Entertaining Others

ndvoice

I had friends over last night for dinner. I was able to share an evening of Low Carb yumminess and no one even noticed the low carb status. My female friend will eat anything, but her husband is an old-school comfort food type (and picky eater) so I was a little nervous! Results - He took seconds of everything! I'll share the menu below. But would also be curious to hear if anyone has any menus that they've served while entertaining? I need ideas for next time please

Appetizers: olives, pickles, hard salami, cheese, hummus, veggies.

Dinner:
Thai beef stew (stew meat in coconut based sauce with spices).
Asian broccoli slaw (almond butter, rice vinegar, peanut flour, peanut oil)
Thai cucumbers (sliced with red onion, peanut oil, rice vinegar & chili paste)

I skipped dessert because I knew we would be stuffed - and we were!

wabmester

We went over to a friend's house last night to celebrate Día de los Muertos, so she served several Mexican dishes. Mexican food isn't famous for being low-carb.

But she had fajitas with salsa and guac on the side. Perfect.

Queenmunchy

ndvoice wrote: »

I had friends over last night for dinner. I was able to share an evening of Low Carb yumminess and no one even noticed the low carb status. My female friend will eat anything, but her husband is an old-school comfort food type (and picky eater) so I was a little nervous! Results - He took seconds of everything! I'll share the menu below. But would also be curious to hear if anyone has any menus that they've served while entertaining? I need ideas for next time please

Appetizers: olives, pickles, hard salami, cheese, hummus, veggies.

Dinner:
Thai beef stew (stew meat in coconut based sauce with spices).
Asian broccoli slaw (almond butter, rice vinegar, peanut flour, peanut oil)
Thai cucumbers (sliced with red onion, peanut oil, rice vinegar & chili paste)

I skipped dessert because I knew we would be stuffed - and we were!

Is that the recipe from againstallgrain.com? It's on my meal plan for Wednesday. How was it?

ndvoice

Queenmunchy wrote: »

ndvoice wrote: »

I had friends over last night for dinner. I was able to share an evening of Low Carb yumminess and no one even noticed the low carb status. My female friend will eat anything, but her husband is an old-school comfort food type (and picky eater) so I was a little nervous! Results - He took seconds of everything! I'll share the menu below. But would also be curious to hear if anyone has any menus that they've served while entertaining? I need ideas for next time please

Appetizers: olives, pickles, hard salami, cheese, hummus, veggies.

Dinner:
Thai beef stew (stew meat in coconut based sauce with spices).
Asian broccoli slaw (almond butter, rice vinegar, peanut flour, peanut oil)
Thai cucumbers (sliced with red onion, peanut oil, rice vinegar & chili paste)

I skipped dessert because I knew we would be stuffed - and we were!

Is that the recipe from againstallgrain.com? It's on my meal plan for Wednesday. How was it?

It is! It was good, but next time I'll skip the tomato paste & add lemongrass. I think it's good to appeal to the masses & then we can customize later. And I didn't add the carrot & broccoli to the crock pot. I served them as a slaw on the side instead. So my crock was meat only.

Queenmunchy

Did you put the jicama in the crockpot or was that on the side too? I'm going to definitely try it as written and see what we can change next time.

ndvoice

Queenmunchy wrote: »

Did you put the jicama in the crockpot or was that on the side too? I'm going to definitely try it as written and see what we can change next time.

Our grocery didn't have jicama, so I skipped it all together.

LaurenBraddy

That sounds delicious! I'd love your stew recipe!

ndvoice

LaurenBraddy wrote: »

That sounds delicious! I'd love your stew recipe!

If you click on the link above a couple squares - it's on the against all grain website.