Showing posts with label tea parties. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tea parties. Show all posts
Monday, April 24, 2023
Monday, May 2, 2022
Let's Par-Tea!
Every other month, a group of friends that met through water aerobics, gets together for a lunch to celebrate birthdays, and friendship.
Monday, July 5, 2021
Cheesy Chicken
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My good friends brought over a harvest from their garden and I made one of my favorite meals of Cheesy Chicken, with the cherry tomatoes and fresh green beans.
Monday, August 10, 2020
Watermelon Themed Tea Party
My granddaughter Ella and I had a watermelon tea party this past week.
I made two layers of cake ahead of time, and also made a batch of homemade cream cheese frosting for decorating.
We set the table with this pretty tablecloth that my late beloved mom embroidered years and years ago.
Ella chose this teacup that my late Great Aunt Kitty made.
I chose this vintage Johnson Brothers Rolland teacup.
We used my Susan Wingate teapot from years ago, and the Summer blocks were from my sister.
We drank strawberry watermelon sugar free drink mix in our teacups. Who says that you have to drink tea?!
Ella set the timer for our selfie!
Monday, August 3, 2020
Vacation in Utah
My youngest son and daughter-in-law invited me to join them for their last week of a month long vacation in Utah, and I didn't let Covid-19 steal my joy!! Actually I felt that airports and airlines were cleaner than ever, and I felt very safe.
Kristen had to work for most of the week, and couldn't join us, but on this day we went to Wasatch National Forest, and this was at Mirror Lake.
The girls are pretty good little hikers! The first two and a half weeks they traveled all around Utah, and even stayed in a teepee, went kayaking, and visited National Parks.
I joined the girls inside this little log playhouse.
We also took a train ride and were serenaded by a violin playing lady who took requests for songs.
This was a view from our condo, of the alpine slide.
We took a ski lift up to the top of the mountain. Yes, we had to wear masks until we got on the lift.
Hayden and I enjoyed the slide, but Kevin and Harper beat us, of course. Harper said, "Why'd you go so slow, Nana?" I told her that it was my first time and the next time, I'd go faster!
The girls and I had a tea party while their parents were packing up the night before we left. I found some placemats in the cupboard and used a cutting board for our tray. I had brought a tiny tea set that my sister had given to me.
I also brought cookie cutters to make some open faced tea sandwiches.
Both girls enjoyed pouring the Bigelow Botanical Cold Water Infused Herbal, Caffeine Free teabags that I brought along.
Thank you for visiting our time in Utah!
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Monday, July 6, 2020
Our Blue Themed Tea in the Garden
Ella decided that she wanted a Blue Themed Tea Party in the Garden. Why, you wonder?? She had a pretty blue dress that she wanted to wear! She chose the blue runner and matching napkins that I had made while ago, as our table covering, but she thought it needed something underneath. I just let her go for it! She used the yellow roses that her dad, my son, Tim, had surprised with me with on what would've been my 50th wedding anniversary.
Ella loves hummus, so we put some in a pretty blue teacup, along with some carrot sticks, cucumbers, and blue corn tortilla chips, in a side dish for us to share.
We put together a Cobb Salad with a spicy ranch dressing. Ella is like eating with a girlfriend, because she loves to eat, and likes most everything. Do you notice our blue iced tea? My friend, Pat, gave me some Adagio Blue Mango Tea that you make with cold water and leave it in the fridge overnight. It actually turned that bright blue color. I used my maternal grandmother's stemware.
Ella arranged the Feta cheese, tomatoes, egg slices, turkey, avocado and bacon on top of the chopped lettuce.
When we decided our theme, Ella thought that blueberry muffins would be good, and she ate two! I'm again using my beautiful cake dome that I won from Linda, at Life and Linda. It's the perfect size for tea party treats! Thank you, again, Linda!
We were ready for our dessert and I surprised her with Mochi Ice Cream balls. Have you ever tried them? They're only about 100 calories, and they are the perfect little treat. Yes, I got a chance to dress up, too, which is always nice because I never go any where to do that!
This yummy blueberry center was inside the Mochi treat.
I chose this Nasco teacup, called Lakeview, that I received in a teacup exchange, but I had mine hot.
I hope you enjoyed our tea in the garden. Even though the temperatures were in the 90's, we didn't mind eating outside on my shady patio.
I recently won this wonderful book from Cheryl's giveaway at Homespun Devotions.
Thank you, Cheryl, for this lovely giveaway!!
If you've ever visited Marilyn at Mountaintop Spice,you would realize what a beautiful God-given gift that she has, through her photography. I always thought that she should have a book, because her photos are so amazingly wonderful, and now she does! To get your own copy of this fabulous book, you can visit Marilyn.
