FABBY: Happy Mother's Day Ladies!

Hello dear Friends!

      Our DD Alexandra's engagement party was wonderful!
We had a fabulous time with so much family from both sides, you see, my daughter's fiancée is first cousin to Alejandro's first cousins on his mother's side. All in the family, so hubby knew this family forever and his future son in law since he was a young boy.

We are also very excited to announce that our dearest daughter is also pregnant three months. We can't wait to find out what she is going to have.
 
Our future son in law is divorced and has three adult kids, starting at 25, 22 and 16. He had married young; but just the same he is very excited with the new baby.

We will be alone with my mother this Sunday, as my both DDs will be out of town and Alexandra is going to live in Madrid, Spain.

This is how my table will be for Mother's Day 2015. I'm using mother's "Wawel-Polish" dishes she gifted me almost three years ago.

Wishing you, your daughters, your Dil's and if you are lucky, your own mothers, a truly wonderful, happy and blessed " Mother's Day 2015."

Mother gifted me with this lovely Polish set of eight china.
I can remember her always having it in NY and using it at many occasions all the time back then.

Therefore, in mother's honor I used her pretty Polish china for this Sunday, Mother's Day.

I placed some feminine figurines all around the table and here is the first, a country girl making potato dumplings.
I'd like to add that these adorable figurines were made back at our own "Ceramic Co., Monte Turi" by hand and by a very talented artist.

Another country girl is weaving the famous Panama hats, that are made here in Ecuador.

This is another country girl carrying water buckets from a near by water well-lol...

A dove sitting on a tree brunch and rose.
Red roses as a centerpiece.

For Mother's Day 2015 setting I used two chargers. The glass gold one is Turkish and it's quite large...and the second one is a cobalt blue ceramic charger made back at our 'Ceramic Factory' as well.

My mother's china is 'WAWEL-POLAND.'

I love the pretty dainty little blue flowers embossed on white porcelain... plus the shape of the plates and and the silver rim.

Since we love champagne we had some left over from our DD Alexandra's engagement party last Saturday, so we'll drink some on MD... and a little white wine mother likes too.
 



The glasses are etched by hand and are Viennese.
I have two sets of these Italian Venetian stems in two styles. Here I'm sharing the tall set, which includes the flutes.

A couple of silver candle holders.

The plate stack. Gold Turkish glass charger, ceramic cobalt blue charger and the Polish china.



The happy couple, Sergio and Alexandra.

The lovely friends that follow me know that Alejandro bought this vintage French table a year ago for our breakfast room and the one with the marble top we had was sent to DD Alex who now is renting her beautiful apartment furnished to some diplomats.

"I wish you all sweet and kind ladies from blog land a wonderful happy and very blessed Mother's Day with all your family females."

"The same goes for all the lovely hostesses I will be joining their great parties this Mother's Day weekend."

Thank you so much.

LOVE,
FABBY


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FABBY: Girls Night Out

Hello sweet friends!

     My DD Alexandra is getting engaged this Saturday and we are making a reception at a beautiful restaurant for sixty family members from both sides; so I am very busy, but, Kathleen knows I just cannot miss one of her challenges and so I quickly thought I'd love to use my new Oriental dishes our siblings gave us for our 40th. Anniversary dinner party.

Trying to meet the challenge has relaxed me from all I'm doing and the guests I'm having; to the point of making me smile and enjoyed setting it with my new dishes, that are making a 'debut' for the first time.

Since they're blue and white, our fav combo, I also paired them with my red rimmed Oriental dinner plates.

With that said, here is my quick table, specially with my adorable Asian girls, that are out in town for a Chinese dinner.
 
I used to call them Christine and Chie, until lovely Vel showed up (for our luck), at our 'little blog community,' but couldn't make it...shocks!...maybe next time for sure!




My two lovely Asian girls on center stage for "Kathleen's Ladies Night Out Challenge."

My red dinner plates were bought at Macy's, NYC in 1980 with different blue, white and red pieces; but for this challenge I just couldn't help myself than to pair them with the 'new' Asian dishes for eight place settings we received from all our siblings for our 40th. Anniversary dinner party last March 11th.

