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Tea party! Favorite finger foods please
so as a quick f/u to a earlier post (weeks ago), I decided to throw an "English Tea Time" party for some friends.
I have the teas....about 30ish loose leave and maybe another 10 bagged kinds
One of my friends already offered to make scones.
I would like to make:
quiche
egg salad sandwiches
cucumber sandwiches
brownie bites
cake balls
*any other finger foods/english tea-themed foods
I've never made any of them (except brownies from a box), so if you have a "favorite" recipe for one or more of the above, please share with me!
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Re: Tea party! Favorite finger foods please
Brownie bites are your favorite brownie recipe baked in a mini-muffin tin.
Cucumber sandwiches are easy. Slice an english cucumber into to thin slices. Mix together EVOO and White Wine vinegar into a 2:3 ratio. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Soak cucumbers in oil-vinegar mix for 15 minutes. Take thin slices of bread and spread with butter. Overlap slices of cucumber on bread and top with second slice of buttered bread. Cut off crusts and slice into triangles.
Another popular English Tea Sandwich is cream cheese and chutney. Take thick slices of wheat bread, spread a thin layer of cream cheese. Add a thin layer of Major grey's chutney. Cut off crusts and slice into triangles.
Strawberry Jam tarts are the usual English Dessert www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Jam-Tarts-240033
haha - yes, I know
- just wondering what people's favorite brownie recipe is, since mine always comes from a box!
these both look awesome, thanks!
also, I decided to make it around dinner time, so looking for a "favorite" Italian Wedding Soup recipe (I've had it at a tea place and it was awesome)
My friend made these today for my own baby shower, and they were a huge hit. They're not a finger food per se, but you can make them ahead in single-serve cups and they would be perfectly accompany tea sandwiches and desserts!
http://eating-made-easy.com/2011/02/19/greek-salad-cups/
I always make the same kind of quiche...breakfast/sausage quiche and people always ask me how to make it (or when the next time I'll make one for them is, LOL). I never measure anything so this is approximate and from memory?Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Prick and bake an empty pie shell for 6-7 minutes. Brown a package of ?Regular? Jimmy Dean sausage, add chopped onion and green pepper (eyeball amounts, I guess I normally use a small onion and a small pepper) and continue cooking until the veggies start to get soft then turn off the heat. Add 2 cups (a small package) of shredded cheddar cheese and put the sausage mixture in the pie crust. In a separate bowl, mix a few eggs together with heavy whipping cream (I?m sure you could use milk) so it looks like you?re making scrambled eggs then pour the egg mixture over the sausage mixture. Bake the quiche on a cookie sheet for about 35-45 minutes, until the eggs are done (they won?t jiggle) and the crust is brown (if it starts to get too brown, cover the edges with foil).
If you don?t want to do a ?breakfast quiche? you could surely alter the ingredients to suit your taste?.ground turkey instead of sausage, maybe add cilantro or parsley to the eggs or maybe use a different cheese.
I have a blog entry (with several follow up ones with recipes) about throwing a tea party.
Click me!
Tea Time for Lulu