FABBY: Apples for Two

Hello sweet friends!

        I just got back from our very long weekend at our daughter's house for grand Victoria's First Communion, which was last Saturday the 21 of Sept., 2013. Everything turned out fabulous and our young Victoria was extremely happy!

I will be posting about the First Communion after this post with the 'Apple Theme,' which I had ready for "Kathleen's new challenge, for Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen." I did a small table for the two of us with everything APPLE...right in our kitchen nook. I hope you like it!  Here goes...

My contribution to the challenge for 'Let's Dish at Cuisine Kathleen with the 'Apple Theme' has been by using green apples, green plates and green goblets. The table topper has some apples as well, although not green as I tried to incorporate specially the Green color in this tablescape. 

The dishes in green were all made back at our past Factory, including the Apple-green ones.

The tablecloth has a Fall look to it and some red apples in the print as well.

Rattan charger, white dinner plate, green and white entree plate.

Apple napkins on top of apple-green salad plates.

The bowl at your right, standing on leaves is for the soup.

I liked this tablecloth I had for the kitchen table, as it has a Fall look to the print, what with leaves, pumpkins and apples.

Late afternoon colors and I have lighted the stained glass sky light, here in the kitchen.

I love how the sky has streaks in blue shades and even a pink one; as it's 6:30 pm as I finished this tablescape before I went to my Victoria's First Communion.

Now, the following day I grabbed two apples and made this delicious 'Apple Pancake' Alejandro loves and for our lunch dessert...as I've mentioned before that we have a heavier lunch and a lighter dinner.

The Apple Pancake recipe follows:

       

Makes servings USMetricAdjust Recipe (Help)

• 4 eggs
• 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
•  
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup white sugar, divided
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 large tart apple - peeled, cored and sliced

       

Directions

1. In a large bowl, blend eggs, flour, baking powder, sugar and salt. Gradually mix in milk, stirring constantly. Add vanilla, melted butter and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg. Let batter stand for 30 minutes or overnight. (When I'm doing a dinner party I let it stand so it's ready from the day before, otherwise I don't)
2. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
3. Melt butter in a 10 inch oven proof skillet, (I use a cast-iron skillet) brushing butter up on the sides of the pan. In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup sugar, cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg. Sprinkle mixture over the butter. Line the pan with apple slices. (I use 2 small apples instead of just one).  Sprinkle remaining sugar over apples. Place pan over medium-high heat until the mixture bubbles, then gently pour the batter mixture over the apples.
4. Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) and bake for 10 minutes. Slide pancake onto serving platter and cut into wedges.

PS: This is great with vanilla ice cream too, on a hot day, or always, lol!

Thank you so much for your wonderful and kind visits, as you always make my day! I will also be a little late answering your precious comments from the before post, but, be sure I'll get to the last one!

Thank you gracious hostesses for having me at your great parties each week.


LOVE,
FABBY


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FABBY: Remembering Fall 2012

Hello sweet friends!

     Some photos to remember 'Fall of 2012 at Fabby's Living.' Maybe you'll remember some of these posts, because I didn't until I started to gather the photos and saw them, lol..  I know, I know...it's old age!

                   I'm off to my daughter's Sofia's house for my grand Victoria's First Communion. I will be back next Tuesday and will answer some of your lovely comments than. Thanks a ton!


Antique Belgium Fall buffet 2012.

                                                       Antique English buffet Fall 2012

Fall Mantel 2012.

Early Fall table scape 2012.

Tea table, Fall harvest 2012. All the way in the back there's pumpkin cake and fruit.

A little Halloween table for the three of us...mother, Alejandro and me. The cute 'blond witch' was my g'girl's Cayetana.

English buffet Fall 2012.

Halloween of 2012

My birthday vignette-Oct. 20, 2012

Thanksgiving table 2012

We will be leaving on a three hour drive to our daughter Sofia's house next Tuesday for our granddaughter Victoria's First Communion which will be held Saturday September 21st.
I won't post anything 'just created,' except for these past Fall decorations from 2012.

I will certainly come back home with lots of great photos from the event, as it's one of the most important celebrations in the life of Catholic children. Our Victoria is nine years old.


Thank you my dear friends for helping me reminisce last year's Fall posts, as you always make my day!

Thanking the lovely hostesses for their great parties and for having me.

LOVE,
FABBY


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FABBY: BLue and White Transferware Collection

Hello sweet friends!

     I've been collecting Blue and White English transfer-ware dinner plates and now I have twelve... thinking I would rather mix the complete red transfer-ware tea set for twelve and the serving pieces it came with it; pairing it with the blue and white, which is really Alejandro's favorite and I love it too.

 For a dinner party I'm using the blue and white dinner plates, which are all in different designs, 'they're not a set, they are a collection,' which I think it's more fun! I also had some  in the dinning room wall and eventually they came right down too, lol!

Anyway, here they are, I hope you like them as 'dinner plates.'

Dinner party for eight with my collection of blue and white English transfer-ware different dinner plates. The stemware is Italian.

Here is Liberty Hall, Staffordshire and I have three of these. I made the centerpiece with yellow flowers and sunflowers in order to make a 'tenious transition' to Fall; plus the fact that I love yellow with blue!

I started with silver pewter chargers, which have a classic English style to them. Than, again I used the blue ceramic chargers made at our past company, next came the blue-white transfer ware dinner plate and finally the red Cambridge-Old England transfer-ware salad plate. I used again the pretty blue glass stones napkin holders from my recent tablescape.

 Royal Mail...Staffordshire and I have two of these.

This one is an antique and you can hardly make out the Word 'England' in the back...and it's stoneware, because as you know, transfer-ware is 'pottery or ceramics.' Alejandro taught me about the different materials for dinner ware.

Another lovely Wedgwood one.

Vintage Woodland-Wedgwood.

This gorgeous one is my 'special guest', as it is a Delft-Holland porcelain one; as you know, treansfer-ware is not porcelain, it's pottery... but I loved it so much, it immediately came right down from my wall collection, lol!

I placed the red transfer-ware 'salad plates' on the side as bread plates for the pictures; just to appreciate the blue and white dinner plates.

A small silver pumpkin for a 'little Fall touch'.

My blue and white corner with my Meissen three tier server and 'some' blue and white wall plates...still have some!

The salad bowl is vintage English ironstone, I bought it more than three years ago.

The after dinner coffee or tea station and a red transfer-ware platter and small bowl in the back for servings, (at your left). I will put a flower vase later in this table too.

Now, I added the red teacup and saucer to the plate layers.

The wall at your right was filled with transfer plates mostly, (before the artwork was there) and some Dutch Delft, Chinese, Japanes, from our Factory, etc.; hanging up there...but since, the English transfer-ware have come down for serving food instead, lol!

For this picture I placed the salad plate on top of the blue one, as for the entree. At your left I placed a small bread pewter plate, which are a set with the big pewter chargers.

My yellow arrangement just to give the table a very subtle Fall touch.

White lace cutwork place mats...again!

Here you have it, my collection of some of the twelve 95% English blue transfer-ware dinner plates, as one is a Delft too.  Mind you, I will still continue my venture in collecting more blue pieces now, as is my hubby's favorite one to eat in.

Today is September 11, 2013 and a very special day to remember in NYCity and the day that changed history forever in the United States of America. Praying for all the people that lost loved one in such a tragic day and God bless America.


Thank you sweet friends for the wonderful comments you send me, as you always make my day!

Thanking the lovely and gracious hostesses for having me in their great parties.

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