Event Catering for the Tampa Bay Wine and Food Festival (Click for Photos)

Just recently, we were hired by a large olive oil company to develop custom menus and prepare food for their booths at the Tampa Bay Wine and Food Festival, held at the Don Cesar.  We came up with six unique dishes, each of them using a different type of olive oil.

One of the most popular of the dishes was our Caprese Salad, skewered on a pipette filled with Extra Virgin Olive Oil.  When the guest eats the salad, they simultaneously squeeze the pipette of olive oil into their mouth.

It created quite a buzz and we’ve already begun to use them for our Caprese Salad Skewers and we’re secretly developing some other great dishes.  Here’s the complete menu followed by photos (or see our complete event photos here):

Caprese Salad on a Skewer
Olive oil marinated baby mozzarella and grape tomato skewered on a pipette containing basil infused Bertolli Extra Virgin

Creamy Polenta with Spicy Italian Sausage and Roasted Red Pepper
Sautéed in Bertolli Classico olive oil

Olive Oil Cake Squares
with lemon glaze
made with Bertolli Extra Light Tasting olive oil

Gamberetti all’ Olio e Limone
(Poached shrimp with olive oil and lemon juice)
Featuring Carapelli Il Numerato

Cannelini (white) Bean Puree
Piped onto a fresh toast crisp with olive oil drizzle and cherry tomato wedge
Featuring Carapelli Premium Extra Virgin olive oil

Panzanella
(Tuscan Bread Salad)
A Tuscan summer salad including bread, ripe fresh organic tomatoes and cucumber tossed in a vinaigrette made with Carapelli Organic Olive Oil