In celebration of my friend Lynn’s birthday, we decided to have a pot luck barbecue. It was a nice, chilly evening with cheeseburgers, salads, dips, and lots of condiments.
Ali did a marvelous job on the grill, cooking all the beef burgers, chicken burgers, and chicken dogs until they were juicy and tender.
While waiting for our meat to cook, we munched on pita and some amazing dips — courtesy of Sofra.
Clockwise from the top: hummus, eggplant, mystery dip, baba ghanoush, and tzatziki.
Here is a delicious salad with mixed greens, pears, walnuts, and blue cheese — sophisticated and stinky.
Creamy coleslaw — so much better than plain old vinegar coleslaw.
And… more beautiful salads!
From the left: edamame and kale salad, mango salad — with big chunks of mango that everyone thought were butternut squash, and roasted red pepper chick pea salad.
And finally, a delicious quinoa salad.
What would a party be without quinoa?
Quinoa salad with black beans, edamame beans, red pepper, and broccoli — I packed some leftovers for lunch.
Some things I forgot to photograph: beer, condiments, cheese, buns, vinegar coleslaw, chicken dogs — sorry, I must have been so hungry I forgot.
Dessert pictures to come.
Yours edibly,
Elana
Yours Edibly 
yummy! bring on the dessert pictures!