in the liquid, it just absorbs some, and then drips off. Fresh fruit was served as well. All the South Africans and everyone else enjoyed the evening.

Cheese blintz Recipe

Batter - 8 eggs and two cups of water - beat up till frothy,add one and a half cups flour and half a teaspoon salt, and 2 teaspoons bking powder, beat till smooth

Filling - 2 pounds cream cheese , half a pound cottage cheese, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons flour,1 tespoon vanilla, mix all together until smooth

Method - make sure to use teflon coated small frying pans, spray pan with butter spray, make sure pan is hot, add batter and swirl around till coated, tip remaining mixture out of pan. When cooked batter will come away from sides of pan, remove from pan, allow to cool for a minute, fold over top of pancake, put a tablespoon of mixture on top of fold, fold over one time over cheese mixture, then fold sides in, and continue rolling batter with mixture down until all gone, make sure that mixture is all sealed in pancake. I freeze the blintz before frying. You can fry in hot vegetable oil, halfway up blintz, or just a little margarine or butter until browned. Serve with cinnamon and sugar mixture, or cream or applesauce…enjoy

BAKED ORANGE WALNUT FRENCH TOAST

Ingredients - 4 eggs, 1 cup orange juice, 1 cup milk, quarter cup sugar, quarter teaspoon vanilla, 1 loaf french or italian bread cut into 1″ slices, one third cup butter or margarine melted, half a cup chopped walnuts, grated orange peel

Method - whisk together eggs, orange juice, milk, sugar, nutmeg and vanilla, place bread in a single layer in large, flat dish.  Pour mixture over bread, turn once, cover and refrigerate overnight.  Preheat oven to 400, pour melted butter over pan evenely, arrange soaked bread slices in a single layer in pan.  Sprinkle with walnuts, bake until golden, 15 to 20 minutes.  Sprinkle fresh orange zest on top and serve with maple syrup, garnish with orange peel- serves 4 - 8 guests

They had a very upmarket menu of Honey roasted Lamb, served on a pita chip, with Lemon Mayonnaise and fresh fennel salad. Blackened Red Snapper on Red corn Tortilla with peach relish. Ginger chicken-lime skewers with peanut sauce. Bruschetta with roasted peppers and portabe mushrooms with butternut squash boursin spread. Phyllo pastry triangles with spicy mixed vegetables. Mini corn cakes with citrus salsa. Goat cheese truffles with pistachios and sun dried tomatoes. Sweet potato and ginger roste with chive cream, ending the meal with mini fruit tartlets and choc cups with mousse and maraschino cherries. It was a smooth event, for a great company.

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