Dinner for a Party

Ok, whatever. I just posted about the new low Glycemic Load diet. Which we have been following very nicely, thank you. Husband has lost 10 lb and I am still sitting - through hormonal swings - at about 5lb lost. I think next week I'll see even more.

At any rate, we had our weekly run to the Chinese store - Oh MY - it is Chinese New Year and the place was so crowded! But I digress - we came home with some pre-made chinese chicken skewers and some verdant and beguiling green beans, not to mention our other finds.

Ergo. For dinner, a bit of a break from said diet, we had: lumpia (the famous phillipino egg rolls, which we buy pre-made from the 99 Ranch Market - who needs to slave all day when you can get perfection for a very reasonable price?), Chicken skewers, rice (white - shudder - we have been eating nothing but brown, and as it would turn out nobody ate more than a few tablespoons), green beans cooked with gobs of garlic, peanut oil, sesame oil and chili oil - all in vastly reduced amounts over what we would have used a year ago. Everything was pow-d (how you shake the wok to make everything "jump") until there was a bit of browning on the beans. Then I added some low-sodium soy sauce and covered the lot with a plate on a low heat to steam just a bit.

The skewers cooked on a pancake grill and a leafy green salad with some green onions and some rice wine vinegar and peanut oil - just the teensiest bit made for some forage.

We pretty much feasted after having such diet fare for the last few weeks. But we were actually pretty restrained, and the flavors we so full that we felt really full without over-eating.

I think that given our particular social circle that this would be a really good dinner to offer. No bones, lots of veg, a bit of fried and nothing too challenging in terms of eating or of cooking.

So I'm blogging so that I won't forget to serve this!

Rice
Salad
Chicken Skewers
Lumpia
Green beans with garlic

Yummo. Hope I don't have to pay the price with the scales tomorrow.