Cook Book Challenge : Egg Pin Wheels for an Afternoon Tea Dinner

Theme 7 : Eggs

CookBook : The Dairy Book of Home Cookery by Sonia Allison 

for the Milk Marketing Board of England and Wales

Recipe : Pin Wheel Sandwiches

With my Hubby and his family originally from England, we were all excited for the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.  My mother in law came over for dinner but instead of eating dinner I prepared an afternoon tea affair.  The cookbook I used actually belong to Hubby's Nan in England.  She let me keep it during our holiday there a few years back.  This version was published in 1978 and as you can see it's been well used.  To this day, my mother in law still cooks dishes that she got from it.

Pin wheel sandwiches shows up regularly in afternoon teas, alongside other fabulous finger foods, sweet and savoury.  It can be filled with any filling you like.  I chose Egg.  

Tea is, of course, compulsory though coffee can also make an appearance.  I even took out our special Harrods tea towel just for the occasion.

Other dishes I also prepared for the Afternoon Tea Dinner :

My Afternoon tea table

Salmon sandwiches and cheese and cucumber sandwiches

Victoria Sponge Cake

After dinner, Hubby made Pimm's Deuce.  

Recipe :

4 hard boiled eggs, peeled and chopped

2 tbs mayonnaise or salad cream

1/2 tsp English mustard powder

salt and pepper

6 white or brown bread slices, crusts removed

butter

alfa alfa

1.  In a bowl, place the eggs, mayonnaise or salad cream, English mustard powder salt and pepper.  Set aside

2.  Using a rolling pin, roll over a slice of bread to flatten.

3.  Spread with butter and 1 - 2 tablespoons of the egg mixture.

4. Sprinkle alfa alfa over the egg mixture.

5.  Roll tightly to enclose the filling.  Place on place, seam side down.

6.  Repeat with the remaining of the egg mixture.

7.  Refrigerate for 30-60 minutes to firm up a little

8.  Cut into 3 or 4 even slices.  (as you can see, I didn't cut them evenly hehe)

 Check out my previous posts on this year's cookbook challenge.

Bon Appetite,
Cherrie

Christmas Eve Feast 2010 in Pictures

STARTERS:

Country Pate I made three days before Christmas Eve

Hubby made Nachos with his infamous chilli.  You can get his recipe here.

My de-constructed prawn cocktail

Peking Duck 

MAIN DINNER:

Roast Turkey.  I also had a Coke glazed Ham but somehow I don't have any photos of it

 

Now that's a drumstick!

Prawns waiting to be roasted in the oven 

 

Pigs in a blanket

Steamed green beans with butter

Honey glazed Carrots

My Newphew made a mocktail called Summer breeze that we had when we were all at Lindeman Island

DESSERT: 

I made Christmas cake balls inspired by Bakerella

Sister in law made buttersnap cups 

My mum made Puto Maya.  This is a traditional Filipino sweet dish made of glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and coated with fresh grated coconut and sugar.

My brother, @MrEdwardPuzon made his much-loved Trifle.

I also made an Angel Food cake with cream cheese and berries.

Photos taken by @MrJamesMoore and @MrEdwardPuzon

Bon Appetite,

Cherrie

Hambuger Cupcakes for the Birthday Boy

This weekend was mine and my little Man's Birthday weekend.  It was a weekend full of eating and family.  As mentioned in preivious posts, my son and I share the same birthday.  His birthday this year is a milestone.  He turned 1.  So most of my focus was on his birthday.  Anyway, who wants to celebrate turning *cough* thirty something *cough*

I decided to make Hamburger cupcakes for him.  I saw these more than a year ago and have been wanting to me them since.  I made them last week for my nephew/Godson.  You can see pics here.  Hubby suggested that I make them again for Thomas this week.

I made it easy on myself and used cake mixes and pre-made fondant icing.  I used orange flavoured cake for the buns, brownies for the meat pattie, butter icing coloured green for the lettuce and strawberry jam for the tomato sauce.  By all means, make your cake from scratch along with the icing but the assembling the "hamburger" was the enjoyable part.

It was  fun to make but the best part was seeing people's faces when the cupcakes were revealed.  I made a larger one for my son's first taste of cake.  He managed to eat most of it.  It was joy to watch.

Happy 1st Birthday Thomas!

Family Celebration : A big day for Thomas

Last Sunday was a big day for our family.  It was the day my son, Thomas was Baptised.

My son was definitely a star on the day.  He didn't cry during the ceremony and most importantly didn't cry when he was getting baptised with the holy water.  I think he knew the significance of the moment and was quietly taking it all in.

The star of the feast was the lechon.(whole suckling pig).  I was so excited about eating this.  When dad walked through the door carrying the pig there were lots of "oooh" and "aaahh"s from the guests.

Roast pig.  YUM! The meat was tender and flavourful.  The skin was so crispy

For hor d'oeuvres : salad wrapped in  prosciutto with honey and mustard dressing and prawn cocktail.

Pancit (Filipino noodles)

Potato Scallops

Pizza Pie 

Fried rice made by Sis-in-law

For dessert, I asked a few family members to bring something.

lime tart made by mum-in-law

butterscotch snaps with caramel topping made by another sis-in-law

delicious trifle made by my brother @MrEd2U

An Indonesian cake made by Thomas' Godmother

I made red velvet cake and decorated the Baptism cake.

Photographs by  @MrEd2U and @MrJamesMoore