Orlando catering company John and Shirley’s Catering is known for its fabulous food for any occasion and a flair for flavorful comfort food like chili.

What better competition for John and Shirley’s Catering than the Chili for Charity Cook Off Thursday, February 23 at the Winter Park Farmer’s Market. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Winter Park this is a new Winter Park. Florida, tradition.

John and Shirley’s Catering has an amazing chili recipe with spicy, full-bodied, meaty sauce and spices that will taste so good you’ll get back in line for seconds and thirds.

Chili for Charity features restaurant chefs and catering company chefs creating chili with a Winter Park attitude. Everyone’s competing for the coveted Peoples’ Choice Award and will have their dishes judged at the Winter Park Farmers’ Market.

Event proceeds benefit the Rotary Club of Winter Park Foundation, which provides grants to more than 30 local charities each year.  Over the last 20 years the club has donated more than $640,000 to charities serving the Winter Park community.

Look for John and Shirley’s Catering and be sure to get in line early. They run out of chili so get there first.

Shirley's Swamp Salsa

Shirley Stamper, maker of Shirley’s Swamp Salsa, is one half of John and Shirley’s Catering, a 15-year Orlando and Central Florida catering company. A Southern girl with a smile that lights up every room she enters, Shirley’s food speaks louder than she can laugh. Shirley’s got the gift for creating delicious food with special touches that only a hostess at heart can deliver. And deliver she does.

Shirley’s known for her fabulous comfort food. She’s got a wide range of recipes and her clients like that she can go Southern serving up light and fluffy homestyle biscuits and savory, mmmm mmmm mmmm gravy smothering some country ham, and buttery grits with a pinch of salt and pepper.

Or turn around that evening to serve an elegant wedding meal to hundreds of people who have gathered for some of Shirley’s Grilled Alaskan Salmon, with a Big Fat Greek Salad, Twice-Baked Mashed Potatoes and her ever popular Pesto Mozzarella Tomato & Olive Ball — one on every table. All her food says family, friends and a guaranteed good time.

Shirley’s Swamp Salsa is a Central Florida favorite. She whipped up the first

Buy it at The Meat House Winter Park, Florida

batch for a family barbecue and ended up canning and creating a secret recipe that her customers clamor for. Shirley created a tangy, zesty salsa with sweet onions, tomatoes, cilantro, a rich blend of black-eyed peas and black beans seasoned just so. It’s got Senorio de Ibros Olive Oil, secret spices and ingredients with a spicy and calm that pairs perfectly with almost any meal. It’s a great with guacamole and just the right side to any chicken, beef, pork, fish or seafood dish. Shirley’s Swamp Salsa. It’s got bite!

There’s some Shirley’s Swamp Salsa waiting just for you. Reach out to Shirley on Facebook, on the phone 407-679-8578, through e-mail: sstamper1@cfl.rr.com

Johnny Kabobs Dippin' Spice & Senorio de Ibros

Perfect Together
The perfect meal starts with an appetizer that is easy, light and goes well with any main dish. Try the two John and Shirley’s Catering products that work better together: Johnny Kabobs Bread Dippin’ Spice with Senorio de Ibros olive oil.

John and Shirley’s Catering created this simply by combining their famous Johnny Kabobs spices with their exclusive Spanish olive oil Senorio de Ibros. Try them together  as an appetizer.

First, select your favorite Italian, French, or whole grain bread.

Next, take a small dipping bowl and mix together a Tablespoon of  Johnny Kabobs Bread Dippin’ Spice with several ounces of Senorio de Ibros 100 percent extra virgin olive oil. Add more of each to suit the number of people served.

Tear or cut the bread into small dipping-sized pieces and place on a tray to dip into the Spice and Olive Oil. Serve with your favorite wine, cocktail, ice water or beer before any meal. Your friends and family will enjoy a light snack while you’re in the kitchen making a meal they’ll remember.

