Cooking with Mike
Entrees
Entrees come with 2 sides, but you can order anything A LA Carte for an extra charge. Tex Mex , Italian, and Asian Entrees come with their own sides. Anything can be customized to suit your taste.
Tex Mex Specialties
I generally make these spicy, but can tone down the spice on request. They come with their own sides that are listed.
Award winning Texas Chili
Ground beef, 3 beans, steak, onions, peppers,tomatoes, in a spicy tomato broth. Comes with shredded cheese, jalapenos, sour cream, crackers and Fritos to accompany it. Also comes with homemade cornbread, The spiciness can be adjusted by request.
Taco Bar- Everyone's favorite
Everything to make a taco, soft and hard shell tortillas, seasoned ground beef, refried beans, shredded cheese, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, black olives, fresh salsa with chips, fresh guacamole.
Fajita Bar
Steak,chicken, or shrimp or all three sauteed with peppers and onions. Flour tortillas, shredded cheese, lettuce, pico de gallo, sour cream, fresh guacamole, fresh salsa with chips.
Mexican Birria Tacos
slow cooked beef roast and pork roast cooked with chili's and spices, shredded, and served with flour tortillas, sour cream, refried beans, pico de Gallo, fresh salsa with chips
Dora's Chicken Enchiladas
Dora's mom's Mexican recipe, tender shredded chicken, cheese, green chili's, wrapped in a flour tortilla with a sour cream verde sauce, covered in melted cheese. Comes with mexican spiced pinto beans, sour cream, fresh salsa, chips.
Classics
Comfort foods for everyone. Add two sides from the sides menu.
Mini Chicken Pot Pies
Muffin size pies with tender chicken, and veggies in a creamy sauce inside a flaky pie shell.
Chili dog and Brat bar
Chili dogs and brats with all the fixings. Buns, Chili with or without beans, shredded cheese, fresh chopped onions, pickle relish, pico de gallo, ketchup, mustard, sauerkraut, hot peppers.
Spiral Ham
Spiral sliced ham baked with a honey glaze. My mom's special honey mustard sauce on the side.
Chicken and Stuffing Casserole
Sausage can be substituted instead of chicken for a delicious option. Tender Chicken diced with bread stuffing, zucchini and yellow squash, carrots slices and spices.
Chicken A La King
Tender chicken chunks and veggies with egg noodles in a creamy white sauce.
Sloppy Joes
Ground beef in a tangy tomato sauce, served with buns, pickle slices, and cheese slices on the side.
Shepherds Pie
Flavorful ground beef in a rich gravy mixed with veggies topped with homemade mashed potatoes and melted cheese.
Italian specialties
These come with the Fresh salad garden bar and fresh toasted garlic bread.
Classic Lasagna
Layers of noodles, rich homemade beef marinara sauce, cheeses.
Chicken Marsala
Chicken tenderloins with sauteed Portabello mushrooms in a savory Marsala wine gravy. Served with egg noodles.
Penne pasta with Italian herbed chicken in a pesto sauce.
Penne pasta in a garlic homemade pesto sauce mixed with grilled herbed chicken chunks.
Zuppa Toscana
A flavorful soup with Italian sausage slices, potatoes, sweet peppers, garlic, kale, in a cream broth. Think Olive Garden's but that is actually chunky, not all broth.
Spaghetti with marinara meat sauce
Classic spaghetti noodles with my homemade marinara sauce with meat. It's flavourful and rich. Served with parmesan cheese on the side.
BBQ
Finger licking good. Add two sides from the sides menu.
Pulled Pork
Slow roasted shredded pork cooked with BBQ dry rub. Buns supplied. 2 homemade BBQ sauces come with it. One is a zesty tomato base, thick and tasty, almost a BBQ salsa. The other is a Gold and Tangy, A Carolina inspired hot and spicy sauce.
BBQ ribs
Slow cooked fall off the bone pork ribs covered in a rich glaze.
Kabobs
Chicken or shrimp interspersed with assorted veggies on a wooden skewer, and grilled.
Flavors include; BBQ, Hawaiian, or Mediterranean Garlic.
Alice Springs chicken
Chicken breast, grilled with BBQ spices, finished with BBQ sauce, bacon strip, melted cheddar cheese and topped with cilantro. Outback knock off.
Asian Specialties
Classic Asian dishes where the spiciness can be adjusted to suit your taste. Served with hot and sour soup, and your choice of white rice or fried rice or both.
Red Curry Thai chicken
Tender chicken chunks with sweet and hot peppers, onion, carrot slivers, mushrooms, and cilantro in a red curry spicy sauce.
Fried rice with meat of your choice
Upgraded Zesty fried rice with garlic, onions, carrots, peas, peppers with your choice of tender seasoned chicken, summer sausage, or seasoned shrimp. Rice is already in it, but does come with the hot and sour soup.
Pad Thai
A favorite, tender chicken chunks stir fried onion, garlic, carrot slivers, peppers, bean sprouts, flat rice noodles with chopped peanuts in a classic pad thai sauce. Topped with chopped green onions. Very tasty!
