Japanese Dinner Party

WE FINALLY DID IT! We finally had our Japanese Dinner! This dinner has been a long time coming, and I was starting to believe that it wasn't going to happen. But we persevered and made it happen and it was soooo worth it! All of the food was so delicious! I have so missed having The Wrights and The Higgins over for our international food nights! 

Food on the menu:

* Miso Soup

* Dumplings in traditional rice vinegar dipping sauce!

* Fried rice and marinated chicken wings

* Japanese Teriyaki Chicken Salad (Recipe below)

Oh YUM!

JAPANESE YUMMIES!

Next international food night... ITALIAN! Possibly one of my fav's!

Japanese Teriyaki Chicken Salad Recipe:

*Cooked short grain rice

*Salads: Red cabbage, green cabbage, lettuce, red onion, mushrooms, apples, mung beans, carrot, cucumber. (You can pretty much put anything on there that you like in a salad.)

* Marinated Teriyaki chicken strips

* Sesame Seed Dressing (you can buy this in most supermarkets)

* Ginger Dressing (click on this link for the recipe)

(You basically layer it up in this order in a big bowl and then dig in! You can have lots of different sauces too, like Sweet Chili or BBQ Sauce too.)

Mexican Night! mmmm

I still can't stop thinking about how yummy every mouthful of food was that I ate for our Mexican night! It was absolutely marvelous! Both Jess and Mel made dishes that I had never had before and made me fall in love with eating Mexican even more! The whole evening was lots of fun and we have decided that it was so much fun we are going to do another international cuisine night next month... mmm... maybe Italian... or Indian! So many choices! and I CAN'T WAIT!

Jess and Mel trying to figure out how you cut into a Quesadilla stack!

There was soooooooo much food... but the boys managed to clean up a lot of it... sitting at the little kids table! ha ha

My Enchilada on Mexican Rice

Mel's Chicken Quesadilla Stack with Crunchy Rice! (bahahah - personal joke)

Jessie's Weight Watches Taco