Things have been somewhat busy around here, so I’m a little behind in sharing here all of the things I’ve been able to check off my 101 in 1001 list- which you can find here.
Number 36 on my list was to host a tapas dinner with friends, so on July 30th- that’s exactly what I did. My friend Bobbi and I were officially the hostesses with the mostess, but we had it at my home.
It wasn’t tapas in the traditional Spanish manner- but it was more a mish-mash of everyone bring something to contribute in mini. The idea was to have a lot of little things and mostly to laugh and have fun in the midst of friends.
Since Bobbi and I were the ones hosting- we provided all the drinks- the tiny tapas containers to present the food and also we created quite a few goodies to add to what ended up being a huge table of food.
The picture to your right shows two of the the many things we had- grilled shrimp with seaweed salad inside cucumber ‘baskets’. I also made marinated chicken breast bites wrapped in bacon- and Bobbi made this delicious (colorful and spicy) mango salsa to go along with them. It was the perfect combination.
We ate Orange Cream Cupcakes- Oreo Cheesecake bites- and some sinfully delicious Peanut Butter Brownies with Fudge that were to die for- literally. We also had stuffed olives, grape truffles, cranberry cream cheese muffins, blueberry muffins, ham-cheese roll-ups, roasted nuts in various flavors, veggies tray, zucchini rolls, zucchini bites, meatballs, curry chicken breast, dim sum and the list goes on and on. You get the idea though- There was a LOT of food!
It was a lot of fun and I do believe everyone else enjoyed themselves as well. Some came early to help set everything up, and most everyone offered to help clean up, which I thought was very sweet considering the huge mound of dishes that I had to do.
I have new ideas for another party but that won’t be until the first of the year sometime- during the winter months when there isn’t much to do- but I’ll share more about that at another time.