The cooks make a very wide variety of cuisines. The only limitations, because food is served at the Temple, is no pork and no shellfish. Note that we are NOT strictly kosher (the Temple Micah kitchen is not kashered) and we can serve dairy and meat at the same meal.

Temple Micah Cooks Buffet Favorites:

Vegetables:

• Black bean dip with tostados
• Black bean pate with baby carrots or endive spoons
• Crudites with dips (garlic cheese, pesto, curry, etc)
• Eggplant caviar on cucumber rounds or endive spoons
• Mufalletta (olive salad) with provolone on Italian bread
• Orange ginger carrots
• Pita bread with humus or babaganough or mini pita bread sandwiches with cucumbers
• Raspberry beets
• Roasted and marianated green beans

Salads:

• Black bean salad with red peppers and cilantro
• Bulgur, lentil, chard salad with currents and pine nuts
• Couscous with dried fruits and nuts
• Caesar salad
• Larb chicken salad
• Orzo salad with feta cheese
• Salad Nicoise
• Tabbouleh salad with endive spoons
• Tuna white bean salad

Dairy:

• Cheese platters with olives, dried and/or fresh fruit and crackers
• Kugels (veggie or sweet)
• Mini quiches
• Rosemary fig confit with brie on french bread rounds
• Quesidillas
• Umbrian pizza

Poultry/meat:

• Chopped liver on challah slices
• Marinated and grilled chicken skewers or chicken satay
• Marinated flank steak on skewers
• Smoked turkey, cranberry relish on sweet potato biscuits
• Pates

Fish:

• Gravlox with mustard sauce on black bread
• Miniature bagels with whitefish salad, salmon mousse, or lox-cream cheese spread
• Seviche
• Smoked trout on endive or english cucumber rounds
• Smoked salmon and herb cheese spread on "Marvelous Market" breads

Desserts:

• Apple torte
• Biscotti
• Chocolate mint chip cookies
• Lemon squares
• Mexican wedding cakes
• Oatmeal cranberry coconut cookies
• Raspberry hazelnut brownies
• Studel

Pricing: Please email TM Cooks Coordinator. The price for catering by Temple Micah Cooks varies depending upon the menu and services. A portion of the cost of the event will be tax-deductible as a donation to Temple Micah--the TM Cooks Coordinator will indicate that portion that exceeds the "market value" and that is tax deductible. However, the portion that represents the market value is NOT deductible.

Zachary S's Bar Mitzvah (Saturday, March 17, 2001)

[220 adults; 50 children]

Challah in Sanctuary

Buffet tables in social hall:

Tabbouleh Salad with Endive Spoons

Black Bean Pate on English Cucumber Rounds

Mini Pita Bread Sandwiches with Humus and Parsley, Babaganough or eggplant caviar and cilantro

Spinach Kugel and Portobello Mushroom Kugels

Sweet Potato Biscuits with Smoked Turkey and Cranberry Relish

Smoked Salmon and Herb Cheese Spread on Mini Black Bread

Whitefish Salad on "Marvelous Market" Breads

Buffet for the under 13 crowd - in a tent:

Quesidillas

Umbrian Pizza

Bagel Dogs

Salsa and Tostado Chips

Baby Carrots with Humus

Sourdough Pretzel Baskets

Assorted Chip Cookies

Sprite, Coke and Diet Coke

Dessert buffet table:

Fresh Strawberries, Whipped Cream and Chocolate Sauce

Assorted Home Baked Goodies: Brownies, Lemon Squares, Peanut Butter Bars, Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies, Strudel, etc.

Coffee, Decaf, Tea, Fizzy Water, White Wine, Sprite, Coke and Diet Coke

Saturday informal non-meat luncheon (for 80)

Chilled Gazpacho

Buffet tables:

Assorted Bagels, Pita Bread, and Challah with Vegetable Cream Cheese

Salmon Mousse

Smoked Whitefish Salad

Tabbouleh

Eggplant Caviar

Cucumber Salad

Raspberry Beets

Roasted Green Beans

Dessert table:

Assorted Homemade Cookies

Fresh Strawberries with Whipped Cream

Beverages: Lemonade, Iced Tea, Wines; Decaf and Regular Coffee

Jake S's Bar Mitzvah (October 23, 1999) [150 people]

Chilled Gazpacho

To Be Passed: 'Pigs in the Blanket' & Lox and Mini Bagels

On Buffet Tables:

Chicken Salad

Caesar Salad

Couscous with Feta Cheese & Cucumbers

Roasted Green Beans with Pine Nuts

Marvelous Market Olive Bread

Dessert Buffet:

Fruit Kabobs with Strawberries, Melons, Pineapples etc.

Assorted Brownies, Blondes, Lemon Squares and Toffee Bars

Beverages: Fruit Spritzers, Regular and Decaf Coffee, & Wine

Meryl T's Bat Mitzvah (June 12, 1999) [185 people]

Chilled Gazpacho

On Buffet Tables:

Assorted Bagels with Plain, Veggie & Salmon Lite Cream Cheeses

Platters of Onions, Tomatoes and Cucumbers

Poached Salmon and Dill Sauce

Noodle Kugels

Mixed Green Salad

Cold Marinated Green Bean Salad with Pine Nuts

Dessert Buffet:

Fruit Kabobs with Strawberries, Melons, Pineapples etc.

Assorted Brownies, Blondes, Lemon Squares and Toffee Bars

Beverages: Cranberry Spritzer, Iced Tea, Regular and Decaf Coffee, & Wine

Stacey & Miro's Engagement Party

Hors d'oeuvres:

Brie, pruchetto & fig confit on French bread

Trout on endive and English cucumbers

Crudites & dip

Spinach dip in round bread

Pate & crackers

Buffet Table:

Cold poached salmon with dill sauce

Rice & artichoke salad

Roasted marinated green beens

Tossed green salad with mushrooms

Marvelous Market breads

Desserts:

Engagement cake

Fresh strawberries

Beverages: Assorted Sodas, Sparkling Water, Beer, Wine

Wedding (June 11, 2000) [180 people]

On Dinner Tables:

Tamimi (Italian cheese in tomato dip)

Stuffed Grape Leaves

Feta Cheese

Olives

Marinated Mushrooms

Bagettes

On Buffet Tables:

Chicken with Preserved Lemon and Olives

Tagine of Lamb

Couscous with Pine Nuts and Dried Fruit

Orzo with Herbs

Moroccan Carrots

Mescalin Salad with Pears, Blue Cheese, Pistachios, Raspberries (with a Raspberry Vinaigrette)

Dessert Buffet:

Filled Canolis (plain and chocolate)

Chocolate-raspberry mousse

Assorted Fresh Fruits and Chocolate Sauce

Beverages: Sparkling water, iced mint tea, regular and decaf coffee, wine

Janice and Mike's Wedding (March 17, 2002) [75-150 guests]

Mini Brie with French Bread and Fig Confit

Assorted Tea Sandwiches: English Cucumber & Cilantro Cream Cheese, Curried Egg Salad and Tarragon Chicken Salad on Marvelous Market Breads

Endive with Goat Cheese and Walnuts

Assorted Olives with Rosemary and Lemon

Wedding Cake - Janice

Chocolate Mint Chip Cookies and Brownies

Large Stemmed Strawberries

Assorted Nuts

Champagne Punch and Pink Lemonade

To use the services of the cooks and obtain price(s), please contact the TM Cooks Coordinator.