I was so excited to have my knitting girlfriends over last night! It was the real get together that I’ve hosted in my new home, so we had a big potluck dinner. I was busy all day with work and 6:30pm rolled around before I knew it! I chose to make edamame (in the microwave), homemade pita chips (toasted in the oven with salt, pepper, oregano, paprika, and cheese), and little stacks of muenster cheese and prosciutto on organic water crackers. I also put out some sweets like mochi and lotus seed mooncakes.

The girls started arriving at 7:30 and I realized we had nothing to eat on! Luckily, I’ve got tons of cute plastic bowls from Ikea in all different colors, so we used that with my mismatched cups and silverware. It was actually a good thing that my cups don’t match because it was easy to tell which one was yours! (I’m usually the one walking around at family functions with a marker to label everyone’s disposable cups!)

We had a mountain of food from spiced cookies with buttercream frosting to cheesy broccoli and rice to my fav black bean & corn salsa to beautiful fruit bowls! It was great to catch up with the girls again since I hadn’t seen them in months! I learned that K’s getting her master gardener certification, JI is a budding cookie biz entreprenuer (her cookies are amazing and she’s taking orders for the holidays now, so lemme know if you want her info!), and JH is trying but taking her temp at the wrong time :-P

I was really happy because we had a great time and aside from paper napkins, we didn’t use any wasteful disposable products! (We didn't even have bottle drinks, just my Brita.) I guess by not planning ahead, I was forced to be green =) We’re throwing a little party this weekend to celebrate the arrival of our new grill and smoker, so I have to remember to go buy some more plates because those little bowls aren’t gonna fly when it comes to bbq!