Thank you for your visit! xo
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Monday, June 22, 2020
Bee Tea Party
Ella and I chose a Bee Theme for this week's garden tea party.
Here's Ella in her pretty tea party dress. She choose the table covering to complement our dishes, teacups, teapot, and napkins. Of course, she had her toenails and fingernails painted, and her hair beachwaved again.
Isn't this the cutest beehive teapot? It came from HomeGoods before the Covid. Ella decided that she wanted iced tea in it, and still use our pretty teacups, which was perfect for our Texas heat! Ella chose Ahmad's Lemon Lime Twist tea, and she declared it as "interesting". Let's just say that it wasn't our cup of tea!!!
These are our pretty napkins that we used.
Ella set the table, and she chose a bee teacup that my daughter had given me, and I chose a Mary Engelbreit one that a friend had given me. We used my plaid plates. We had some homemade pimento cheese and some Boursin cheese and crackers, along with our salads.
Ella sliced the strawberries with my egg slicer and arranged them on our lettuce, along with some roasted pecans, feta cheese, and chopped chicken.
We enjoyed our time together and played Old Maids and Uno afterwards.
Yield: 6 cakelets + 1 mini loaf
Cornbread
I tried the cornbread recipe that came with my beehive cakelet pan, but it was very dry. I decided to use my old, tried and true recipe that I've been making for 40+years. Ella poured on a simple glaze of powdered sugar and lemon juice, and attached the bees, from Wilton.
Ingredients:
- 1 c. flour
- 1 T. baking powder
- 1/2 t. salt
- 1/3 c. sugar
- 1/2 c. cornmeal
- 1 c. milk
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 1 T. vegetable oil
Instructions:
- Spray the beehive cakelet pan with baking spray that contains flour. You also can use a cast iron skillet or a 8" baking dish, or a muffin pan.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Add the milk to the beaten egg & add the oil. Stir this into the dry ingredients.
- Pour into prepared pan. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 15-18 minutes for the cakelets, and 20 minutes if using a cast iron skillet or baking dish.
Ella's sister, Avery, wanted to go to a cupcake place, and that sounded great to me! However, the place closed at 6 pm, and we sadly had to change plans and get some gelato.
My grandsons, Riley and Caiden wanted to go get wings after their football camp, and I was happy to take them. The restaurant took our temperature before we were seated, and we were spread far apart inside from other tables.
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Monday, June 8, 2020
Garden Tea Party with My Granddaughter
My sweet granddaughter mentioned recently when she was leaving my house, that she loved my teacups, and wondered if we could have a tea party. Well, this grandmother was so ecstatic and said that of course we could!
Ella was excited to wear a pretty dress, and she had her toenails and fingernails polished, and her hair curled with her beachwave curling wand. She also brought a cute purse. Shes filling up our mini food safe pots with pudding for our dirt cake, by squeezing it from a plastic bag, with a hole in the corner. She's wearing an apron to protect her pretty dress. I decided to wear a pretty dress, too, and we couldn't believe that we both had chosen pink!
Ella chose to have our tea party in the garden. I let her choose the tablecloth, and the china pieces. We used cloth napkins and Ella put the pillows for each chair. We used my wedding crystal for our water, and Ella squeezed lemon into each goblet. We decided to add some of my pastel sugar cubes to the lemon water to make some lemonade!
Our menu consisted of tiny buns filled with turkey and gouda cheese, cucumbers with a topper of herbed cheese, and garnished with fresh herbs from the garden, carrot sticks, and grape tomatoes with ranch dip. Ella is such a good eater and this was all foods that she loved. Ella used my crinkle veggie cutter to cut the carrots and cucumbers.
She wanted to use this special teapot and matching teacups that dear friends gave to me.
Our mini dirt cakes were so yummy! All we used was vanilla instant pudding, mixed with 1 and 1/2 cups milk, and then some Cool Whip folded in. One crushed up Oreo was enough "dirt" to top the little pots of pudding. We planted the pots with faux silk flowers, that I had cleaned. Ella put the tiny tea spoons into the pots.
Isn't she darling? Ella wanted to know how I got started with collecting teacups. I explained that my late Great Aunt Kitty painted 6 sets for me, which consisted of teacups, saucers, and luncheon plates, that she gave me as a shower gift, and now people know that I love tea, and they gift me with teacups. We both enjoyed our tea party so much that we have so many more parties planned with different themes. Ella is already planning what she wants to wear to each. We are both looking forward to our next tea time together. We will be creating more memories together.
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