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City of Lights First Annual Awards Dinner a Success!

First off, a warm and hearty thank you to all of the bicycle, immigrant rights, and social justice communities and volunteers that turned out for our dinner last Thursday! We honored Councilman Ed Reyes, Raul Añorve, IDEPSCA Executive Director, and two day laborer center coordinators, Jose Veliz and Ernesto Vázquez for their hard work and contributions to keeping City of Lights vibrant and equitable. What a great turnout-we had roughly 80 in attendance, lovely food, courtesy of Advantage Catering, large Silent and Live Auctions and raised quite a bit of money! This is truly important in order to keep City of Lights sustainable, as well as retaining the ability to keep focused on our work on the ground in the community, based off of their needs.

 

 

Merck Event Went Great!

We catered the the Merck luncheon at the Fancy Hospital in Pacoima for about 80 staff members.  We served Lamb and Kobe Beef Meatballs, Chicken Fingers,Tortellini With Mozzarella Soy Cream Sauce: Spinach, Carrot & Parsnip Pasta With Creamy Soy Mozzarella, We also had Baked Jalapeno Poppers, Lemonade with Mint water Coffee tea and lots more including Chocolate Chip brownies and Chocolate Cream Cheese brownies.

 

 

We Catered the Meg Whitman voter appreciation event and it was Yumm

 

 

Kenya from GMAC said "Thanks for being our cater for this lunch event, you did a great Job. Master servicing food was good and liked the real plates and glasses to celebrate with. A our people commented on how nice you were as well.

 

We had a great time catering for our new client.  If you are having a corporate event give us a call so we can help you as well

 

 

 

Why Knot

Our team went to the Knot.com annual advertiser appreciation event.  It was so cool.  The Decor was done by Rrivre Works and there was lots of great partners there from Cotton Candy Companies to Ice Cream to Photo booths and many others.  Lots of great apitsers and 3 open bars all night.  Wow thanks so much to the Knot team and all the partners who made the event one of the best of the year.

Breakfast of Champions

Advantage Catering is on the set of a new motion pitcher from Disney.  We are offering breakfast of Eggs, Pancakes and Quesadillas.  Fallowed by snacks of fresh fruit, Sun Chips, Coffee Tea, Lemonade, Ice Tea and many other items.  We fallowed all this with a great lunch.  If you are doing a production please consider calling us at 818-624-4242

 

Chef Jeff's Watermelon Shooters

I thought I would share one of my popular soup dishes.  This is usually on my menu for the summer but It is good anytime.  This dish is great for a part where you want to come down from a lot of drinks or ad some Vodka to kick it up.  Also just as a nice virgin cocktail at your picnic. or as a smooth soup shooter.  If you try this please let me know how you used it and what happened.

Watermelon Shooters

4 cups diced seedless watermelon (about 3 pounds)

1 cup diced tomatillos (about 2 tomatillos)

1 1/2 tablespoons diced jalapeño (about 1 small jalapeno, seeded)

3 tablespoons fresh lime juice

Zest of 1 lime

1/2 teaspoon salt

Pinch cayenne

1 lime, thinly sliced, and each slice quartered, for garnish

Optional Additions: 1/2 Cup of good Vodka in the food processor Special equipment: 2 dozen 2-ounce shot glasses or cordial glasses

Put the watermelon, tomatillos, jalapeño, lime juice, lime zest, salt, and cayenne into a food processor, working in batches if necessary. Process until the mixture is smooth. Chill well before serving, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day. To serve, pour the gazpacho into shot glasses and garnish with a lime slice.
Yield: 20-24 shooters

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Can be made 1 day before.

 

 

The 4th is coming sooner then you think

Summer is the perfect time for July 4th patriotism and fountain fun with cirque style floating spheres. No water? They are equally charming when land based. Customize the look and costumes to fit your event.

 

SHOW THE LOVE!
Start any wedding reception off right with easy-to-handle portions of guests’ favorite flavors: 

Create bite-sized antipasto with marinated button mushrooms, peppers, onions, cheese and basil laced onto bamboo skewers.



Small round plates neatly top stemware with the perfect wine pairing. 



Try a twist on the classic BLT with a pastrami, Imitation crab and basil sandwich:

Sour dough bread 
cut into a heart shape and lightly toasted with butter

Imitation Crab salad 
(chunks of Pollock, mayonnaise, diced celery, lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste)

pastrami
(thinly sliced and pan seared)

Baby spinach 
(1 leaf per sandwich)

Roma tomato 
(1 thin slice per sandwich)

Chili aioli 
(Chili pepper, lemon juice mayonnaise)

How about having a Portrait Artist-at your next event?