Aren't they beautiful! I love the pattern of the blue and white dishes and they have many, many pieces more I haven't shared tonight.

The soup bowls with lids are so pretty, and the lid is used for putting the rice.
 
There's oriental spoons and a cute little bowls for sauces. The big serving bowls also have serving spoons in porcelain to match.

Love this floral blue and white pattern on the dishes.

The china is very thin, you can see through them!

Of course, the girls are having some Jasmine tea during and after dinner in this adorable mugs with lids.

In the backdrop you can see the tea setting in the pull out tray some antique pieces have, such as our Belgium buffet here... and our grandgirls love to play tea time on it too, lol..

Love the mugs with lids, which they gave us eight of them too, along with a bigger teapot. Here I'm using the smaller one mother gave me this past C'mas.

This small lacquered tea chest was my Mil's; she always had some jewelry in it, though.

Asian antique teaset and teacups.  Serving pieces from our old china as background.

Here you have it, my "Girls Night Out Challenge at Kathleen's, Cuisine Kathleen."

'Ladies Night Out-Let's Dish Challenge'    www.cuisinekathleen.com 
Thanks Kathleen for hosting.

Thank you so much for your sweet and kind visits my friend, you always make my day!

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

LOVE,
FABBY

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FABBY: Tea with a Friend

Hello my sweet friends!

     My life has and it's been so busy lately, I can't even answer your kind comments on my last table-post...but I will for sure after this week.

You see, my DD Alexandra is getting engaged this Saturday and it's been a last minute thing, although it was expected. Therefore, we are gathering lots of family, about 70 to help us celeb on a beautiful restaurant. 

The other day a good friend of mine announced me a tea in the afternoon visit.
I baked a delish cake and I had tenderloin slices for sandwiches, plus cheese and home made jam she likes.

This is what my simple little tea table looked like.

Now I'm off to prepare food for my DD and her fiancée for the following days, you see, they live in Madrid, Spain. My DD Sofia is also coming from out of town.





Here is my little tea in the afternoon I fixed for me and a good friend who announced me a visit the same day.

Home made jam. The cake is called 'The Best Homemade Pound Cake.'
Recipe is at the end of this post and you can pin it, if you wish.
It's very easy and yummy!

Recipe of yummy cake is at the end of this post if you would like to pin it... as it is from Pinterest.

My tea chest at the back and some white chocolate Bombons.

I love this tea chest a friend made for me several years ago...with a pewter design on top.

We also had tenderloin sandwiches on 'croissants' with cheese. 
Sometimes just with homemade jam with the 'croissants only.'

 

The afternoon was very dark as it rains everyday here because of the Spring season and flowers are blooming and gardens look gorgeous.

...and this is what happened after the rain, the most gorgeous 'rainbows' came out and I could take this pic for you as I was in main street at the time, in the historical part of 'Cuenca, Patrimony of the World.'


Thank you so much my dearest sweet girls, you know you make my day with your kind visits.

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

LOVE,
FABBY


"THE BEST HOMEMADE POUND CAKE"

Ingredients

1. 1/2 cup butter
2. 2 large eggs (or 3 medium eggs)
3. 1/2 cup sour cream
4. 1 1/2 cups flour
5. 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
6. 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
7. 1 cup sugar
8. 1/2 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
9. Toasted Slivered almonds  (optional)

Instructions

1. Let eggs, butter, and sour cream come to room temperature (about 45 minutes)
2. In a mixing bowl, beat the butter with the eggs and sour cream.
3. Add remaining ingredients and beat just until well mixed.
4. Pour batter into a greased and floured loaf pan (or a 9 by 9 inch square)
5. Bake in a 325 degree oven for 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes clean.
6. Cool before serving.
7.  
8. "VERY EASY and delish, indeed!"

 

 

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FABBY: OMG, Another Dinner Party !

Hello sweet friends!

            OMG, another dinner party, for sure!

