Spilled Milk Catering and the Bachelorette Party
Last year, Spilled Milk Catering was contracted by a group of young ladies throwing a Bachelorette party for their close friend in a gorgeous Rehoboth Beach cottage. The ladies wanted Spilled Milk Catering to prepare a bunch of passed bites and cocktail-size foods as well as demonstrate some of the recipes in the large kitchen in the beach house. So Spilled Milk Catering worked out a great catering menu with the group and dutifully packed up its ingredients and cooking equipment and made the trek to the beach.
The food turned out great. We arrived early enough that we could prepare almost all the food at kitchen and get it ready for the cooking demonstration. At an agreed-upon hour, we then gathered the ladies in front of the kitchen (there was a great counter next to the stove where we could easily show the ladies how we prepared the foods and cooked them) and began the “Spilled Milk Catering Cooking Hour.” We went through four recipes and demonstrated how to prepare each item, how to cook it and how to serve it. At the same time, we fed the ladies the already-prepared foods and answered any and all questions they had. The whole demonstration was interactive and very fun, and we found ourselves laughing along with the ladies. We also got the VIP Guest of Honor (aka the Bride-to-Be) involved and had her join us in the kitchen to get her hands messy and prepare some of the foods with us.
Here’s what made this particular Spilled Milk Catering event special. First, the hostesses made sure that the cooking demonstration and serving of the food maintained the weekend’s theme: the Bachelorette party. The ladies had a fun apron made for the bride-to-be that had her future last name embroidered on it after the word “Mrs.” We also selected and prepared recipes and dishes that would have some meaning for the bride-to-be: a Spanish recipe symbolizing the time the bride-to-be studied in Spain and met her future husband, a German recipe symbolic of the soon-to-be married couple’s trip to Germany and Austria. The “personal” recipes made the event that much more fun and with each dish, the ladies regaled one another and us with memories and fun stories. Second, the ladies paired each course we prepared and served with a different wine: a red for the meat course we prepared, a sparkling white for the appetizer course. Each course was paired perfectly and the ladies really enjoyed sampling the wine and discussing how it accentuated the Spilled Milk Catering menu we prepared. Finally, the whole evening was very interactive. As noted, we got the bride-to-be involved in the cooking and we threw out fun cooking facts and questions to the ladies to keep them involved. They asked us tons of questions on cooking and we showed them some cooking basics (for example, how to cut an onion) as well as provided them with some fun ideas for parties they could throw on their own with the recipes we prepared. All in all, it made for a great personalized evening and we had a great time ensuring that the ladies and the guest-of-honor had fun and enjoyed the food we prepared and demonstrated. Check out our Press page to see what the ladies had to say!
- Amti, Raj and James
