http://www.afehouston.com/blog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:03:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Breakfast. Critics agree it is the single most important meal of the day. This means you should pay it special attention by carefully selecting your breakfast items and then incorporating them in your AM and PM menus! A Fare Extraordinaire likes to provide breakfast buffets with enough scope to appease everyone at the table. ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/breakfast-its-whats-for-dinner My avid followers may have noticed the MIA Friday afternoon blog post. Well let's just say it was a whirlwind wedding weekend! Imagine it's Friday afternoon at 5:30 pm. Here in Houston, A Fare Extraordinaire is a buzz confirming and re-confirming the details of Saturday night's 550+ person wedding at the Museum of Fine Arts. With passed hors d' oeuvres and FOUR ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/whirlwind-wedding-weekend When you hear "everything but the kitchen sink" in the culinary world, your first instincts are to picture a really decadent paella or a rich and spicy mole sauce. Surprisingly, that's not what I'm referring to today. I'm talking SALAD! Loading up your healthy greens with fresh exotic fruit, spiced or sugared nuts, rare cheeses and an ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/everything-but-the-kitchen-sink Beer and Wine. These are staples for a successful party. Unless your party ends before 4pm, it is customary (and polite) to have alcoholic beverages on hand for your guests. Open Bar. This is where things get a bit stickier... WE like to provide full open bars (mostly due to the fact that we ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/signature-drinks I appreciate flowers in their many forms. There's beauty in the simplicity of a small, monocromatic arrangement used to accent a seating table. Or in an over the top, floral light fixture that brighten an entire room! Here's a flower, though, that everyone can appreciate...the "Corpse" Flower. The Corpse Flower is the largest, rarest (and ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/flowers-big-and-small With all this dreary Houston rain we've been experiencing, it's about time it clears long enough for a rainbow to take form. Allow AFE to help along the process! Red...Tuna Sashimi! Orange...Carmelized Figs! Yellow...Chocolate Drizzled Plantains!                                   Green...Smoked Duck Crepes!                                     Blue...Custom Cookies! Purple...Raspberry Gelato!                               http://www.afehouston.com/blog/rain-to-rainbow Want a wedding space that is as artistically expressive as you are? At A Fare Extraordinaire we've noticed an influx in the number of weddings taking place in unconventional spaces, art galleries being the most popular. Hmm, a creative space for us to transform into a beautiful wedding ceremony? You know we love ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/artistic-expressions Our goal at this party was to wait for guests to recover from the initial shock of our extravagant decor, then further overload their senses with aromas of our remarkable fare! Here's how we did it... We circulated the room with scrumptious hors d’ oeuvres. Tempura battered squash blossoms filled with herbed goat cheese (below), tamarind glazed ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/not-your-average-house-party-part-2 Deep fuchsia lighting, sleek modern furniture, worldly tunes and pops of exotic flowers. This is what transformed our clients home into a swanky club for a fabulous, one-night-only, kick-off-to-summer event! I could HARDLY wait to get my hands on Amy Vogel's professional photographs. Well, the time has finally come. Welcome to the party! The ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/not-your-average-house-party Need some impressive small talk for your next dinner party? Allow me to help. Did you know Texas is one the oldest wine growing states in the United States? Neither did I until I took a nice little trip to Fredericksburg this weekend… call it a business trip, if you will, with ... http://www.afehouston.com/blog/texas-wine