We decided on entertaining again, as we had to reciprocate to some more friends and yes, we do have lots of wonderful friends; so, since we made the dinner party to celeb our 40th. I haven't stopped the 'entertaining at home situation' lol..

I had sixteen friends, or eight couples including us for a dinner party, last night.

My menu was: Some horderves, such as a crab dip and some small hand pies.

The entré was a favorite of ours, nice, light in calories and simply delish, 'Zucchini Lasagna,' I've been making for a very long time, and the recipe came out from an old 'Good Housekeeping Magazine;' long before Internet or Pinterest was around! The recipe is at the end of this post, as it's great, low calorie and simply marvelous!

I've been making buffet dinners and serving it on top of my foyer's vintage French marble table, directly from the chafing dishes, as I've shown in my other posts.

Ok, here are the two tables I created for the dinner party last night. Hope you like them.

Some of the friends that follow me might remember I bought this Mandala Indian topper and it was too short in length for my large table, so I took it to my alterations lady and she cut a long strp from the sides, added it, sewed back the elephants and voilá!
She created a long table topper out of this lovely pattern.

I copied catted this apple and flower centerpiece from my Pinterest board; "Centerpieces of Various Styles and Seasons"

I loved it when I saw it with green apples, but I used the red ones because had I arranged it with the green ones, I was afraid it would look perfect for C'mas and with the red tablecloth.

The tablecloth is actually sort of a creamy-ivory color background, therefore, I used my reticulated ivory chargers, my dear Mil's vintage ivory china and the ivory flatware to sort of blend this kind of happy table, along with the linen ivory napkins.

I paired two different sets of Viennese hand etched glasses here.

The place set as I did it.

I love the long edge of the tablecloth with the elephants running thru it.

I also decorated the round breakfast vintage French table to sit six people, as between the two tables we were sixteen total.

I decided on mixing my two black and white china sets for six that I have. Here is the one place set.
 
I did buy them a few years ago with this idea in mind and I always set them together for Father's Day.

Here is the other mixed place set.

I always make a tea or coffee setting for after dinner and for this evening I chose my red transferware as opposed to my Mil's antique teacups from her china.

The stemware here was also my Mil's and it's French and they come in three different sizes.

Thank you so much sweet and kind friends for visiting me, you so make my day every time!

Thanking the lovely hostesses for having me at their great parties.
A special thanks to the generous and supportive ladies that have recently featured me.

Kathy for "A BOUQUET OF TALENT LINKY PARTY"
Angel for "WAKE UP WEDNESDAY LINKY PARTY"

LOVE,
FABBY

ZUCCHINI LASAGNA

2 very large zucchini, about 1 pound each
1 cup chopped onion
1 tsp. minced garlic
3 Tbls. olive oil
1-16-ounce jar chunky spaghetti sauce
15 ounces ricotta cheese
8 ounce mozzarella cheese, grated
2 eggs
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 tsp. dried basil
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
Basil sprigs for garnish

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil.
Cut zucchini lengthwise into 1/8 inch-thick slices.
Parboil in three batches, 5 to 6 minutes.
Remove from pot and drain well on paper towels.

In heavy saucepan, sauté onion and garlic in olive oil over medium high heat until soft but not brown, 6 to 8 minutes.
Add spaghetti sauce. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile combine ricotta and half of the mozzarella, eggs, parsley, basil, salt and pepper in large bowl. Blend with a wooden spoon.

Preheat oven to 375F.  Butter an  11x9x2 inch baking pan. Spoon a thin layer of sauce in bottom of pan. Cover with slices of zucchini, overlapping slightly. (cut to fit).  Spread 1/2 cup of sauce over zucchini. Top with half ricotta-cheese mixture.
Repeat a layer of zucchini, sauce and cheese mixture.
Finish with a layer of zucchini and remaining sauce.
Sprinkle remaining mozzarella cheese on top.

Bake in preheated oven 40 to 45 minutes until cheese is melted and golden brown. Let stand 10 minutes before serving. Cut into squares.
Garnish with basil sprigs if you want.

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