Healthy & delicious finger foods
Antipasto Platter with olives, meats and cheeses
Fresh fruit and dessert platter
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Catering at our place or yours….
06/11/2011 by Perdita
We love putting together a catering menu for your function, party and get together. Why do we love it? Because every party is different and unique! The Pickled Pelican love to make up new and exciting finger foods, meals and specialty cakes and desserts to your specifications. Here are a couple of our recent platters made up for a local Portland function.Above is a gourmet sandwich platter with tuscan chicken, bacon, spinach + mustard aoli baguettes, salmon cucumber + dill triple decker sandwiches, egg + lettuce on olive sour dough, turkey cranberry + camembert wraps, honey ham, double smoked cheddar + house made relishwraps. Below is an antipasto platter with roasted vegetables, smoked duck, rainbow olives, oak smoked salmon + cured meats with relish, cheeses + crusty bread + crackers.
We can do scrumptious decadent desserts or healthy, juicy fresh dessert platters, your choice! Below is a fruit platter with marshmallow kababs, chocolate fudge dipping sauce + white choc0late + coconut coated Portland strawberries.
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Gluten Free meals available every day
15/10/2011 by Perdita
Do you have problems getting gluten free food? At the Pickled Pelican, we make and stock a large range of gluten free food, both main meals and snacks.Just to give you an idea, here are some of our recent meals that have been gluten free: Chicken, mushroom + pumpkin stack served with roasted capsicum puree, balsamic glaze + salad Salmon, caper + Meredith Valley goats cheese aracini ball served with salad Tuscan chicken, cashew + roasted pumpkin aracini ball Roasted vegetable frittata with basil infused oil + balsamic glaze + salad Spicy tomato, bacon + basil soup with gluten free bread Amazing antipasto platters with roasted vegetables, pesto, cured meats, yoghurt cheese, goats cheese + so much more… Lamb + sweet potato rice balls with garlic yoghurt + salad
Pickled Pelican Antipasto Platter
And of course we have a large range of gluten free sweet treats for you to enjoy, such as: White chocolate Florentines (very popular) A large chocolate fudge range All of our house made individual chocolates are gluten free Raspberry + vanilla bean coconut ice Orange + almond cake with chocolate ganache + preserved oranges Sticky lime sherbet + coconut cake Chef Katy is always adding new gluten free meals and desserts to our range. Just ask our friendly staff what is available when you visit, they will be happy to show you our large range of gluten free food.
Choc-Orange chocolates - made in house
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Roasted Vegetable Strudel
08/10/2011 by Perdita
This week’s hot meal at the Pickled Pelican has been the Roasted Vegetable Strudel with Basil Pesto and Fetta.Couldn’t make it in to try it? Chef Katy shares her recipe with you so you can try it at home. This recipe is extremely easy to make, and is delicious when served with a salad. Ingredients required: Roasted vegetables of your choice – Chef Katy uses chargrilled capsicum, eggplant + zucchini Basil pesto Fetta cheese Sundried tomatoes Ready made puff pastry sheets 1 egg, beaten, to brush
Roasted Vegetable Strudel with a Salad
How to make it: Set your oven to 180 degrees. Place a sheet of pastry on greaseproof paper on an oven tray. Layer the middle of your pastry with pesto, roasted vegetables, fetta and your sundried tomatoes.Roll your pastry over to make a log shape and seal. Brush the top of your strudel with egg, put a couple of cuts across the top for decoration, and bake till golden brown …..
Here you can see the layers being built in the middle of the pastry.
Cut into serves and serve with a delicious salad. Ta da!! quick, easy and tasty. Let us know if you tried this recipe, we’d love to know how it turned out!
Strudel just out of the oven
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Famous people drink our coffee!
30/08/2011 by Perdita
Yes, you too can drink our famous Dimattina coffee any day of the week! Mick Gatto enjoys it and so can you.
Mick Gatto enjoys Dimattina Coffee
We found this recent article by the Herald Sun featuring the above photo of Mick Gatto enjoying Dimattina Coffee – the article was headed “Julia Gillard, match my $10k: Mick Gatto” and you can read more about it here.
