Tabletop Tuesday Tea and a Mosaic

It was wild weather here last night.  So many are without power, and trees are down all over the place.  Floods galore…I am so thankful we have power, across the way is out.. I hope everyone is restored soon!

Perfect weather for a cup of tea, a Shamrock Brownie, and since the weather was so bad, a little scoop of ice cream..:)

 

The plate is Fitzgerald by Noritake..a deep green marble border with thick gold trim..

I sure miss the Noritake Outlet that I used to frequent! I wonder if they miss me?  :)

I am joining Mary at Little Red House for Mosaic Monday…

I am also joining Tabletop Tues at Marty’s

A Stroll Thru Life  and I am so happy to join Katherine  for the first time for tea at Lady Katherine’s Tea Parlor..and Wanda at The Plumed Pen for Tea for Two and Rhondi at Rose Colored Glasses …so many teas, Tuesday is Tea day for sure!

Please visit these lovely ladies to see some beautiful  blogs!

And for the last time, :)  I want to invite you to join the party here on the 16th…Mr. Linky will be on duty to accept your link…

2nd Annual St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl at Cuisine Kathleen's

Mar.16th..Please join in! Anything Irish..a table, a recipe, a poem, , whatever you'd like!

Thanks for sharing some time with me…

 

Foodie and Flashback Friday~It’s not Green Beer!

This pretty Irish Coffee glass is one of the four I won from Michael Lee at Designs by Gollum…the hostess of Foodie Friday..

Thank you, ML! I’ll be sure to think of your when I fill it with my virgin Irish Coffee..Mike will have his tainted with the devil Irish whiskey..:)

Here are a few desserts that lend themselves to the  ♣  season.

If you have a few pears, a frozen puff pastry and some preserves you can make this easy dessert…

Pear O’Tart

Slice your pears and toss in some sugar and cinnamon.

Arrange in a tart pan, and brush with some preserves, I used mango..

Bake till the crust is golden brown.  Serve with a dollop of fresh whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.  You can put it together in minutes thanks to the magic of frozen puff pastry.  :) 

The next is an Apricot Cream Coffee Cake…

 

St. Patapricot Cake :)

Here is the recipe, from Land O Lakes Country Heritage.
Coffee Cake Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup LAND O LAKES® Butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 LAND O LAKES™ All-Natural Farm-Fresh Eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

Filling Ingredients:
1/4 cup sugar
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 LAND O LAKES™ All-Natural Farm-Fresh Egg
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon peel
1 (12-ounce) jar apricot preserves
Glaze Ingredients:
1/3 cup powdered sugar
1 to 2 teaspoons lemon juice
Heat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour bottom and sides of 10-inch springform pan. Set aside.

Combine all coffee cake ingredients in large bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Spread batter on bottom and 2 inches up sides of prepared pan.
Combine all filling ingredients except apricot preserves in small bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed. Spread evenly over batter in pan. Spoon preserves evenly over filling.
Bake for 45 to 55 minutes or until crust is golden brown. Cool 20 minutes. Loosen sides of cake from pan by running knife around inside of pan; remove sides of pan.
Meanwhile, stir together powdered sugar and enough lemon juice for desired drizzling consistency in small bowl. Drizzle over warm coffee cake. Serve warm or cold; store refrigerated.

That’s it for tonight..
I am also joining Suzy at Kitchen Bouquet for Flashback Friday.

****Thank you for your kind words and emails about the dolls. ( previous post)

  I don’t know that my sister is interested in doing anymore than what she does locally, but if you are truly interested, email me and I will put you in touch with her directly.  The prayers are greatly appreciated!

2nd Annual St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl at Cuisine Kathleen's

Mar.16th..Please join in! Anything Irish..a table, a recipe, a poem, , whatever you'd like!

The Shamrocks are Coming…Hello Dolly ♣

Thank you for your birthday wishes and songs!  I loved them all!

I bought myself these dishes for my birthday.  Actually I bought them the  day I shopped with The Tablescaper, but tucked them away so I would be surprised for my birthday.  :)

TJMAXX…and they are four leaf clovers, not shamrocks….I know…

I started with a black tablecloth , then an off white and green check mat.

Matching napkins, and green cabbage bowls for the soup..

Green glass charger plates by Gorham that I got at Lenox..50% off, so they were 5.00.  They go perfectly with the glasses and this beautiful green glass cake plate from CTS..less than 4.00..can you believe that?

 

The Tablescaper gave me the beautiful matching platter for my birthday..Thank you, A.!

I used dark green stems with a bee on them from CTS…

 

And the pretty Irish coffee glasses I won at Designs by Gollum..Thank you ML!

Ceramic shamrock with wipe off marker as a place marker..

I used carnations as the centerpiece the first time…

But then I felt bad for Paddy.  His cousin starred in a table of Susan’s…so I let him take center stage..

I removed the check mats, and put him in the middle and added black stem glasses…

Well, that concludes Irish tables..except for the one for the party on the 16th..you are coming, aren’t you?  I set in the dining room so we would have more room..:) 

And now for the doll part.

My  dear sister makes these.  She has made 100’s over the years.  Like this Irish one, or the traditional Raggedy Ann or Andy.

 

She hand embroiders the face and puts the name on the pocket for Ann, and collar for Andy…The hair is done by hand also.

They are beautiful..I still have the Andy she made for my son over 30 years ago…a wonderful memento..

She sells them and donates all the money to charity.

