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The next day, we had seven dear friends visit us for an afternoon tea. As I wrote earlier, we had been preparing for a week in advance. When I’m hosting, I certainly don’t want to have too little food prepared, so we always end up with way more left-overs than we had anticipated, because of course we have way too much food…

We started off with toast with baked assorted mushrooms and various spreads, along with a cup of mushroom bouillon.

The next course were ‘crudite’ (rettich and carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes) with a sesame dip. We also had double sandwiches filled with a vegetable cream: shredded red cabbage and carrot mixed with thick yoghurt with some herbs and spices — those were more delicious than we had anticipated, and they looked very colourful! We had also made potato curry sandwiches that we grilled freshly. Those were nicely spicy, especially with some chutney spread on top!

For the sweet course, we had gotten a box of scones and I had made lemon curd. I had also tried to make clotted cream — I tried four different recipes and none of them worked out for me! So in the end we ended up buying the clotted cream after all. But we put that in a bowl and whisked it loose a bit, with a drop of vanilla essence added for a smoother taste. This was the most popular dish, but we also had strawberry and cherry jam for those who would prefer something sweet instead of sour. We also baked chocolate danish for this course.

And then for dessert, we had panna cotta again — coffee flavour, at the request of klik. And for those who were still hungry after all that, we had a large plate of cookies afterward — though as you can imagine, we were left with a lot of cookies!

It was wonderful to celebrate, surrounded with friends!

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