Earth Fire and Light Gala showcases the best caterers in KW

Chef Kelvin and Victoria donated their time on Saturday March 19, 2011 to the Earth Fire and Light Gala at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo, to provide hors d'oeuvres for the fundraiser. Along with the top caterers and restaurants from the Kitchener-Waterloo area, we created a themed selection of one-bite canapes - our selection included mini tacos filled with a Thai chicken salad, sesame cones with brunoise vegetables in a sesame dressing, and French macarons in four tempting flavours.

French macaron mass production

Our kitchen has been busy creating rows and rows of delicate little French macarons for an upcoming fundraiser event, the Earth Fire and Light Gala at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. These crisp cookies gave us some trouble in the beginning, the cookies you see here were our fourth attempt to nail down the recipe.

We had a lot of fun mixing and matching flavours and colours with these cookies. They are great to coordinate with a party theme or colours, or even your favourite flavours. We chose peach and raspberry filling (pink cookies), saffron with chocolate ganache (yellow cookie), cassis with cassis jam (violet cookies), and almond with amaretto filling (green cookies). We used a meringue-based buttercream icing for the filling on our cookies, with offers a rich creamy centre for the melt-in-your-mouth cookies.

Jess and Mark's wedding tasting

Jessica and Mark and their family sat down with us on March 12 for a tasting of their wedding meal. Last year, we catered their country-themed engagement party at their family home. Their wedding is coming up on July 9, 2011, and we brought the experience of the buffet and stations planned for the wedding into our tasting.

The tasting menu, featuring only a handful of the many items to be featured over three days for their rehearsal, wedding reception, and brunch, including passed canapes, a market station style buffet, and finger dessert selection


A table set for six in the Hungry Olive shop. We brought in flowers, vases, and other decorative details that time into the country-chic theme of the farm wedding


The buffet station table, before we filled the dishes. At the wedding, guests will wander between four different stations over a longer dinner time, allowing for a much more relaxed wedding meal. Our tasting menu included the salad station, and the meat and pasta station. Chef Kelvin tossed the pasta to order with guests' choice of add-ins


For the July wedding, the bride and groom wanted to bring a touch of their personality to the drink selection. The bar will feature a selection of 5 fruity and refreshing mocktails with candy garnishes. To give them a taste of what's to come, we offered the Next Generation Ginger Soda and Virgin Bellini along with the tasting meal


The bar was set up in the Hungry Olive shop, to give our guests a sense of what their guests will experience at the wedding

The Hungry Olive is now on Twitter

You can now follow the Hungry Olive on Twitter for daily updates about our hot lunch special and soup of the day. The Hungry Olive is our storefront take-out shop located in the Cambridge Business Park area of Cambridge. Updates about the happenings with Select Service will sneak in now and then, follow us! @HungryOlive

Select Service to participate in More Than Just Desserts on March 24

Select Service has signed on to participate in the More Than Just Desserts fundraiser evening to benefit the Arthritis Society of Kitchener Waterloo. This is the second time Select will be present at this event, and we will be serving up hors d'oeuvres and bite-sized desserts alongside some of the best restaurants and bakeries in the area. For this year's event, Chef Kelvin has created a Breakfast at Tiffany's themed selection of savoury and sweet items - you don't want to miss it!

The event is being held this year on Thursday March 24th, at Bingemans in Kitchener. Doors open at 5:30pm, and the event starts at 6:00pm.

We hope to see you there!

The Hungry Olive gets dressed up for the holiday season!

The Hungry Olive is getting ready for the holiday season with jars and bags of your favourite items to take home. All of our jellies, jams, chutneys, and rubs are made in-house, and we offer only freshly roasted whole bean coffee from the Waterloo Coffee Company. We use many of the jams and jellies in our deli sandwiches or as spreads and dips for our signature canapes.

Items coming soon:

Spice and seasoning mixes
Grilling rubs and marinades
Wine jelly
Traditional Christmas cake
Themed gift baskets - coffee, culinary, and barbecue

Stop by the Hungry Olive at 35 Cherry Blossom Road in Cambridge to see our selection.

Souper Sampler in Cambridge

On Saturday October 23, 2010, Select Service participated in the Mayor's Souper Sampler to benefit Meals on Wheels. Chef Kelvin prepared our signature smoked corn chowder, which won an honourable mention from the panel of judges. Thanks to the great support from the people of Cambridge, Souper Sampler raised almost $8,000 in support of Meals and Wheels and More.

See the article the Cambridge Times wrote about this event here
Pictured in the article picture are Victoria and Kelvin from Select Service, ladling out soup to guests.