The Foods Spilled Milk Catering Craves at Cocktail Parties
Cocktail parties. Who doesn’t like cocktail parties? Drinks all around, interesting people to talk to, fun music to listen to, and the best part, bite-sized foods that soak up some of that alcohol and make for even more interesting conversation. Spilled Milk Catering has been invited to its fair share of cocktail parties and has certainly catered many a Washington, DC cocktail party (in fact, we get asked most often to cater cocktail parties), and we have come up with a list of the top foods that we crave and love to eat at cocktail parties. Here goes:
- Any kind of prepared chicken wing, whether doused in hot sauce or “deviled” and fried the way we do it at Spilled Milk Catering;
- Bruschetta and/or crostini and the assorted toppings that can come with it (we’re obviously partial to Spilled Milk Catering’s version of garlic-rubbed bruschetta and crostini and the thyme-marinated mushrooms and basil tomatoes we serve with them);
- Assorted cheeses, especially ones that you don’t eat every day, like Manchego, or a tangy Gouda, or a runny and stinky blue cheese;
- Spilled Milk Catering’s Almonds Roasted in Chili Oil (‘nuff said);
- Sliders, both beef and turkey/chicken (Spilled Milk Catering once had to make 250 of these for an event; the client and their guests loved them when we paired them with some fun sauces and a “toppings bar” we provided);
- Any flatbread or mini-pizza, especially if hand-tossed with interesting ingredients like bufala mozzarella, prosciutto, broccoli rabe, and/or roasted garlic;
- Spilled Milk Catering’s famous Spanish chicken-and-ham croquettes with Dijon sauce (no joke, our clients always ask us to make these and who can’t love them? Deep-fried, bite-sized, hot, savory, slightly sweet, and delicious);
- Cucumber cups with a cool and refreshing topping, such as a salmon cream or a yogurt sauce;
- Marinated lamb lollipops (again, we’re partial to Spilled Milk Catering’s Indian-Spice Marinated Lamb Lollipops, and so are our clients….all of them); and
- Dates stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in bacon (Spilled Milk Catering makes a killer version of this sweet-and-savory passed bite).
Yum. Just listing all these foods has our stomachs growling, Take a look at our Menu (http://www.spilledmilkcatering.com/catering-menus/passed-bites) to see the cocktail-size foods that Spilled Milk Catering can and does prepare and compare it to this list….you’ll see some overlap and it may inspire you to come up with your own cocktail party ideas or work with Spilled Milk Catering to come up with your next cocktail party.
- Amit, Raj and James
