Ahh the season of grad parties galore... hot days of sitting in under backyard tents, sweating your…read moreass off, eating mediocre catering food...
But there is hope for the catered food. I was pleasantly surprised when I attended a birthday/grad party earlier today. The company delivered 2 lovely dishes each of lemon chicken, chicken marsala, pasta with pesto, pasta with sweet roasted red pepper, pasta with a tomato cream sauce, focaccia bread, corn chutney, and a simple mista salad. I was expected dried out chicken, half-cooked pasta, and soggy salad greens.
The lemon chicken and chicken marsala were absolutely delicious. Usually, I dislike the typically sweet chicken marsala wine sauce. This sauce was savory with nice hints of marsala wine and large mushrooms swimming in the pool of sauce. :) Ahhh.. MARSALA SAUCE..MMMM... The lemon caper sauce was good as well, just not quite as mouth watering as the marsala sauce. I wish they put a few more capers in the lemon sauce to make it pop out more against the lemon flavoring. Each pan came with roughly 30 pieces of large, all white meat chicken breast, roughly 6-8 inches long and 1 inch thick. I became full off of one breast, but I had to finish both breasts.. it was that moist and delicious.
The pasta was perfectly al dente, soft without being mushy. The roasted red pepper was slightly sweet like a ripe red pepper with slight creaminess to it. The pesto was good, a little on the heavier side with the cream, though. I prefer my pestos to be true oil-based pestos- basil, pine nuts, Parmesan, olive oil, not pesto cream sauce. However, it was still delightful, enough that my sister got a whole plate of pesto pasta. The tomato cream was lacking in the tomato department- it tasted more of cream than tomato. I loved the pesto pasta the most out of all of the sauces. I wish we had several lighter sauces to try though. The pasta picked up the wonderful flavors of each of the sauces.
The focaccia bread, corn chutney and mista salad were really good as well. The focaccia bread was warm and garlicy with a nice, fresh-baked smell to them. I'm usually a fan of crostini crunchy type bread crackers, but the bread went really well with the pasta sauces.. ahhh sooo good :) The corn chutney had sweet corn kernels in a savory mixture- it was so refreshing, delicious, light, yet satisfying. The salad was freshly cut, washed and crispy. They also have this honey balsamic salad dressing that's tangy and sweet that I loved on top of the salad..
The delivery service was slow and arrived roughly 15-20 minutes later than when they were suppose to. The food was well worth the prices- it's roughly 30 large pieces of white meat chicken breast for 50.00 (full pan). They also have full pans of pasta for 55.00, sauce included. However, it was worth it for the food. I want to try their sea bass, beef tenderloin, and scallops on their catering menu too! I'm trying to persuade my mom to use the same company for a family function coming up soon! :)
