A Special Afternoon Tea

I was once so impressed by something my friend Mrs. McLean had either baked or cooked, that I exclaimed: "One day, you're going to cater my wedding!"  I wasn't dating anyone of interest at the time but when it came to the time of my wedding, she reminded me what I had said and offered to stand by my request.  

I was reminded of this when I went searching through our inbox for a corn bread recipe and came across this little gem: 

All righty, here we go, I'm gonna make for you:

Savouries:

* Sushi sandwiches: probably salmon & cucumber; salami & carrot

(don't worry, that's just an easier way of formatting the sushi, not like I make a molenberg sandwich with rice and wasabi)

* Satay pork meatballs with sweet chilli dipping sauce

* ham & pineapple pizza pinwheels

* roast vegetable mini pizzas

* savoury pies / mini quiches: chicken & leek; bacon & egg; corn & capsicum; curried apple and onion

Sweets

* apricot fudge

* mini muffins: mango yoghurt; blueberry & macadamia

and there's these mini pavlovas which are really cool-looking but which I acknowledge are really too fiddly but they look so cool that I haven't quite managed to convince myself yet to cross them off the list. So I might make them or I might not.

And that, plus a few other bits and pieces, (including mum's homemade strawberry punch, and dukkah and oil bread dip), was the afternoon tea directly after our ceremony.

Unfortunately, I was so busy - cutting the cake, taking photos, listening to the drums, smiling, and greeting greeting greeting - that I didn't get a single bite!  It was very good, from all accounts.

What a special thing, to have a friend like that.