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What We Do

Catering

Weekly Menus

Visitor Services

Entertaining?
Click here to see our menus of  appetizers, seasonal meals, barbecue fare, brunches, box lunches, and holiday specials. If nothing on the menu strikes your fancy, we can work with you to arrange exactly the menu you are looking for.

Twice a week you can select from freshly prepared entrees, side dishes, soups, and salads delivered to your home. This week’s selections are just a click away!

Visiting the Walla Walla Valley? We can take care of all your food-related needs: prepared meals; menus for dinners, parties, barbecues, and brunches; box lunches for your wine tasting tours. We can even do your grocery shopping! Click here to learn more.

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Catering

Catering

Having a party? Order hors d’ouvres or full dinners from our seasonal choices, or contact us to design a custom menu. We also have menus for barbecues and brunches, box lunches for wine touring, and special holiday menus. Click the links below to see our menus, then contact us to make all the arrangements.

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Weekly Menus

Weekly Menus

 

Tuesday's Menus

Chicken in Balsamic Vinegar
(Healthy, Gluten-Free)


Boneless, skinless chicken is poached in wine, then marinated overnight in balsamic vinegar, olive oil, sprigs of fresh tarragon, lemon zest and raisins. It is sliced and served at room temperature. Served with Yukon Gold and Herbed Potato Salad.

Ziti with Roasted Tomatoes, Golden Squash & Basil
(Vegetarian, Healthy) 


Roasting tomatoes brings out their sweetness and intensity. Tomatoes pair with wedges of farm market pattypan squash sautéed with garlic, shallot ,olive oil with white wine. The pasta is tossed with the tomatoes and squash mixture, with toasted pine nuts and parmesan cheese. Garnished with Garlic bread crumbs.

 

Thursday's Menus

Beef Kabob (Healthy)

Cubes of sirloin steak are marinated in red wine, olive oil, finely chopped onion, thyme with peppercorns. The meat is skewered and grilled (let me know if you wish to grill it yourself). Served with a refreshing tabbouleh salad of bulgur, diced cucumbers, parsley, mint, scallion, red onion, tomato, olive oil and lemon juice.

Pork Satay (Gluten-Free)

Long slices of pork tenderloin are marinated in lime juice, brown sugar, soy, garlic and lemongrass. The meat is thread on skewers and grilled. Served peanut dipping sauce with jasmine rice. 

 

Sides, Salads, and Soups

Cold Beet Soup (Healthy& Gluten-Free)

Roasted beets are pureed with garlic, olive oil, chicken broth, honey, orange juice, red wine vinegar. Garnish with horseradish sour cream and dill.

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Visitor Services

Visitor Services

What’s Cooking? Personal Chef Service can satisfy all your culinary needs while you visit the Walla Walla Valley.

Our Services Include

Prepared Meals

Dinner Parties

Party Appetizers

Picnics & Box Lunches

Kitchen Stocking & Grocery Shopping  

You can order from our standard weekly menus, or call us to have a fresh meal waiting when you arrive in town. If you are having a dinner party or a casual gathering, we can prepare everything from appetizers to full mutli-course meals. We can stock the kitchen in your guest rental and have a fresh meal waiting for you when you arrive. Going wine tasting or sight-seeing in the countryside? We can provide picnic baskets or box lunches. 

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Who We Are

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What’s Cooking? is a personal chef service serving the Walla Walla Valley in Washington State. Owner Chef Colleen Farnham left a career in education and training & development to pursue her passion for cooking. She attended the Western Culinary Institute (now Le Cordon Bleu) in Portland, OR, where she graduated with honors. After graduation, Colleen started What's Cooking? in Portland as service for families and individuals who were too busy to prepare home cooked meals. Colleen’s most rewarding culinary experiences were as a chef-instructor for Operation Frontline, where she taught cooking and nutrition classes for low-income families. She volunteered for six years and was recognized at the 2005 Share Our Strength conference as one of ten national recipe winners. Colleen moved to Walla Walla in 2007 with her husband, four dogs, and horse. After working at several local wineries, she restarted What’s Cooking? in 2010 and thoroughly enjoys cooking for her friends, neighbors, and visitors to the Valley.