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Whales in Portland
29/06/2011 by Perdita
Did you know you can sign up to Whalemail? If you are interested in Whales or want to know about the latest sightings, there is a great website you can sign up to which will keep you up to date with the latest sightings. Have a look at www.whalemail.com.au which has the latest whale sightings in Portland. There is also a gallery of some of the sightings, absolutely amazing pictures.This week, there has been sighted two Southern Right Whales about 500 metres offshore from the water tower. It’s always exciting to hear of or see whales visiting the Bay.
Whalemail lets you know the best places in Winter to catch a glimpse of any visiting whales, around the Portland and Cape Bridgewater area.
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Pelican Switcheroo!
23/06/2011 by Perdita
Friday things will look a little strange in Portland! If you head into your local Westpac Bank, you may be a little surprised to find the local Westpac staff wearing a Pickled Pelican Apron! Head up to visit us here at the Pelican, and you will catch our staff wearing the bright red Westpac baseball caps!
Westpac local bank manager, Shaun, is very supportive of local Portland businesses, and was only too happy to help promote new business in the town by becoming honorary Pickled Pelican members for the day. It’s not often you will see your local bank manager and his staff wearing aprons to work, so head in and say hello to the helpful staff at your local branch, and then drop over to the Pickled Pelican for a coffee and say hello to Katy and the team.
It is also Red Nose Day tomorrow, and you may catch a glimpse of some of our Pelicans in the cafe with their cute little red noses!Category Pelican News | Tags: | No Comments
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First Week in Business!
20/06/2011 by Perdita
Hellooooo Portland!
Well our first week in business has been hectic to say the least! We weren’t quite ready to open, but jumped in the deep end and it has certainly been a huge learning curve. We have some absolutely wonderful staff now working for us, and I hope you all drop in to say hello.
Our coffee and hot chocolates have certainly been a hit, understandably as we are offering the freshest coffee in Portland, roasted and ground on demand. Our rain water tanks from WaterStore Poly Tanks have gone in, and we are now using pure fresh rainwater for all our coffees and drinks, filtered twice for that extra purity.
The biscuits have certainly been popular, passionfruit yoyo’s dipped in white chocolate, and espresso pinwheels to mention a few. And the luscious vanilla slices and cheesecakes have been much appreciated.
Chef Katy is mixing up the menu at the moment, so there is always something new and different available to eat in the Pickled Pelican.
Thank you for your support, people of Portland, we have had a blast this week. Thank you for bearing with us as we learn the ropes and find our feet.
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Pickled Pelican has a mini opening!
09/06/2011 by Perdita
The Pickled Pelican had an exciting day today with a mini opening! We were planning to open on Tuesday but had the excitement on Monday of having our air conditioner catch fire due to a power surge. Unfortunately this caused a bit of damage to the cafe, which meant we had to put off our opening for another few days.But the next door car yard were having their big day today, so we had a mini opening and offered coffee and cake. We had about 60 lovely visitors to our cafe and served up many cups of our excellent gourmet coffees and luscious housemade biscuits!
We enjoyed ourselves immensely and that everyone who visited us today. We are now looking forward to our “real” opening in a couple of days, and we hope to see you there.
The Pickled Pelican Team!
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Power surge hits the Pelican!
06/06/2011 by Perdita
Only a day before our scheduled opening day, a power surge hit the Pickled Pelican, setting alight our air conditioner and resulting in about $5000 damage to equipment in the cafe.
Luckily people were on site at the time, when the fluroescent lights started blinking, the fridge made strange noises and the doorbell rang continuously. An electrician on site at the time detected the power surge, and then the air conditioner caught fire. Luckily the Portland Urban Fire Brigade were not far away. Two trucks and seven firefighters turned up to help, but by that time the fire had been extinguished. All equipment was turned off until Powercor were able to visit and check what had caused the power surge.
We would like to extend our thanks to the tradesmen who were in the cafe at the time, and the valiant Firefighters who turned up to help us, it was much appreciated!
We were planning on opening the Pickled Pelican Cafe tomorrow, but unfortunately we will need to put this off for a couple more days while we recover from the damage.
Here is a copy of the article the Portland Observer ran about our excitement. pickled-pelican-fire-in-airconditioner-newspaper-article
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