Autumn Harvest Event: Designed in Pumpkin Orange and White

It’s fall and last week we helped Lincoln Property Company celebrate the change in seasons with their brokers. The brokers were invited to view the 4^th floor of their 55 Ivan Allen Plaza space, a beautiful high rise office building. Because the space is a un-built-out floor, we needed to transform the concrete drabness with lantern lighting and bright pumpkin orange linens. We used a large central buffet to draw the guests into the space and kept them there with seating near the buffets.

We celebrated with a hearty central lunch buffet, beverage service, and pick-up dessert treats.

The registration table as guests entered off the elevator

Seating for 10, with white resin chairs

Detail: Centerpiece

Guests were invited to enjoy a beverage bar serving sodas and fresh apple cider garnished with fresh apples and cinnamon sticks.

We used real hand-carved hollowed pumpkins as the ice buckets and kept the pumpkin tops for décor!

Seating View

The Dessert Buffet was set-up on a 6ft table, two leaning shelves, and two stacked shelves. We served fall themed pick-up sweets like our apple tartans and pumpkin flavored cheesecake bites.

Detail: Central Buffet Décor.

We served items that could be plattered mostly from our shop in order to minimize the amount of prep we needed to do in the raw space. We brought 2 of our mini ovens in order to do some light heating.

A Beautiful Tasting at Added Touch!

Some highlights from the Added Touch Kitchen!

Seared Tuna on a Wonton Crsip

Chicken and Apple Sausage in a Puff Pastry

Warm Tomato, Feta, and Fresh Basil Tart

Garden Green Salad with Parsnips and Tangy Pear Vinaigrette

Perfect Poached Salmon with Red Pepper Tartar Sauce, Dill, and Lemon Rounds

Tenderloin of Beef Served with Creamy Horseradish Sauce, Steamed Asparagus, and Caramelized Onions

Mini Lemon Tarts, Meringue Pavlovas, and Gooey Molton chocolate Cookies

Layered Turtle Mud Pie with Caramel and Mousse

Sweet Wishes!

Added Touch Featured in Atlanta Occasions Magazine!

Added Touch is featured in the latest Summer/Fall 2010 issue of Atlanta Occasions Magazine. The article featured a Bat-Mitzvah Party we catered earlier this year. The entire event was designed in natural hues of orange and green “with a dash of Anthropology style thrown in.”

Here are a few things they had to say about us:

“…Guests chose from a wide range of unique orange libations, including international sodas, juices and smoothies. The stand out was an orange ‘mocktail’ served in mason jars featuring the peony logo.”

“The dessert table, created by Added Touch Catering, was a huge hit with children and adults alike and featured mini crème brulee, pumpkin and chocolate mousse, cheesecake pops, miniature peach pies, brownies, and more. ‘They loved the desserts,’ raved Weinstein. ‘It was a huge dessert display. They arranged all of it on wire cake stands with twigs and branches to appear in the center of trees.

“Olivia…offered her guests fresh chocolate chip cookies packaged in a brown paper bag sealed with a peony sticker, and had ice cold milk waiting, a perfect way to end the fabulous evening on a sweet note.”

We could not agree more.

Pick up a copy of Occasions magazine to read the full story!

Try our recipe for Delicious Pumpkin and Butternut Squash Soup!

This weekend we made Pumpkin Butternut Squash Soup for the Mock Mitzvah. Now you can make it too!

Serves 8-10
Soup:
16 Cups pealed and chopped seasonal butternut squash
1 chopped sweet yellow onion
2.5 tablespoons of extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 16 ounce can unsweetened pumpkin
20 cups Low Sodium Chicken Stock
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste

Heat oven to 400 degrees. On large cookie tray toss chopped squash and onion in olive oil. Roast for 30 minutes turning every few minutes. Put squash and onions in soup pot. Add pumpkin, broth, brown sugar, and spices. Bring to Boil. Lower heat for 45 minutes.

Spiced Pecans:
16 Ounces chopped Pecans
1 table spoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon jerk seasoning
While soup is on low heat preheat oven to 350 degress toss spices and pecan together and bake for 15 minutes.

Puree soup with crumbled blue cheese and spiced pecans

Presentation for the Mock Mitzvah!