Let's add a kid home sick from school and see how we manage throwing that on the pile?? Sore throat?? Sure! Why not, nothing going on over here that wouldn't be more fun being shoved to the side for a quick trip to the Doctor's Express on Ridgewood Ave this morning (shout out to them though, they are fast and FANTASTIC).
While there cell phone rings...
"Oh you're around the corner?" HVAC guy asks. "Great! Can you come over to the house to see where to put these circulators (regulators? percolators?? I have no idea what you just said...) because your husband said to ask you, and only you for the answers to everything." Hey why not?? I have no f*cking clue what the answers are to any of these questions, but I can fake it if you can, right??
I mean seriously, how do people build houses?? Am I supposed to know where to put vents and electrical outlets and soffits and percolators (still don't think I have that right)? I know NOTHING. NOTH. ING. Well, that's not true, I can make a Ginger Marinated Shrimp over Thai Peanut Noodles that will make you cry its so tasty and delicious, but tell you how big a window to add to my mudroom because the lighting just doesn't seem right (4'?? 5'??) and I want to run out the door (which I did after shrugging my shoulders and saying, 'huh, I don't know, whatever you think?').
Can someone please tell me this gets easier? Because I'm pissed off I had to miss my favorite boot camp this morning for a non-strep sore throat (bastard!!) and then had to go over to that House of Death with its hanging wires and holes in the floor and feel like I am the stupidest human for not having a single answer to what I feel are inane, non-important questions in the scheme of things? Aren't there people I can hire for this?? Because you all hire me to make you dinner - I'm not supposed to have all the answers am I??
Good. Thank you for saying that. Because I don't. Now order up. Because there is something I do know a thing or two about and that's that my food...is nothing less than divine.
And we DELIVER. Top that.
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You remember those days when you had a newborn in the house waking up every three or four hours,
You remember those days when you had a newborn in the house waking up every three or four hours, a few other little punks around 2 and 4 beating the crap out of each other every waking minute and you literally felt like all you did was move from kitchen counter to changing table to dishwasher and back to kitchen counter?? If you didn't have a kid hooked up to your boob (or a bottle - hey, I ain't judging, been there, done that, both ways), a bottle brush in one hand and a fork shoving frozen chicken fingers into your toddlers with the other, it just wasn't a day?? Eyes half shut, hair matted with ketchup and what was that?? - poo?? diaper cream?? - and all you wanted was for your husband to walk through that door so you could run SCREAMING for the hills for an hour to feel like a human again??
Well, while I will never, and I mean NEVER ever have kids that age again (tie 'em up folks - TIE THEM UP) making me want to stick knitting needles my eye sockets if only so I could close them for a while (sorry, but that's just not a phase I want to relive again, EVER), that exhaustion, that sheer level of "I-can't-keep-my-freaking-eyes-open-another-minute" tiredness is feeling oh-so-familiar to me these days.
I am cracking at the seams. I am beaten. I have met my match and his name is HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION. I can do a lot. I mean, you know me, I can manage the sh*t out of a lot of stuff. Four kids. Communion season in full force with five events this week. Weekend sports schedule & Alumni Day at Princeton all in the last 48 hours; scoop of vanilla, scoop of chocolate, I got it. But give me a week with all that PLUS HVAC guys, electricians, plumbers and contractors all giving me lists with questions and demands that I just don't have the answers to and I am feeling like I would love to locate those knitting needles and stick them in someone else's eye sockets and his name begins with Hus and ends with Band.
So I'm just gonna pretend my phone doesn't work. Sorry Mr. Builder but my cell doesn't get service in the kitchen so call my hubbie and let me focus on the FOOD!!!
Because scroll down folks and see that this week we have a long list of our GREATEST HITS!! These are our TOP SELLERS over the past six months. Every time we make 'em, we sell out of them so we figured why not put them all on the same menu?? I know, wily little buggers we are. And we are selling in TWO places!! Regular MNO at my kitchen (The Community Church of HHK) AND at the Spring Boutique at the United Methodist Church on Thursday from 9-3pm!! Food! Accessories! Clothes! House wares! Desserts! SPRING BOUTIQUE is selling it ALL!!!
So dinner now. Go do a little shop. And then pick up at the church or oh, the other church!!
