The menu was as follows:
- Deviled eggs - first time we'd tried this one. came out mmmmm
- Spinach and onion dip and many veggies
- Potato chips - didn't even get the crazy Chinese flavors, but stuck with classics and BBQ flavor and Sour Cream and Onion in honor of this fine holiday
- Vegetarian stew and wheat bread - What, you didn’t see this at your picnic?
- Buffalo wings with blue cheese dressing - more on this later
- Greek salad - so maybe not so American, but tastes really good
- Lemon pie - Thank you Sarah!
- Chocolate no bake cookies
- Watermelon
- And beer of course
Another fun new item was the chicken wings. One of our guests informed us that he has tried most of the wings available in Beijing and they are pretty uniformly bad. Today though, he was finally satisfied. I thought Michael was overestimating when he recommended we get about 90 wings for 6 adults, but since we only have about 20 left, and that's with serving the wings after all the other non-dessert food was served. If you want to try to make them, check out this site at Recipe Zaar.
Only thing we were missing was fire works which is sort of surprising considering how easy they are to get most of time.
Hope everyone in the US is enjoying the holiday!
3 comments:
That all sounds wonderful. It's weird though to read about how you spent a day I'm just starting. My festivities are expected to include food, frisbees, friends, juggling with and without fire, and some rather lame fireworks, all to take place on a cold and windy beach just barely this side of the Pacific.
Thought of you as I watched them here. They did a nice little set to some cartoon tunes from our day. So Scooby Doo, the flintstones and the muppet show theme song have now been stuck in my head for 2 days!
Thought Mao was like hot dogs, didn't realize it had real things in it, thought it was just like goop from a Mao tree or something,, now I'm worried.
A blender or food processor works even better for mayo .. for next year. ;)
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