We have had plenty of catering jobs to keep us busy the past few weeks.
Last weekend, on Saturday, March 5th, we catered a tea party for 80 elderly women, that the HROP culinary class has been catering for eight years now. We made curried egg salad, chicken salad, cream cheese and smoked salmon, and cucumber mint tea sandwiches, mudslide cookies, orange cranberry and lemon scones, raspberry tea cakes, raspberry diamonds, lemon thumbprint cookies, and lemon curd. The ladies at the tea party were very satisfied with all of our hard work.
Last week we all worked our butts off to prepare for two catering jobs that both took place on Saturday, March 12th. School was cancelled on Friday due to the tsunami warning, so Kelsey and I came into class in the afternoon to help Chatfield work on all of the food we had to finish for the two caterings. One was a wedding at the Scotia Inn. We made a four tiered wedding cake with chocolate, lemon chiffon, and two tiers of carrot cake. The cake was decorated with fresh flowers and a sleek black ribbon. We also made 250 lemon tarts topped with blueberries and 250 cheesecake bars, all for the wedding. Chatfield and I delivered all of the desserts, set up the dessert table, and bolted out of there in order to make it to the Veteran's hall in time. At the Vet's hall was an event for the Fortuna Library. We catered a pasta buffet, including pasta, marinara sauce, meat sauce, and a creamy pesto sauce. To complement the pasta, we also prepared garlic bread and a green salad, with two kinds of salad dressing - ranch and Italian. For dessert we made a mixed berry slab pie - a pie baked on a cookie sheet (much easier to deal with regular pie, by the way) - topped with a dollop of freshly whipped cream. Everyone thanked us and complimented us on the delicious food.
Although these catering jobs were a lot of hard work and were both very stressful, we got paid a good chunk of change and was definitely worth it. And as of today, there are only 72 days until we leave for New York! Ahhhhh yeeeeeahhh! (:
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