Wedding Reception
I was contracted to provide three, heat and serve entree items a for a small, 120 person reception buffet this past weekend. Hors d'oeuvres and salads were provided by friends and family. Because I needed to feed 120 people I wanted at least 120 pieces of each item. To guarantee everyone some of everything and possible seconds, I prepared 140 pieces of the following three items which required a 48 hours of musical freezer, refrigerator thaw, marinate, refrigerator, oven, gril
Italian Ricotta Cookies
After the Wedding cookies were done I started on the Ricotta cookies. Again, a reasonably simple cookie with more of a cake texture than your typical cookie crumb type texture. The ingredients are. 1/2 lb. butter 2 cups sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 lb. Ricotta cheese 2 large eggs 1 tsp. Vanilla 1 orange zest 4 and 1/2 cups flour 1 and 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 and 1/2 tsp. baking soda SIFT THE FLOUR, BAKING POWER AND BAKING SODA TOGETHER Combine and cream your butter and sugar an
Italian Wedding Cookies
I got a call a few days ago from a long time friend asking if I could make some Italian cookies for her this Saturday. She said she had a Italian family reunion and wanted to take some cookies and would need about 100. Well the only Itallian cookies I'm familiar enough with to attempt to bake them for someone else are Ricotta Cookies and one of my two favorite cookies, the Italian Wedding Cookie. She said that would be fine. Plus she wanted a couple extra items that don't bea
