Today we have been doing one of the things we love most, experimenting in the kitchen. Trying out new flavours and combinations. Scanning through recipes that others have shared online or in books and seeing how we can add a streetgrowers twist to these things.
This is not just an adventure that we experience alone as we have a group of 10 or more friends coming over tomorrow for an afternoon tea tasting session. So all of the wonders we have conjured today will be laid out for them to try and the afternoon tea menu looks a little like this at the moment:
- Scones with a choice of jams including; strawberry and vodka, raspberry and vanilla, orange and cointreau, cranberry and orange or plum and toffee vodka.
- Mini English tea muffins toasted.
- Rustic wholemeal bread
- Selection of cheeses and cured meats
- Selection of chutneys including apple and pear, spicy tomato and apple, cranberry and apple with port, pear and onion with brandy
- Filo wraps with salmon, prawn and tomato
- Filo wraps with crab and home made chilli sauce
- Courgette and chocolate cake
- Boiled fruit and orange and cointreau loaf
- Baileys fudge
- Mini toffee apple bites
Lets not forget all of this is home made by us, apart from the filo pastry and the cheese and meat selections of course.
It is very rewarding that several friends who cannot come tomorrow RSVPed by saying how upset they are that they are busy with Paralympic events on the day and demanded to know when the next taste event would be!
So where is the risk in all of this...well here it comes. Being that these are friends coming over tomorrow and its lovely to catch up with their summer events we obviously dont charge them to come, but tomorrow they have a task to complete:
Following the afternoon tea they are asked to please go to this blog and add a comment giving your views on the food you have eaten, the flavours, quality, textures, in fact the whole afternoon tea experience.
This is a live blog and no comments are vetted first so the risk is in us receiving comments that may not be favourable and the world will see them, but hey if you can't be honest about your products then you can't be proud of them we reckon.!
So roll on Friday when we all will see how we got on.
Will they be ble to drive home with the alcoholic content of your scrumptious sounding produce on the menu? A woman once got pulled up by the police and failed a breathalyser from eating a trifle with too much sherry in it!
ReplyDeleteWe hope they will all be taking the safe route home on foot or by bus..!
ReplyDeleteA truly great tasting event from the 'Streetgrowers'. The great selection of chutneys and my personal favorite, spicy tomato and apple go great with brie. Followed by a great selection of filo pastries. Both the Salmon and crab were crammed with flavors.
ReplyDeleteThe fruit, orange and Cointreau loaf and the courgette and chocolate cake was amazing. Most waterlingly good.
Good luck guys in your venture, the afternoon was a great success, not necessarily to my waistline!!