Do it now.
We ran CLEAR OUT last week.
1) GINGER MARINATED SHRIMP with THAI SESAME NOODLES WITH CUCUMBERS, CARROTS & RED PEPPER ($14.50/DINNER)
2) GINGER MARINATED CHICKEN WITH THAI SESAME NOODLES WITH CUCUMBERS, CARROTS & RED PEPPER ($14.50/DINNER)
3) WHEATBERRIES WITH DRIED CRANBERRIES, FUJI APPLES, TOASTED PECANS, SHREDDED KALE & GORGONZOLA IN MAPLE ORANGE VINAIGRETTE ($12.50/SALAD)
4) BAJA CHICKEN SALAD WITH GRILLED CHICKEN, ROASTED CORN, QUESO FRESCA, CHERRY TOMATOES, CREAMY GUACAMOLE & CRISPY TORTILLA CHIPS IN CITRUS LIME VINAIGRETTE ($12.50/SALAD)
5) GRILLED FLANK STEAK OVER ARUGULA WITH MINI MOZZARELLA BALLS, CHERRY TOMATOES, ROASTED RED PEPPERS IN A LIGHT BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE ($12.50/salad)
6) CHOPPED THAI SHRIMP SALAD OVER NAPA CABBAGE WITH EDAMAME, CHOPPED SNOW PEAS, GRATED CARROTS, ROASTED CASHEWS IN A RED CHILI PEANUT DRESSING ($12.50/salad)
7) GAZPACHO with DICED AVOCADO ($11/quart)
8) PASTA FAGIOLE ($11/quart)
11) CRISPY PANKO CRUSTED CHICKEN FINGERS WITH HOMEMADE HONEY MUSTARD ($9/1/2lb order)
12) BUFFALO STYLE PANKO CRUSTED CHICKEN FINGERS ($9/1/2lb order)
13) CRUNCHIFIEDS OR WHITE CHOCOLATE PRETZEL BARK ($4/bag)
Order Now. PICK UP at THE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF HOHOKUS (enter through the blue doors by the playground)
12pm-3:30pm
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Yo Peeps...guess what's in the house?? HEALTHY is in the HOUSE.
What's fun about Healthy you ask?? Well, in my opinion, generally speaking, not much. However, that's like Weight Watchers or South Beach un-fun. Not Catch-y Caterer un-fun.
When you talk to a caterer who loves food as much as I do (any and all will do, no preference for Frozen Yogurt over Ice Cream just as long as it's something frosty & delicious) and who loves FLAVOR-PACKED food as much as I do (can you say Deep Fried Macaroni & Cheese Bites or like, Buffalo Chicken Nuggets?!?), I will find a way to make HEALTHY food taste FANTASTIC. True story. I will also, and this is my personal favorite thing about my version of healthy food, be serving it to you in a Monster portion. Because I, my friends, am a VOLUME EATER....that means if someone places a butt-load of food on my plate, I am going to take the entire thing down to the studs. Yup. That's just what a member of the Clean Plate Club does. Booyah.
So not only are we 'cleaning' up an Italian favorite (Chicken Parm becomes Baked Panko Crusted Stuffed Chicken) by rolling it in Panko and BAKING it so it gets that crunchy, lovely crust on it, but we are also grilling up some Dijon Peach Pork Tenderloin Kabobs for you and throwing some fruit & veg there on the stick for you too (can you say Roasted Pineapple YUM?). Get your protein and your fruits & veggies, kill two birds with one stone sister. I got ya covered. You know it.
So order up either dinner - both are smoking hot ROCK STARS in the food department and toss a Shredded Kale & Quinoq Salad in there for good measure. Can't say the Blackened Shrimp Cobb or Chicken Fingers are healthy per se, but they are DAMN good.
And let us drop it to your doorstep. WHY NOT RIGHT?? You don't need to add another thing to your to-do list.
Order now. Running low on the chow...not everyone is leaving town and so food is going fast.
Check out our new website and order up!
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You know when you were little and got a brand new toy or piece of sports equipment
(okay,YES, we all know I was a ridiculous Tomboy and only played sports and wore boys' haircuts, don't be a hater) and you just couldn't stop playing with it, petting it and glazing lovingly at it?? Happened again when I had my firstborn and I was so in love that I would creep into her room just to stare at her after she was sleeping (not the other three, once the novelty wore off, I knew that if I woke them up it would just be a sh*tshow).
