Party Food

We managed to squeeze 40-some people into our house for our springtime fiesta. This is no small feat given that our house has approximately 1150 square feet of finished space. Yes, we have a full basement, but all of the walls have scary murals on them, painted by the previous owner's (who was in her 80s when we moved in) grandfather. Yikes. Someday I'll go down there and take photos to share with you all.

I have no idea who grabbed my camera and took this pic, but my sister looks pissed.

I figured that all these people would want SOMETHING to munch on more substantial than the delicious cupcakes that Kate and I prepared. I have a tendency to go a bit overboard on party food, so this time I chose to keep it simple by just making 2 pretty easy appetizers and buying a few bags of chips.

Pioneer Woman always has crowd pleasing food, so I decided to go with her bacon wrapped jalapeno appetizers. Ben and I formed an assembly line - I chopped off the tops of the jalapenos, he seeded them, I filled them with cream cheese, and he wrapped bacon around them. I only had one of these, and it was so hot that I couldn't feel my tongue for the rest of the night. Clearly Ben had some issues with seeding :) Some of them weren't hot at all, supposedly. These all got eaten very quickly!

One little tip if you make these - don't use the same pan for both batches unless you drain the grease, or else you WILL set off your smoke alarm.

I also finally tried the "crack dip" (aka Buffalo Chicken Dip) that I'd heard about on many blogs. I only had one bite of this too, but it tasted great! Many people asked me for the recipe. I didn't get a picture, but it is in the little crockpot on the table next to me in this photo :) It was white and creamy. Actually kind of a light orange because of the buffalo sauce. NOT very pretty!

Because this was MY party, inside the keg was Miller Lite :) Thanks to Janelle for the pic!

As a special TREAT for me, Scott brought over homemade sushi! This was quite a feat for him, as he had SUCH a busy day that Saturday! His in-laws came over for brunch at noon, and then he came to our party that night. Wow! How exhausting ;) Thankfully, he found time to make all this and bring it over! I think there was spicy tuna, crabcake rolls, and some sort of cream cheese and something or other roll. The ones I had were deeeeee lish.