last stop on a progressive dinner....

[zoe b]

yes, we have that dubious honor--next weekend we are having a Chinese New Year progressive dinner--and if it's anything like the last one we had--by the time everyone gets to our house they will be bloated and quite bibulous.

so we haven't decided what to serve--either a dessert plate with five or six little tiny servings of delicious desserts--green tea ice cream, and tiny cakes and some sort of fruit something and little cookies--or a truly delicious bite of something crispy and rejuvenating--some kind of fried shrimp. maybe--it would have to be intense to rouse people from the fog of too much food--or possibly a cold noodle dish---but i think people would refuse to eat noodles at that point--the thought of more fill in the stomach would be unthinkable.

we are serving champagne with litchee nuts for our drink--each house does a different drink, so there's more than food warring in the gut that night!

So, any thoughts on dishes?

Zoe

[Abra]

I like your idea of little mini bites. Even the fullest person can usually get interested in one bite of this, one bite of that. I'd get one or two spicy glazed nuts on each plate, and maybe a little caramelized fresh pineapple.

[LindaK]

an assortment of fresh fruit sounds generous, flavorful, and light. Cookies (or a home made version of fortune cookies) to accompany sounds nice too.

If you want to go to real trouble, what about a selection of granitas (ginger, green tea, melon or other fruit, etc.?) so everyone gets a bowl with a small scoop of each, maybe with a cookie. It would be very light but special.