Or donates them to charities for a raffle…

She is an amazing woman.  Her son was hit by a car and killed when he was 18, and her dear  little grandson is seriously disabled due to a lack of oxygen when he was an infant.  With all that heartache, she still has such compassion for others, and is so charitable…

If you have an little prayer in you for her little guy,Thomas,  I know she would love it..

Thanks for visiting, and please visit Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for more tables Wed. night..

I hope to see you for Gollum’s Foodie Friday..

Tabletop Tuesday

I am joining Marty at A Stroll thru Life for Tabletop Tuesday..

Just a few of my Irish things..

 

This is a Peggy Karr plate.  Do you know about her?  I didn’t either until a few years ago.  My friend, Cynthia, has a huge collection of them..amazing collection, and got us all interested.. If you look closely you can find the four leaf clover…see it??

Check out all the amazing designs.  I have one rectangle plate, and one that Cynthia sent me…

http://www.a-zdesigns.com/

I wish she would do a guest post here and show you her collection!

I made some Popovers for you…Some Northern hospitality…:)

I made them in a molten lava pan…I got the recipe here, Carol’s , There’s Always Thyme to Cook… via Ina I believe..

With some butter and jam?  Blueberry from Trader Joe’s..

Have a cup of tea, too…Always time to have tea with a friend..:)

Yesterday was my birthday and I bought myself some cooking/table related gifts…I always know just what to get me!

I’ll show them to you soon!

Thanks for coming…and I renewed my membership with Mr. Linky today, so he better be ready for the party on the 16th.. Hope you are coming!

Foodie and Flashback Friday

 

I am joining Designs by Gollum for Foodie Friday, and Suzy at Kitchen Bouquet for Flashback Friday..

I posted this recipe last year, just in time for your Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner.

I still cook some wedges for those who like it the traditional boiled way, but always make a big pan of this..

Cabbage, onions and bacon..

Fry some strips of bacon .  Remove the bacon.

Pour off some of the fat.

Slice a large onion into thin slices.

Fry it in the bacon drippings.

Cut your cabbage into fine strips

Add the cabbage with salt, pepper, and a few good shakes of dry mustard powder, and stir fry .

Break the slices of bacon and crumble on the top, serve with your corned beef..

My recipe for Irish Soda Bread is here…

Have a wonderful weekend!

Hope you are joining in on the 16th!

2nd Annual St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl at Cuisine Kathleen's

Mar.16th..Please join in! Anything Irish..a table, a recipe, a poem, , whatever you'd like!

G is for Green~Plaid Tablescape

I am joining Jenny Matlock for Alphabet Thursday and Susan for Tablescape Thursday.  and at Holiday Haven...Thank you Gals for hosting….This week we must feature the letter G..

My friend, Ellen, is a Great Gal.  She is a Genius at sewing and saves her husband George,  Gobs of $$$$ by making all her drapes and slipcovers. 

She Generously gave me some rolls of Gorgeous fabric.

She could have sold it at a Garage sale. but she Gifted it to me instead. Thank you Ellie, for your Generosity!

I started with this black plaid wool with a  thin stripe of Green, yellow and red.

I layered an off white Irish placemat , a black plate and a off white lacey salad plate.

I Gathered a Green napkin with an off white ribbon, a fresh shamrock..from this plant my friend Audrey gave me last St. Patrick’s Day….

And some Gypsophilia (Baby’s Breath)

A candle Globe from  Galway Glass..

Individual Glass butter domes from WSonoma outlet.

Glasses with black stems from PfaltzGraff..

My centerpiece is a  Gigantic Belleek mug filled with Greenery and fresh white mums .

Our 7 Grain bread will go in another Gift with an Irish Greeting…

For dinner we will Graze on Chicken Kerry Gold.. Garnished with Green parsley…

G is for GRATEFUL..what I am to you for visiting!

Hope you are Gearing up for the Grand and Glorious St. Patrick’s Day Party here on the 16th~ ♣♣♣Everyone is invited!

Snowy Sunday Brunch~ Tabletop Tuesday.

So something different, snow…

I had a panettone wrapped in the frig..it is great for French toast…on an Irish themed table…

ITALIAN sweet bread made into  FRENCH toast , IRISH cloth..how continental…:)

Here’s the cloth…shamrocks, four leaf clovers, please don’t confuse the two.:), and for a pop of red..lady and gentleman bugs!

 

Shamrock napkins and wood napkin rings I made..

Little pop of red with the butter dishes, which are mini lion’s head bowls…to match the bugs…

 

Those all over blogland Gibson dishes, a little green Ireland teapot from my dear friend Audrey..little white pitcher from Pfaltzgraf.

The white outside, why that is snow, courtesy of Mother Nature..

You know Panettone, right?

 

Dip in your egg mixture, fry, serve with fruit and breakfast sausage..

 

No fresh fruit..because of that four letter word I didn’t get to the store..but it was still good! :)

I know some of you remember Paddy from last year.  See that little shamrock? 

It is covering a little rubber bullet hole he got while in the IRA.  :)  Because of that, the manager at TJMAXX let me adopt him for $4.00 instead of 12. 

Don’t say anything about it in front of him though. His cousin starred in a table over at Susan’s, and he feels a bit inferior..:)

He’s hoping you will all join in the St. Patrick’s Day blog crawl here on the 16th.  Please boost  his self esteem and join in!

Oh, and stop over at our hostess Marty’s  A Stroll thru Life for more tabletops…

Thanks!  ♣♣♣