Well THAT'S what I've been doing ALL week with my new website www.thecatchycaterer.com. DIG IT!! It's INSANE!! New food pics, cool buttons to click, all my kids right there on the screen on every page (love! yes - love all four of them, not just the first one though after reading the last paragraph you may have assumed) AND you can order everything from MOM'S NIGHT OFF! all at the touch of your fingertip!! I love it! It's a like a shiny new baseball mitt or a kickin' pair of sneakers (again, Tomboy, I know, pathetic).
And anyone looking to throw a KICKIN' Cinco de Mayo rager, your 8th graders Graduation party or the most BANGIN' Fourth of July party anyone has EVER seen (can we say The Catch-y Caterer's Sginature Bleu Cheese Burgers, Smoky BBQ ribs, Cheddar Corn Pudding & Gooey Butter Bars - you supply the fireworks) - THIS is the website to visit. We have staff, we take care of rentals, and we supply the most *SS-KICKING food imaginable. Yes, that's a promise. We are loading up a bunch of menu ideas this week onto the site so while that happens just click on over to the MOM'S NIGHT OFF! page and dabble in some Drunken Flank Steak & Roasted Reds, a Thai Shrimp Rice Bowl, some Fresh Gazpacho with DICED Avocado (giddy up!!) or our FAMOUS Panko Crusted Chicken Fingers (they do not disappoint) this week.
Oh, and we STILL DELIVER. Like right to your doorstep. Do you need us to make this ANY easier for you?? Don't get stuck pissed off that you didn't just hit reply right now and order up. Seriously. I've seen it happen. Our food is so fresh you & your family can eat it ALL weekend long (when I'm in sunny Florida with friends btw - again, don't be a hater). So order. Now.
Text your order now 917.721.9217
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I'm such a sh*tty mom. Upside?? I'm not a sh*tty chef.
CHECK. IT. OUT.
THE CATCH-Y CATERER'S new website is LIVEEEEEE.
That means (for all you non-techonoligical folk, of which I count myself one) click on this link towww.thecatchycaterer.com right now and you can seeEVERYTHING THE CATCH-Y CATERER can do for you from menus for this week's MOM'S NIGHT OFF!, to all the events we can cater for you (from First Communions to Graduations to Bar Mitzvahs & Weddings: staff, food, rentals, can you say partayyyyyy?) to corporate holiday and summer events. DIG THAT BABY!! Book your event like right stink in' NOW!!!
So it's been a WEEK. Getting everything up and ripping for the new site, kicking out a few parties for Easter & MOM'S NIGHT OFF! as well as the general crazy sh*t *ss life of a working mom (dying Easter Eggs, new spring sports carpools, picking out shower fixtures for the new house)...good times. So after cooking Easter dinner for everyone else, we decided in the Cacciabaudo household we would hit the club and let them cook for us. BOOM! Order up!
Well, of course I forget to make a reservation for brunch until like, I don't know, Thursday, so we end up Brunch-ing at 4:30pm (not exactly prime French Toast & Bacon time, ey?). I loved when JT asked me how that happened...uh, hmm, because you're wife can organize everyone else's gastronomical needs but our own? Yup. Pretty much.
But the capper was when we showed up to the club with JT, Billy & his Dad all sans-ties (wtf? since when is Easter a TIE-necessary event??) and were turned away. As in, 'let me see what ties I have in the back for you and your entire male crew and maybe we can seat you in the back room. Oh, and your son doesn't have a jacket? And is wearing ghetto sneakers? Yeah, just go home). So embarrassing. I loved when I actually turned to Billy and said, "those are the only shoes you have to wear to the club Billy?" Like he had been out LOAFER SHOPPING?
I'm such a sh*tty mom. Upside?? I'm not a sh*tty chef. So check out the ROCKIN' menu this week and while you do that I will I will be hitting the mall with Billy to procure some new kicks for his sister's First Communion coming up. Would hate to be seated in the kitchen the next time we show up for "brunch."
Text your order now 917.721.9217 or
on our new website!!!
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