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Special Event In Freeport For Major Maine Retailer

admin — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:05:44 +0000

Belle Fete was asked to cater a special event for a major retailer with Maine hunting and fishing theme. The client asked us to highlight fish and meat that is indiginous to Maine.

We created the following menu:

Jerky station using locally smoked meats
Venison skewers with a blueberry sauce
Homemade Maine smoked trout on homemade crackers
Smoked wild turkey sausages with mustard in puff pastry

To create a tablescape that would emphasize the Maine woods we used various sizes of round wood as the platforms for the food. We created food signs with natural colored papers and attached pieces of pine trees to them.

The simple design allowed the natural elements to speak for themselves.

Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Birthday Party

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:30:40 +0000

The Lerner Garden of the Five Senses at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens was the perfect setting for a birthday celebration. The guest of honor and her family come to Boothbay every summer and they wanted to hold the party in a place that means so much to all of them. We worked together to create a menu that highlighted the best of Maine with a touch of Mexico, another location that the birthday “girl” holds dear. Guests came in from all over the country for this perfect evening.

Menu

Passed Appetizers

Maine Mushroom Tartlet

With caramelized onions and local goat cheese

Chorizo Corn Tortilla

Homemade corn tortillas with chorizo, manchengo cheese, topped with avocado lime mayo

Tomato Bruschetta

Fresh tomato bruschetta on garlic crostini

Lobster Salad Cups

Traditional Maine lobster salad served in a crispy phyllo cup

Mini Pizza Bites

Homemade pizza dough with the following toppings: caramelized onions, goat cheese and sauteed mushrooms; asparagus, ham and fontina cheese; and traditional Margarita

Birthday Cake

Mini Blueberry Tarts

Coastal Maine Botanical Garden – Antiques in the Garden

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:27:35 +0000

Belle Fete was a featured caterer at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden’s annual Annual Antiques in the Garden Party. This year we created our Maine Farmer’s Market Display.

Fresh vegetables from our local Brunswick Farmer’s market

Belle Fete dips- Classic Tomato Brushcetta, Garlic Herb Boursin and Artichoke Creme

Maurice Bonneau’s Smoked Sausage

Pineland Farms Cheese

Assorted Crackers and Crostini

Testimonial — Birthday Party @ Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:14:22 +0000

What a wonderful party it was, many thanks to you and your team. Everyone had a terrific time and my mom, especially (and most importantly!), was so happy. We truly value all the advice you gave us — from saying “trust us” with your amazing cake chef/designer, to how many tables/chairs would be appropriate given the occasion and guests, to the types of food and drink to serve to accommodate our budget — everything was spot on.

I have truly appreciated your professionalism from the moment I first contacted you through to this final invoice. You added so many special touches too: the beautiful fresh pepper vases filled with flowers on the serving trays, the flowers you brought from your own garden to adorn the bar table, the cake table and linens you ordered, and the complete attention you paid to my mom’s preferences for pastel colors.

All the timing was perfect and the fact that you even put the kids’ pizzas on serving trays was so lovely! Thank you, thank you! The food was delicious and presented beautifully and your team of servers were efficient, polite and so pleasant.

All the best to you! If you every need to provide a reference to a client prospect, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Take good care,

R.H.

Coastal Maine Botanical Garden Event

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:41:41 +0000

If you haven’t been to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens recently it is really worth a visit! The gardens have grown by leaps and bounds this year. CMBG asked us to design a special cocktail party to thank all of the people responsible for making the gardens grow.

We chose to utilize locally grown produce which we highlighted with our stationary Maine Farmer’s Market display.

On the display we featured Maurice Bonneau’s smoked sausage’s, Pineland Farm and Great Hill cheeses as well as our own homemade artichoke and spinach creme and roasted garlic carmelized onion dip.

To keep the party interesting we served passed appetizers in several waves

Wave One

Maine mushroom, carmelized onion and goat cheese tartlets

Atlantic salmon cakes topped with lemon garlic aioli

Wolfneck Farm beef satay

Wave Two

Gazpacho served in cucumber cups

Chicken brochettes

Sundried tomato stuffed mushrooms

Wave Three

Chocolate Mousse Spoons

Lemon Tartlets