Don't Put All Your Eggs In One Basket For Foodie Friday

Oh my goodness, it's time for Foodie Friday again! Jump on over to Designs by Gollum to check out the fun and food and frolic!

Chicken and eggs for breakfast .... why not? We'll all need our strength for the upcoming mad dash to Thanksgiving.  Join everyone over at Designs by Gollum for Foodie Friday to pick up some choice decorating and food tips!

Vintage tablecloth decked out in "Square" Post 86 Fiesta Sunflower, Scarlet and Ivory. Licensed "Brights" glassware, Dansk flatware, and roses from my garden.

The "egg-basket" is vintage and is collapsible and stores flat.  It may have been meant to be a salad dryer, but I've always used it for eggs.

Speaking of salad dryers, my new favorite TV show for this season is Man Shops Globe and Keith found a wonderful salad dryer on last night's program.  Catch it on Sundance Wednedays! In the weekly intro he states he has the world's best job and after watching a half dozen episodes, I would have to agree with him.

Nothing earth shattering in this week's recipe file, but I will share a simple recipe I cut out of an ad decades ago for Blender Hollandaise ...... no fail, takes 3 minutes and the raves just roll in. Use it for steak, eggs Benedict, over steamed veggies or as DH suggested a few nights ago, "Could I just have it in a mug and drink it???"

I use extra large eggs, more than a dash of freshly ground pepper and more lemon than is called for. Add a couple tablespoons of freshly chopped tarragon for a faux Bernaise to top off your favorite steak.

Multi Colored Parrots

This vintage cloth is very versatile and these are a few variations I did in trying out different colors that might work with it.

Quatro (aka Quattra, Quattro, Quatra) Post 86 Fiesta on its own.  The pewter bowl is Mexican.

Post 86 Sapphire

Post 86 Fiesta in Seamist, Sapphire and Scarlet

Post 86 Fiesta in Scarlet.  The glass bowl is from the Lancaster "Cane Landrum" line from the 1930s, named for the caned design in the bottom of the bowl.

Post 86 Fiesta in Seamist and Yellow, the bowl is a vintage HLC salad bowl known as the "Scale Bowl."  It was modeled in April of 1935, is fairly easy to find and comes with a variety of different decals in the center.

The Brimfield Birdie and The Little Round Table

This is the tale of The Brimfield Birdie and The Little Round Table.  A fellow collector attended the last Brimfield show of the year mid-week and spotted this Metlox Poppytrail Console Set, but without cell phone coverage she couldn't contact me until she returned home.  Lots of back and forth and it was still in the dealer's booth when she returned to Brimfield on Saturday.  Yippee!!  It is just lovely and in fine condition. 

Dish Friends Are the Best!

Vintage tablecloth with matching napkins shown with Vintage Turquoise fruit bowls, Post 86 Ivory and Yellow, Deauville flatware, vintage Homer Laughlin pitcher, and contemporary glassware from Macy's.

The roses are the Hybrid Tea 'Dainty Bess'

Tropical Yucca for Squares - Susan's Tablescape Thursday

I am so happy to be participating in Susan's Tablescape Thursday, check out all the participants over at Between Naps On The Porch and join the fun.

 
Scarlet and Sunflower Square Post 86 Fiesta, with Shamrock salad plates on a vintage tablecloth and an arrangement from the garden.  Cityscape flatware, vintage glassware.

Lobelia cardinalis 'Queen Victoria' are the red, with Tanacetum vulgare - Curly Tansy, Yucca gloriosa - Spanish Dagger, and Polystichum minutum - Western Sword Fern.

Change of glassware to contemporary from Home Goods, but I ended up going with the vintage afterall.

Pomegranates in September '08

Here's a favorite tablecloth with pomegranates from my garden last Fall. Shamrock and Yellow Post 86 Fiesta, with Cityscape flatware and contemporary glassware, napkins, and napkin rings from Home Goods.

 


Punica granatum
Pomegranate, Granate Apple
'Wonderful' is the cultivar
Immature fruit in late Spring and early Summer, below.