Sunday, May 23, 2010

High Tea

I have been meaning to get on and write a post but life has a way of getting away from me. I have posted some pictures of our month lunch bunch. This month was High Tea. Oh and what fun we had. Since we are all members of the church there was no tea actually served but we were perfectly happy with Lemonade, from a concentrate no less. Yes when you live outside the United States so any length of time it is amazing what things become luxuries. I can't tell you how long it has been since I had drunken a drink made from concentrate. It is the little things like this that one comes to miss about home. As a child and young adult I didn't even realize there were places you couldn't get some things. Now as an adult I have found that even in the U.S. you can't get everything everywhere, but more so than when you live outside the U.S.
I feel bad we had a lovely assortment of different sandwich's that I didn't take a picture of since they were covered when I was taking pictures and I had put my camera away once we actually started to eat. But who knew one could be so happy and feel so spoiled with just a sandwich with the crust cut off. Really I forget how nice a simple sandwich is. I challenge anyone who happens to read this to make some cute little sandwiches, crust cut off, and cut into neat little triangles.
These Gooey Butter Butter Cakes (recipe below) were fabulous!!


Here are some ideas of things you can try:
Cucumber sandwiches (our were cream cheese and dry ranch dressing mixed together then sliced cucumbers)
Egg salad
Tuna with pickle and grated Swiss cheese
Curry Chicken
Shrimp salad
Cranberry fingers (mix Dijon mustard and whole cranberry sauce spread on bread with smoked turkey)
Or any other sandwich combination that you enjoy!


Gooey Butter Cakes...Paula Deen

CAKE
1 box yellow cake mix
1 egg
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

FILLING
1 8 oz. package cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 16 oz. box powdered sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13x9 pan.

With electric mixer, combine cake mix, egg and melted butter. Pat into prepared pan and set aside.

Still using electric mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth, add eggs and vanilla. Dump in powdered sugar and beat well. Reduce speed of mixer and slowly pour in melted butter. Pour filling onto cake mixture and spread evenly. Bake for 40-50 minutes. Don't be afraid to make a judgement call on the cooking time, because oven temperatures vary. You want the center to be a little gooey, so don't bake it past that point. Just make sure it rises so the cream cheese cooks through.

Cool completely and enjoy!


















Here are some ideas of things you can try:
Cucumber sandwiches (our were cream cheese and dry ranch dressing mixed together then sliced cumubers)
Egg salad
Tuna with pickle and grated swiss cheese
Curry Chicken
Shrimp salad
Cranberry fingers (mix dijon musturd and whole cranberry sauce spread on bread with smoked turkey)

1 comments:

Megan Raines said...

This High tea was an absolute fantasy! I agree about the sandwiches, particularly the shrimp variety! I am thrilled to have that recipe the gooey squares were incredible! Thank you!

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