In May we celebrated Mothers Day at our annual tea party. The theme this year was all about books and we turned our tea room into a library to set the tone. The past week I have been sharing some of the tea party highlights and today I am back to pick up where I left off at the end of Chapter 4.
Once we had all finished our Adventurous beginnings it was time for a cup {or two} of soup. We actually had two soup choices this year and they were both delicious. The BBR soup is a family recipe and is a story in itself but the Cock~A Leakie soup was something new. I believe we all agreed it was wonderful and it even had a mystery ingredient which made it quite tasty.
Everyone tried to guess but it was so unusual it was hard to figure out. Can you guess what it is?
We also served traditional layered tea sandwiches and my chicken salad croissant sandwiches which I serve at every tea party however we were having so much fun that I missed the chance to get pictures this time. You can check them out one of our other tea parties though by clicking on the highlighted link to above.
Last but not least Chapter 7... dessert.
We had to laugh because the list of sweet treats was so long.
It was hard to narrow down the desserts, as usual, so instead of trying to pick and choose I just made them all or almost all. There did come a point when miss E reigned me in and said we had enough desserts. She was right.
My family thinks I am a little nuts about sweets, which of course I am, but that did not prevent us from sampling all of them.
Our menu had gluten free options as well, in all categories, including dessert.
Always a family favorite are the chocolate covered strawberries.
I used my grandma's ginger snap recipe to make the Molasses cookies so they were an extra special part of the story.
The Macadamia Nut Cookie recipe is one I created to coordinate with the stamped pineapple cutout cookies and the Rocky Road Bars are so good that you cannot stop at just one.
It certainly turned out to be A Novel Affair and another memorable story to add to the Chronicles of the NoBull Clan. It was definitely one for the books.
{ And BTW, the mystery ingredient in the soup was Prunes! }
Happy Wednesday!
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