Stir fry with sweet peanut sauce
Your choice of meat, beef, chicken or shrimp stir fried with onions, peppers, garlic, bean sprouts, carrot slivers in a zesty sweet peanut sauce. Topped with fresh cilantro and chopped peanuts.
Egg roll bowl
Spicy ground beef sauteed with garlic, onions, peppers, cabbage slivers, carrot slivers, broccoli and scrambled eggs. Seasoned with chinese 5 spice.
Side dishes
Add two to your main Entrees, or add more A La Carte. They're all yummy.
Texas Potato Salad
Potatoes, mayo and mustard base with hard boiled eggs and a light touch of onions, pickles, and spices. Everyone's favorite.
Rainbow salad
It's becoming more popular than my potato salad. Small ring pasta with mayo, onions, grapes, mandarin oranges, ham or turkey chunks, slivered almonds. Very flavorful and delicious.
Salad bar with assorted greens and veggies.
Spring mix and iceberg lettuces, cabbage and a wide assortment of veggies such as cucumbers, carrots, sweet bell peppers, celery, grape tomatoes, broccoli, black olives that you add yourself. Comes with Ranch and Italian dressing.
Baked beans
My mom's recipe. Homemade navy beans in a rich sweet tomato base with crumbled bacon. Ground pork sausage can be added for a hearty stand alone side on request.
Fruit salad
A large assortment of melons, strawberrys, grapes, apples, kiwi mixed together. Seasonal availability may affect choices. By request choices may be ommited, added or on the side.
Au Gratin Potatoes
Thin slices of potatoes piled high in a smooth creamy cheesy sauce. Ham can be added for a hearty entree option by request.
Tex Mex beans
Homemade pinto beans in a spicy tomato sauce with onions, peppers, tomatoes and spices. Heat can be adusted by request from spicy hot to mild.
Garlic bread
Sliced french bread with real butter, garlic and parsley toasted. Or we can do an assortment of sliced breads such as rye, sourdough, french, cottage, with the butter, garlic, and parsley toasted.
Homemade cornbread
Simple but tasty soft, golden cornbread. Jalapenos can be baked in for an option with a kick.
Breakfast
They come with a fresh fruit salad, juice, and muffins
Breakfast casserole
Eggs with either ham or sausage, chilis, cheeses, topped with hash browns and more cheese.
Quiche
A yummy egg and cheese pie. Options to add include ham, sausage, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms, onions, bell peppers, jalapenos.
Mini crustless quiches
Muffin sized friattas. Broccoli and ham, sausage and mushroom, ham and spinach, or peppers and chilis.
Biscuits and Gravy
Soft flaky biscuits with a homemade sausage and black pepper creamy gravy. Biscuits are separate on the side.
Scrambled eggs
Soft, fluffy real eggs, that can be customized with any of onions, peppers, sausage, ham, bacon, spinach, mixed in or cheddar cheese on top. Choose a meat to accompany it, Sausage links or bacon strips.
Desserts
Scrumpidilicious. Say no more.
Texas Sheet cake
Chocolate brownie like pan cake with a chocolate glaze on top.
Chocolate chip cookies
Classic cookies, soft and gooey.
Monster cookies
Large soft cookies with peanut butter, chocolate chips, m&m's, nuts, oats.
Granny's lemonade pie
A tart sweet lemon pie on graham cracker crust
Chocolate brownies
Rich and soft moist chocolate brownies.
Appetizers
Kick off your meeting or meal with these delectable bites.
BBQ smokies
Little smokies wrapped in bacon and drizzled in brown sugar and BBQ sauce
Mini pigs in a blanket
Little sausages wrapped in cheese and pastry dough baked to a golden brown.
Nacho scooper
Tostito scoops filled with seasoned taco meat, pico, and topped with melted cheese.
Sliders
Mini Big Macs on a Kings Hawaiian bun
Charcuterie
An assortment of sliced meats, cheeses, and crackers
Low Carb Options
Many of the offerings tweeked to be a low carb option.
Chef's Salad bar
The salad bar plus cubed meat and cheese options.
Taco bar low carb
Everything on the taco bar except the hard shells and chips and tortillas swapped out for low carb tortillas and extra lettuce for taco salad.
Pulled pork with low carb sauces
My pulled pork with my homemade sauces tweeked with swerve instead of sugar.
Kabobs
The BBQ or Lemon Pepper Kabobs marinated with no sugar in the marinade. Chicken or shrimp.
Fajita Bar low carb
My Fajita Bar with the tortillas swapped out with low carb tortillas and extra lettuce for fajita salads.
Award winning chili low carb
My chili with no beans.
Mini crustless quiches
Muffin sized friattas. Broccoli and ham, sausage and mushroom, ham and spinach, or peppers and chilis.
Egg roll bowl
Spicy ground beef sauteed with garlic, onions, peppers, cabbage slivers, carrot slivers, broccoli and scrambled eggs. Seasoned with chinese 5 spice. Extra veggies added, does not come with rice.