Johnny Kabobs Bread Dippin’ Spice and Senorio de Ibros 100 percent extra virgin olive oil are available only through John and Shirley’s Catering. Senorio de Ibros olive oil is available online. Check out the full line of John and Shirley’s Catering including:

Senorio de Ibros Olive Oil

Shirley’s Swamp Salsa

Johnny Kabobs Rubs & Spices
Beef Rub
Chicken Rub
Mango Line Seafood
Pork Rub
Roasted Garlic and Herb
Spicy Beef Rub

John and Shirley’s Catering. Fantastic Food for Every Occasion. Serving clients across Central Florida including Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Meyers, Gainesville, Heathrow, Kissimmee, Lake Mary, Maitland, Mount Dora, Naples, New Smyrna Beach, Ocala, Orlando, The Villages, Vero Beach, Windermere, Winter Springs and Winter Park.

Senorio de Ibros olive oil effects the taste, flavors and cooking experience for each recipe it’s used by Orlando caterer John and Shirleys Catering every time they step into the kitchen.

Whether for an appetizer with Johnny Kabobs Dipping Spice before a meal, to preparing Johnny Kabobs chicken, beef, fish or pork on the grill, to Shirley’s Swamp Salsa, their original recipes and meals begin with Senorio de Ibros olive oil.

Here’s why it’s so special: it’s quality. The olive that’s used is piqual. It’s grown on centuries old trees. Then it’s carefully harvested and cold-pressed processed to retain the natural oils, essence and rich flavors of the oil. First cold-presssed means the oil in bottles with this label is the very first oil to come out of the first press of the olive. Cold is important because if heat is used, the olive oil’s chemistry is changed. Instead, Senorio de Ibros olive oil’s chemistry remains pure and virgin–with no changes to its oil.

The result is that it’s rated because of its high grade which is described as 100 percent extra virgin olive oil. There are several grads including:

• 100% Pure Olive Oil. It sounds good but it is often the lowest quality available in the store. A better grades would be virgin.

• If it’s “Made from refined olive oil”  the taste and acidity were chemically-produced–like olive-flavoring is added.

• Light olive oil means that it is a processed and refined olive oil, NOT a low fat content. All olive oil has 120 calories per tablespoon–you can’t change this! Light means there is less natural olive oil in it.

• Hand-picked olives mean that the olive oil is better quality. Big producers harvest olives by mechanical methods where they leave olives to over-ripen so that they will fall easily from the tree when shaken by machines that allow for mass harvesting. Over ripened olives can lessen quality as olives should be hand picked to decrease the chance of bruising or of being selected before or after its prime time.

Senorio de Ibros 100 percent extra virgin olive oil is special because of the piqual olives its made of, the centuries old trees and because of its special cold-pressed processing.

At the end of the bottling process Senorio de Ibros gets a label with an oil grade included. World members of the International Olive Oil Council requires member governments to follow laws making olive oil labels conform to the IOOC standards. Here are the labels:

• Extra-virgin olive oil (sometimes called EVOO). This is the Senorio de Ibros grade.
  • Comes from the first pressing of the olives
  • Contains no more than 0.8% acidity
  • Is judged to have a superior taste
  • There can be no refined oil in extra-virgin olive oil

• Virgin olive oil
  • Has an acidity less than 2%
  • Judged to have a good taste
  • There can be no refined oil in virgin olive oil

• Pure olive oil
  • Oils labeled as Pure olive oil or Olive oil are usually a blend of refined olive oil
  • Pure olive oil is one of the above two categories of virgin olive oil

• Olive oil
  • Is a blend of virgin oil and refined oil
  • Contains no more than 1.5% acidity
  • It commonly lacks a strong flavor

• Olive-pomace oil
  • This is a blend of refined pomace olive oil and possibly some virgin oil
  • It is fit for consumption, but it may not be called olive oil
  • Olive-pomace oil is rarely found in a grocery store
  • It’s often used for certain kinds of cooking in restaurants

• Lampante oil olive oil
  • Is not used for consumption
  • Llampante comes from olive oil’s ancient use as fuel in oil-burning lamps
  • Lampante oil is mostly used in the industrial market

Anyone who’s tried John and Shirley’s world-famous Senorio de Ibros Olive Oil, Shirley’s Swamp Salsa, Johnny Kabobs Rubs & Spices, grilled chicken and healthy meals, knows that John & Shirley bring fabulous food to every occasion.

Orlando caterer John and Shirley’s Catering will bring the food and entertainment to every event and will travel throughout Central Florida.

