Planning an Olympics Party

Article: Let's Go to the Olympics Party

The Olympics only come around every 4 years and there are some of us who like the thrill and the majesty of the whole Olympic experience. Of course there are Sports Fans that also love all the events and love to root for the "Good Old USA". So this year, I am going to throw a party on the opening day of the Olympics. The summer Olympics this year will be held in Beijing, China so I thought this would be a great time to pull out some of my favorite Chinese recipes.

Since I have a large family room with couches I figured I would make this a buffet so that my guests can sit comfortable in front of my TV set. I plan on decorating with all the different flags from the different countries that will be at the Olympics. This was easily accomplished by going to this website, http://www.anbg.gov.au/flags/nation-flags.html and saving the flag graphics to my computer. I will then print them out on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper and make banners to go across my room by folding over the top edge of the paper and stapling it to a piece of yarn. I am going to make 4 banners to go across to the center of my room and then I will tie balloons in the center.

My centerpiece will be the same flags printed out smaller and stapled to balloon sticks and put into a vase with white carnations. I went online and looked up the mascots of the Beijing Olympics and found that they have 5 mascots so I will use graphics of these little guys to decorate my food table. It is as simple as paper-dolls when we were kids.

I plan on having at least one game to play so I thought that an Olympics Trivia game would be fun. I found this website that had a lot of Olympic facts that could be turned into a Olympics Trivia Game: http://www.topendsports.com/events/summer/trivia.htm

I went to the dollar store and found a black and white panda bear which I will decorate in red, white and blue for the winner's prize.

The Menu

• Fried Rice
• Spring Rolls
• Chop Suey
• Boiled Shrimp with sweet and sour dipping sauce
• Almond Ice Cream
• Plum Wine

Chop Suey

Ingredients

• 1 pound beef, cut in cubes
• 1/2 pound pork, cut in cubes
• 1 can bean sprouts
• 2 cups diced celery
• 1/2 cup of water
• 1/2 cup of onions diced
• 1 pkg of Chinese pea pods (Snow peas)
• 1 can of water chestnuts, cut fine
• 1 can mushrooms with juice
• 2 Tbsp. flour
• 2 Tbsp. soy sauce
• Chow mien noodles

Directions

Spring Rolls

Ingredients

• 1 package egg roll wrappers
• 6 mushrooms cut in thin strips
• 2/3 pound ground chicken or turkey
• 1 small can water chestnuts chopped
• 2/3 pound of shrimp shelled and minced
• 1 pound of bean sprouts
• 1/2 cup of bamboo shoots shredded
• 1/3 tsp. garlic salt
• 1/2 tsp. sugar
• 1/3 tsp. pepper

Directions

Fried Rice

To decorate the dessert of almond ice cream I will either have sparklers that I stick in and light at the last second or I am going to use colored light sticks.

I hope this gives you all a great start on a party to celebrate the Olympics!

Editor's Note: The Beijing Summer Olympics will run from August 8 - 24, 2008. For more information, you can visit the official website here:

• http://en.beijing2008.cn/

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