A Chinese New Year-Inspired Menu

For a meet and greet at DeVries Global Public Relationships, I developed an afternoon tea menu that celebrated the Chinese New Year. With a nod and a wink to the East, I cooked up Chinese chicken salad and smoked salmon and dill mascarpone tea sandwiches; served crudite and artisanal cheese on pretty China plates; and baked candied ginger & coconut brownies and Chinese Five Spice & white chocolate blondies. Goodbye horse, hello year of the sheep!

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> Lemon Five Spice Semolina Shortbread Cookie Recipe

Fill Your Fridge With Healthy Meals To Go

Everyone wants to come home to a fridge full of delicious and nutritious, home-cooked meals that they can just warm up and enjoy. Not everyone has the time or ambition to figure out what they like and what their family likes to keep that promise of healthy and tasty food alive. Allow me!

I prepare healthy meals with a variety of of lean protein, grains and vegetables for clients. I use fresh ingredients and create flavorful meals that are easy to take with you wherever you go — all stacked neatly in your fridge in Tupperware.

Email anthony@anthonyleberto.com to learn more about pricing and menu options. See some of the menu offerings below and here:

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> Check out what Anthony Leberto Catering can cook up for your next baptism, wedding or work event

Order Your Holiday Cookie Box Today

This holiday season, order a box of homemade, gourmet cookies catered to your liking. Each box is filled with your choice of homemade holiday cookies. There are 12 flavors being offered for this season, and each one is as delectable as the next.

Make your cookie box size selection:

1) One-Shot Box ($10) – One bag of cookies in the flavor of your choice (6 cookies total)
2) Mini Assortment ($20) – 3 bags of cookies, 5 cookies in each bag (15 cookies total); 3 flavors of your choice, or “Chef’s Choice”
3) Big Box of Cookies ($50) – Select 5 flavors of your choice; 15 bags of 3 cookies in each; 45 cookies total
4) Santa’s Sampler ($30) – 12 bags of cookies, 2 cookies in each bag (24 cookies total); A sampling of each of the 12 days of cookies!

Select your cookie(s):
1. Oatmeal, Peanut Butter & Raisin
2. Chocolate Malted Milk Biscotti
3. Green Tea & White Chocolate
4. Chocolate-Coconut Meringue Drops
5. Chocolate Spice Crackled Cookies
6. Salty Chocolate Chunk Cookies
7. Ginger, Orange & Fennel Biscotti
8. Snickerdoodles
9. Gingerbread Cutouts
10. Gluten & Dairy Free Chocolate Cherry Cookies
11. Chocolate Pecan Toffee
12. Lemon Crumiri (Cornmeal Cookies)

Each cookie box is carefully packaged in bags and then beautifully wrapped in boxes with tissue paper. They make wonderful gifts. Anyone will love receiving these festive treats for the holidays. Contact anthony@anthonyleberto.com to place an order. Happy Holidays!

With A Twist! Update Your Thanksgiving Sides

Cooking and eating should be fun. Shake up what’s expected to give your holiday guests something deliciously surprising. Just take what I’ve learned from my experiments in seasoning and mix-ins below and apply to your own classic holiday fare. We’re talking a little sage to the plain potato, some sweet raisins in the stuffing, and mushrooms in the brussels sprouts. Skip the same-old same-old this Thanksgiving with these 3 new ideas for standard sides.

The Potato

Out: Mashed Potatoes With Butter, Salt & Pepper
In: Savory Sage and Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes

The Brussels Sprout

Out: Frozen Brussel Sprouts In Butter Sauce
In: Brussels Sprouts with Chanterelle Mushrooms and Herbs

The Stuffing

Out: From-The-Box Stuffing Mix
In: Caramelized Wild Mushroom, Golden Raisin & Pecan Stuffing

> Get the recipe!

More Thanksgiving Menu Ideas!

> Try This New Thanksgiving Side: Orange Braised Fennel Recipe
>  5 Classic Pie Recipes to Bake (Or Order!)

5 Genius Hors d’Oeuvres Ideas For Your Upcoming Party

Nail down your holiday party menus with a little help from the Anthony Leberto Catering catalog! Let me craft a menu of taste-tested and approved passed and stationary hors d’oeuvres, plus grab-and-go sweets like double chocolate coconut brownies and mini matcha green tea cheescake. Pick and choose what looks good to you!

1. Crispy Won Tons with Sesame Tuna Tar Tar
2. Lamb Meatballs with Tzatziki Sauce
3. Date, Honey & Manchego  Crostini with Balsamic Glaze
4. Vegetable Crudite with Assorted Dipping Sauces
5. Smoked Salmon & Cucumber Canapés with Lemon-Dill Mascarpone

There’s more where that came from! 

Even more hors d’oeuvres and dessert ideas to get you thinking about the perfect holiday party menu:

Thai Chicken Satay with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce
Date, Honey & Manchego Crostini with Balsamic Glaze
Salt Roasted Fingerling Potatoes, Creme Fraiche & Caviar
Shrimp “Lollypops” with Spicy Avocado-Horseradish Dipping Sauce
Endive Spears with Thyme Roasted Pear, Pecans and Salted Caramel
Smoked Salmon Crostini with Lemon Dill Mascarpone
Vietnamese Summer Rolls with Shrimp, Carrot and Daikon
Ground Pork Dumplings with Yuzu Dipping Sauce
Caprese Skewers with Grape Tomatoes, Basil and Fresh Mozzarella
Crostini with White Bean Spread & Olive Tapanade
Assorted Artisanal Cheese, Fruit & Crostini
+ dozens of homemade holiday cookies!

> See even more mouth-watering photos of past catering events
> Get inspired to host with these dinner party menus
> Order a custom holiday cookie box

Order These 5 Delicious Thanksgiving Pies

Thanksgiving dinner isn’t over til you force yourself and your guests to eat an entire plate of dessert, right? Treat your family and friends to a homemade pie– we’ll never tell them I made it!

The five flavors on the menu this year are: pumpkin, pecan, chocolate pecan, apple and apple cranberry crumble.

It’s just $25 for each 8-inch pie. Contact anthony@anthonyleberto.com to order.