Carolyn Davis Catering

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Celebrate special occasions with your friends and loved ones the way you intended – relaxed, with style and ease. Whether it's a sit-down dinner for twenty or a cocktail party for fifty, Carolyn Davis Catering takes care of all the details, making your event seamless and memorable.

Spring Sit-down Dinner for 25

Hors d'Oeuvres

  • Fresh pea soup sippers with lemon crème fraiche
  • Fava bean crostini with shaved pecorino
  • Polenta cups with artichoke and goat cheese tapenade

First Course

  • Antipasto plate
  • Fresh figs, prosciutto, bucheron goat cheese, organic baby greens in lemon vinaigrette, oil-cured black olives

Main Course

  • Marinated grilled lamb chops with cilantro pesto
  • Roasted asparagus
  • Farro with shaved fennel, feta, and basil oil

Dessert

  • Meyer lemon mousse with fresh berries

Summer Barbecue for 40

Picnic-style Buffet

  • Baby burgers with sharp cheddar, mustard aioli, and grilled onions on homemade seeded buns
  • Grilled chicken skewers with chili, lemon zest, and garlic
  • Organic baby arugula with nectarines and Valdeon blue cheese
  • Summer succotash with zucchini and yellow squash, cherry tomatoes, and haricot verts
  • Golden corn fritters with jalapeno chutney

Summer Sweets

  • Strawberry shortcake with whipped cream
  • Chocolate chip cookies

Oscar Party for 40

Hors d'Oeuvres

  • Artisan cheeseboard with local cheeses, spiced nuts, Castelvetrano olives, crostini, housemade fig cake, and seasonal fruit
  • Roasted winter vegetables - fennel, shiitakes, baby fingerling potatoes, Nantes carrots - with bagna cauda
  • Smoked salmon on buckwheat blinis with chive crème fraiche

Buffet

  • Grilled chicken skewers with fresh thyme, roasted garlic, and Meyer lemon vinaigrette
  • Marinated portabello skewers with fresh herb salsa verde
  • Moroccan couscous salad with dried cranberries, goat cheese and herbs
  • Roasted butternut squash cubes with sauteed lacinato kale and currants
  • Organic baby greens with wild arugula, blood oranges, picholine olives, red onion, and a tangerine vinaigrette

Dessert

  • Decadent chocolate brownies with sea salted caramel sauce
  • Homemade Peruvian alfajores cookies