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Posted at July 30, 2011, 7:30 am:

I am losing sleep over a catering job I have coming up in three weeks. Please help me! I've only been catering for a little over a year and this by far will be my biggest and nicest job yet.

I have a menu of crudite and tomato crostini for hors d'oeuvre, a potato & zucchini minestra for soup course, spring salad course, and the main entree will be a pasta dish of farfalle with shrimp, sun dried tomatoes, mushrooms & pine nuts in a light cream sauce.

Here's my sleep loss. How can I prepare this ahead of time? The dinner will be a plated dinner for about 75. I rent my kitchen and it's not available to me that day until about 4:00 pm. The dinner is at 7:00. I have all the time in the world the night before. I'm not worried about the hors d'oeuvre, soup or salad, because that's all doable day-before. I'm worried about the pasta. Can anyone give me advice in how to prepare for this? Please, any advice will be SO appreciated!!!!

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Replies:

You could precook dried pasta about 3/4 to al dente, dump it in cold w...

We add oil ( just a couple of tablespoons) to the water and pour the d...

Thanks for the advice so far.

Jenni, I don't what your recipe is or what your sauce base is.

For 75 servings? Jenni, get enough help and cook the pasta for dinn...

Is that 12 pounds of pasta cooked or uncooked? If that is cooked past...

Multi-tasking.

Okay, I saw the facility's kitchen last night.

Depending on how much "stuff" you garnish your pasta with, I...

Jenni you have alot of food.

jenni belle, I have not read all the post except for a few that cal...

2 warming ovens? Put your soup cups on a sheet pan and put it in the ...

shroomgirl: Yes, there will be bread and butter.

If your aps are stationary, get help from waitstaff on dressing and mi...

I just wanted to thank everyone for all their help.

Fantastic congratualtions to you Jenni.

Welcome to the wonderful world of catering.

...and now you knwo to add the pain-in-the-*** factor to events at tha...

Congratulations! It sounds like everything went very well and you sho...

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