What's on the Menu

DH's birthday is coming up so I am cooking.  Two guys he used to work with bring their wives, and we all help celebrate.  Tonight we are having:

• APPETIZERS - veggies & dip - dip recipes from HERE (there many recipes here - just page through.  I have made up tortilla mix, ranch dressing mix, and onion soup mix.  All of them make good dips with either sour cream or plain yogurt)
• crackers & cheese & kielbasa
• MAIN COURSE - pulled pork from THIS recipe
• toasted buns for the pork
• baked potatoes with sour cream, chopped green onions, grated cheddar cheese
• kale salad from Costco (seriously - DH actually put this in the cart himself.  Kale!!  Could zucchini be next?)
• chocolate cake with ice cream

I have my own chocolate cake mix that I make up and keep in the pantry.  Because I don't like ingredient lists like this:

This is the mix that I keep in the pantry, in a very fancy (?) ziploc bag.

The frosting is a Martha Stewart recipe, HERE.

I'm also whipping up a pitcher of green cocktails for the girls, involving rum.  AND I will put a pitcher of lemon-water on the dining room table to perhaps forestall the hangovers.  :-)