Wine Bar Party | Green Dog Wine

You may have heard me talk about this fabulous restaurant HERE, and HERE.

While Wine Bar is absolutely fabulous, it can get kind of pricey, if you are having a night out on the town. So, Kristin and Jen had the great idea to throw a “Wine Bar Party” this weekend – where they re-created all our favorite dishes on the menu. Not only did they re-create them, but they made them better!

The girls took all the cooking on themselves, so all I had to do was get myself dressed, and show up with a bottle of wine. How easy is that?

Here’s the two bottles I brought – a Sauv Blanc (my very most favorite wine), and this pretty bottle of sparkling white (Kelsey inspired me, she’s been lovin’ on this bottle a lot the past few weeks!) I tried to get as many pictures of the food as I could, but there was just so much amazing stuff – I didn’t do that great of a job! Or at least – I didn’t do the fabulous food justice!

We had this bowl of fruit – which was beautiful and vibrant in color, and equally delicious in taste!!To go along with the fruit, the girls also made Ali’s fruit dip:Honestly, this stuff was amazing! Everyone loved it, and the every time someone took a bite, we thought of another use for it! (I was thinking – it would make great frosting on my low cal cupcakes!)

My wine glass had obviously never met me – my charm said “Wallflower“ You know me, quiet and shy!

Here’s all the wine:Little Penguin Cabernet Sauv, TJ’s Moscato, Zarafa Sauv Blanc, Albero Sparkling White:Blue Fin Pinot Noir, Mirassou Pinot Noir, Monkey Bay Rose:Hi Kristin! The wine was great, we really had a nice, diverse selection! I tried almost all of them, and I officially have a new love – that’s competing with Sauv Blanc for my affection:I’ve never tried Rose before! I was silly, and assumed it was like White Zinfandel, because it was the same color! It tastes NOTHING like White Zin!! I was VERY VERY PLEASANTLY surprised by the taste of this!! Delish!

More 5 star food – these little mozzarella, basil, tomato stacks:The perfect finger food, so delicious!

Homemade hummus and veggies:Avocado Brie Bruschetta:And that’s just barely half of the food!! I had trouble snagging pictures of the other half of the table – so here’s an overall shot:I missed individual pictures of the:

Buffalo Chicken Dip (I thought about trying to sneak the container out in my purse it was THAT good)
Homemade pita chips with an awesome KICK
Roasted Red Pepper/Eggplant spread from TJ’s
Flatbread pizzas (made from scratch) with feta and sun dried tomatoes

I was having such a great time, I ended up staying out too late, and skipped Bootcamp (at 7am on the holiday!?!?!?!?!) Monday morning.

But you know what? I didn’t beat myself up over it – you only live once, you might as well enjoy ever second you’ve got right?

17 Comments so far

YUM! What a fun night with great eats! Mmm buf chicken dip? Sounds incredible

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What a great night!! Show up with wine? That’s doable

That TJs red pepper spread – YUMMMM!! You do, indeed, only live once, glad you had a great time!

Everything sounds and looks delicious! And it’s okay to miss a workout every now and then – as long as the alternative was totally worth it

Okay, when I saw WINE in the title of your post, I knew it was going to be good!

Mirassou Pinot Noir is a new love of mine!! And I love Roses, I’ll have to be on the lookout for that one

Looks like it was such a fun night, great idea!

I LOVE wine parties! So fun fun fun

And I would be so appalled if you went to Boot Camp that early on Memorial Day. You only live once, you’re totally right!

Looks like an amazing spread! Wine + great snacks =
Glad you liked the dip – you just made me want to make it again!

those apps all look and sound AWESOME. especially the home-made hummus – those tomato basil ones look like ladybugs!!!

no worries about missing boot camp. youll remember the memories from last night years from now, boot camp can wait

Whoa girl you had one hell of a rocking weekend! Totally jealous!

Partay partay hay haaayy!! I love all the appetizers! The avocado brie little things are just calling my name! Hey..you only live once and you can do that bootcamp next weekend! My perfect quote to summarize my high school experience is, “You can retake a class, but you can’t relive a party!”

Good thing I balanced both because there was/will be no classes retaken!

you guys know how to have a party!! (no surprise there.) everything over the whole weekend looks great, fun, and delicious!

what a pretty spread!

The Tomato snacks look like a plate of lady bugs!! crazy

What a tasty party, totally love it!!

I want to eat the entire plate of the tomato, moz, bas, snacks!!! YUMMO!!!

i love your wine bar parties! and your apps look amazing! i want the tomato mozz yummmerrrr

[...] packed my own lunch – but Jen and Kristin were nice enough to bring the leftovers from the Wine Bar Party into work for us to munch on! They didn’t need to twist my arm to jump right [...]

[...] that Wine Bar Party I mentioned Sunday? The leftovers keep following me (hey – I’M NOT COMPLAINING!) [...]

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