Pass The Sushi!

So last week I threw my annual back­yard get bash where I invite peo­ple from the comic book store, DND and a few other walks of my life to get together and chill. It usu­ally rocks but this year had more stress involved then pre­vi­ous years. There were about 40 peo­ple expected and I decided to make every­thing by hand. Not only did I want to pre­pare every minute detail, but I also wanted every­thing to look a cer­tain way.

The menu

Spinach and Arti­choke dip; this dip was ok, easy to make and yummy. It is meant to be served warm though, so you have to make sure peo­ple eat it quickly.

Crab dip; this was a crab dip with taco type sea­son­ings and a few other ingre­di­ents. I felt that some of the fla­vors over pow­ered oth­ers but no one else seemed to mind and most of it was gone.

Black-bean lime dip; this dip was pro­lly the most fla­vor­ful, how­ever, it was also the most unpleas­ant to look at. No one even tried it and I felt kind of sad for it because the ingre­di­ents were dead on and the fla­vors were nice.

Lil pigs in a blan­ket for the kiddies

Moz­zarella and tomato basil skewers

Rose­mary cheese tortellini pasta salad; this was awe­some. I will try it again, tweak and per­fect. The prob­lem with this batch was, the rose­mary lid fell off as I was pour­ing the lit­tle amount in and dis­as­ter struck. Other then that, I can totally see this being an awe­some recipe!

Baked Beans; These were a bour­bon style baked bean with hot sausage and bacon (yes, I love to use hot sausage and I don’t know a meat eater that doesn’t love bacon!)

Turkey burg­ers; com­bined with fajita sea­son­ings, red pep­pers and onion. I didnt get to try one but some­one told me they were good.

Burg­ers; I make a kickin’ cheese burger! can’t dis­close whats in it just yet.

Peanut-butter pies; I made 24 mini peanut-butter pies. The pre­sen­ta­tion was not nearly as cool as I wanted it to be, but they all got eaten, so I guess it worked…

Fruit Bas­ket; Ok, I didn’t make this — my dads wife did. Pineap­ple, peaches, blue­ber­ries, water­melon, and strawberries.

Brown Sugar Dip; YUM

Mint Yogurt dip; this dip was a total waste! It had lemon zest in it that over pow­ered every­thing! I felt horrible!

Sweet fruit dip; this dip was a thicker tex­ture and had orange zest that was dif­fer­ent but not bad. In the future if it is made again, i will tweak it a lot.

And I totally for­got about it, but mini peanut but­ter pies! Always yummy.

My les­son for the future is to not care so much about every detail. Unless I am doing food prep for a wed­ding or some­thing along those lines, there is really no need. The details aren’t that impor­tant to non-foodies and if the food taste good no one really cares.

There were sev­eral items that I had pur­chased sup­plies for but never got around to mak­ing due to the crazy week that I had before the party. It was a good week though, so I really can’t complain!