Memorial Day Weekend BBQ Party

Memorial day weekend is the beginning of summer. Summer means BBQ. Everybody in the U.S. celebrate this beginning of summer three day weekend with BBQ. I also celebrated summer with BBQ on Saturday inviting some friends.

About 20 adults and 5 kids came to visit and it was a great and fun BBQ.

Some of our friends brought beautiful flowers. I love having flowers in my house. It brighten the house up.

Since it is BBQ, we asked everybody to bring whatever they want to BBQ. We didn't have to prepare much but I made two different kinds of appetizer and one dessert.

One of the appetizer was mini smokes salmon wrap. I made this salmon wrap before but I thought it will be a great appetizer if I made this into bite size pieces.

It came out great! It looks pretty and everybody liked it. I think this is a perfect appetizer for a summer party. (Click here to go to previous post for the recipe)

I also made cheese roll using phyllo sheet and feta cheese. For dessert, I made banana pudding which was a great success. I made this banana pudding once before and everybody loved it then so I decided to make it again. I will write about them tomorrow.

For the BBQ, we grilled different kinds of stuff. You don't see them in the photo but we also had shrimp and salmon etc.

The huge sausage in the middle is a special sausage from Poland. Our friend from Brooklyn went to a Polish store and bought it. It was really good.

I also made caramelized onion for hamburger. This is five onions. Can you believe it? It is crazy how small they get when you caramelize them but it tasted great with hamburger.

This is my hamburger.

I had a great time. It was so much fun! I think we should make this as a tradition. I love having BBQ. It is nice to have a cold drink and eat something delicious under the sun. All of our neighbors are also having BBQ and everybody was having fun. I love Memorial day weekend. Summer is finally here!!!

Easy! Honey Mustard Smoked Salmon Wrap

During the Christmas Holiday, I went to Manhattan with my parents in laws and had lunch at Demel which is famous for their chocolate and cakes.(Click here for that post)  I ordered Salmon Wrap and this was really really good so I wanted to recreate this salmon wrap at home.

You Don't need to cook anything you just need to assemble it and warp in a flour tortilla. It is so easy and combination of smoked salmon, sweet honey mustard and spicy arugula (rucola) makes it perfect.

My husband does not too fond of fish but even he really liked this wrap. There is no cooking involved but this is how I made it.

Honey Mustard Smoked Salmon Wrap
Ingredients (for 1 wrap)
Smoked Salmon  2 slices
Honey Mustard   1 table spoon
Dill                     1 tea spoon
Arugula (rucola)  a handful
Flour Tortilla  (large one for burrito) 1 sheet

1, Chop dill and mix with honey mustard.

I used this kind of honey mustard. This one was really good.

2, Spread honey mustard with dill on a Tortilla sheet.

3, Add Arugula (rucola) in the middle and also add slices of salmon on top of Arugula. (If you would like, you can add more dills on top of salmon.

4, Just roll it from your side and cut into half.

Super easy isn't it? This taste really good and also look good. I think this is more like a summer dish. It will be also great to cut them into small pieces and serve them as a snack at a party.

Smoke salmon is great to eat with cream cheese on bagel and also in wrap with honey mustard like this. I did not use smoked salmon before but I would like to use this ingredients more often from now on. You don't have to cook and it looks beautiful. I recommend this wrap to you. The important point is to use good Honey Mustard! Enjoy!