John and Shirley’s Catering is the exclusive U.S. distributor of Senorio de Ibros, a 100 percent extra virgin olive oil. Senorio de Ibros olive oil has been selected by John and Shirley because of its exclusive flavor and cooking qualities which they’ve found useful while preparing meals for hundreds of people.

John and Shirley’s Catering serves all of Central Florida including Altamonte Springs, Boca Raton, Cape Canaveral, Clearwater, Cocoa Beach, Daytona Beach, Deland, Deltona, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Meyers, Gainesville, Heathrow, Jacksonville, Jupiter, Kissimmee, Lake Mary, Maitland, Melbourne, Miami, Mount Dora, Naples, New Smyrna Beach, Ocala, Orlando, Palm Beach, Sanford,  St. Petersburg, Tampa, The Villages, Vero Beach, Windermere, Winter Springs, as well as Brevard County, Flagler County, Lake County, Marion County, Orange County, Osceola County, Polk County, Seminole County, Sumter County and Volusia County.

Orlando catering company John and Shirley’s Catering is the exclusive distributor for Senorio de Ibros 100 percent extra virgin cold-pressed Olive Oil. Senorio de Ibros olive oil is produced in the province of Jaén Spain one of the leading olive oil producers in the world and has to be tasted to be fully appreciated.

John and Shirley invite you to contact them to arrange a tasting of this world-renown olive oil. There is a special procedure for an olive oil tasting similar to a wine tasting. It’s a unique experience to share with friends or a large group before a dinner, with a wine tasting party or a special occasion.

John and Shirley will bring Senorio de Ibros olive oil to share through a tasting with you. It’s a perfect touch to any event where wine is featured because the flavors are rich and are enhanced by the tannin in wine. That’s because olives also contain tannin.

The term tannin refers to the compounds widely found in many species of plants. The astringency from the tannins in wine cause the dry and puckery feeling in the mouth following the consumption of unripened fruit or red wine. Tannins play an important role in the ripening of fruit and the aging of wine.

The reason Senorio de Ibros olive oil tastes so special is the centuries old piqual variety olive trees that the olives come from. But the true secret to the Senorio de Ibros extra virgin olive oil is its cold-pressed production in its own mill.

Senorio de Ibros olive oil is a single variety oil without any mixture and contains only picual variety olives. Combining the latest technology and the traditional process that has been refined over thousands of years and creates a special olive oil, with intense, strong flavors that all palates will enjoy.

John and Shirley’s Catering. Fabulous Food For Every Occasion.

Bring your sweetheart to the John and Shirley’s Annual Chocolate Dippin’ Wine Sippin’ Valentine’s Day Dinner. This meal features chocolate, wine, delicious dinner, dessert and good times with great friends.

For $50 per couple and a bottle of your favorite wine you’ll tell your love story to others who are dining at John and Shirley’s to celebrate this special day. There’s melted chocolate for dipping fruits and snacks, wine pours all night and that’s before a sumptuous meal that ends with a special lovers only dessert.

There’s only a few places left at this limited seating event so contact us soon to reserve your places at our table in Winter Springs, Florida. Call 407-679-8578 as seating is first come, first served. We can’t wait to celebrate this holiday with you.

John and Shirley’s Catering. Fabulous food for every occasion.

John and Shirley’s Catering famous Shirley’s Swamp Salsa is available in Winter Park, Florida, and is being sold at the The Meat House and at Eat More Produce. The Meat House is located at 669 North Orange Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789, and at Eat More Produce Market 1111 South Orlando Avenue,  Winter Park, FL 32789.

Shirley’s Swamp Salsa is a flavorful and spicy bean and tomato salsa made with Johnny Kabobs Spices and Senorio de Ibros 100 percent extra virgin olive oil. Both of these items are available for sale on this website in our online store.

Shirley’s Swamp Salsa is a sweet and spicy bean-filled salsa with zip and ting tangy tastes. This salsa masterpiece blends black-eyed peas and black beans, Senorio de Ibros Olive Oil, cilantro, sweet tomatoes, secret spices and fresh, crispy vegetables and healthy ingredients.

Shirley’s Swamp Salsa is a perfect match for guacamole and chips. But Shirley’s Swamp Salsa is big enough to serve as a side dish for seafood, beef, fish or chicken. Shirley’s Swamp Salsa. It’s got bite!