Once you have arrived at the idea stage it is great to begin a business catering plan. Be meticulous when you detail how the catering business will be operated, managed and capitalized. The following checklist can help you organize your ideas into the beginning of a business catering plan.
After watching the happy couple exchange vows and begin their married life together, your guests will be hungry. Many of the guests may have scaled back on eating in order to look good for pictures or just because they were so busy during the day. So feed them right.
With the growing use of reusable grocery bags, Shelly Orr of Re-Market at Etsy, is trying out her idea of reusable produce bags. What do you guys think? Would you bring your own bags for produce and bulk items?
Reusable Produce Bags | $7.50 for set of 3
Large quantities of food should be divided into small containers for cooling.
It's February, so you know what that means: they (and you know who they are) want me to think "romance in the air." So for this month's restaurant roundup, I followed the perfume of berbere, rose water and saffron, cardamom, fenugreek and mint, garlic, ginger and galangal. I ate with my hands, with a swath of bread and with a lust for life lived elsewhere -- if only for an evening. Here's where I landed.
Maybe you read the news that last month was the warmest January on record. And perhaps you've noticed the city's ornamental cherry trees are blooming pink. But let's face it: the bloom is not yet off the rose. It's still winter. And when we cook in winter, we often turn to our freezers for inspiration. I do, anyway. Though, as I've mentioned before, what I find in there isn't always so inspiring. Today on "Food for Thought," I had a chat with my radio sidekick Dick Stein about a handful of frozen fruit and vegetable must-haves taking up royal residence in my freezer, including these: