Every year my good friend, Gina, has a Christmas Tea. It is her gift to some of her closest friends. She sets her table with her beautiful china and glasses, she cooks up a storm, creating the perfect tea foods, and she lays it all out in this beautiful way. She has several different types of herbal tea for us to sample, which is something one doesn't get to do very often. We feel like elegant English ladies being completely pampered. Gina's daughters act as little waitresses, while we talk and laugh and just have a great time. This year I took some pictures, although I missed some, and my shots hardly do anything justice. It was really much prettier.
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| The table setting. As you can see, we each have a peppermint stick to stir into our herbal tea. Yummm. |
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| On the bottom tray were cucumber sandwiches on crust-less bread, and Hawaiian rolls with egg salad. |
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| fruit cups with fresh whipped cream. The glasses in back were filled with water, and just a touch of herbal tea to add color, but not really flavor. |
I didn't get a picture of my favorite, which was an amazing tomato bisque soup. It was sooooo good! She also made scones and a beautiful lemon custard to go on top. The tea was really good too. She had the best brands you can buy. One was sort of chocolate flavored! Everything was delicious. We each had just a bit of everything, but it was enough to fill us up.
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| Little ciche cups (in back) and baguette with fresh mozzerella, basil leef and sated veggies on top. A-MA-ZING!!! |
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| Kristy, Brittany, Lisa, Joyce, Marie Gina, Sarah, and Lara |
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After the tea we did an ornament exchange, where you could steal from each other, just like a white elephant game. The afternoon was wonderful. I really love each of these ladies. I feel extremely blessed to live here and have so many wonderful friends.
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