Foodie Friday: Day 3 of Gathering in the Garden

 

 Welcome to Foodie Friday

and

Day 3 of the Novel Bakers' Garden Party Week.

 

Jain, Mari, Mary, and I have been blending books and food again. This week, we've presented a darling book, Gathering in the Garden by Shelley Snow and Elaine Husband, two Nashville artists and authors.

Their recipes and party ideas have enchanted the four of us, and we hope you will enjoy

our interpretation of this charmer. It's 139 pages, small enough to tuck into your pocketbook when you dash off to the market or the beach. The pages are crammed with idea after idea. Many are illustrated, making your imagination soar.

 

For our third and final post, I made up my own party: Moving-Into-Autumn picnic

celebrating the color purple.

 

Our special guests include the Fabulous Ducks of Rattlebridge . . .

 

 

 . . . and the fashion forward scarecrow, Minnie Pause.

Today, Minnie just stepped off the runway, sporting a Kravet boucle jacket, Burberry dress with a ruched bodice, and tartan Wellingtons.

Her hair was styled at the Farm Fresh Salon.

I just finished photographing a little while ago--I've been running behind all summer!

I've been under the weather with tick bites and West Nile, so Bandwidth pitched in and helped

lift the heavy furniture--he also made biscuits and did a little Duck Whispering.
Thank you, Bandy!

 

On the menu:

Fried Chicken (from the Publix deli--we love it)

Ham and Creamy Biscuits (Bandwidth's recipe)

Green Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing (from the book)

Oatmeal Cookies (Slice 'n Bake)

 

 

 

Bandwidth's Buttermilk Biscuits

 

2 cups self-rising flour, sifted

1/4 cup unsalted butter (chilled)

1 tablespoon shortening (Crisco)

2/3 cups buttermilk

 

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.

Sift flour. Cut butter and shortening into the flour with a pastry cutter.

Turn out onto a lightly floured board. Knead pastry three times.

Roll out (gently) and cut out biscuits.

Spray PAM  on a cookie sheet.

Now place biscuits on the sheet.

Bake 10 minutes. Remove from oven and add slices of fried country ham.

 

 

Green Fruit Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

 

For each individual salad you need:
1 salad plate

1 curly lettuce leaf

3 slices kiwi, peeled

1 cluster green grapes

5 scoops honeydew

4 slices green pear

4 slices green apple

fresh mint
green cherries (optional)

 

I added culinary lavender and chopped pecans.
Arrange the fruit on a lettuce leaf. In addition to using a melon baller on the honeydew, I used leaf cookie cutters to hopefully evoke the changing season.

 

Drizzle fruit with:

 

Honey Lime Dressing

1/2 cup honey

1/2 cup lime juice

Whisk honey and juice. Drizzle over salad.

 

This is ambrosial, sweet and fresh, perfectly balanced. I added green

coconut on one salad, and it looked strange, so I ate it. (Of course!)

Even with the green coconut, this dressing is sublime.

I hope you'll try this salad!

 

 

 

Thank goodness we have a Publix grocery.

 

 

 

 

Slice 'n Bake Oatmeal Raisin cookies were cooled and slipped into purple organza pouches.

 

 

The Rattlebridge Duck gang stayed with us the whole afternoon,

drinking water, eating bread, and grooming.

 

We made spice cookies, too. They're in the kitchen...come on inside and let's visit.

 

Three days this week, the Novel Bakers have cooked their way through the delightful book,

Gathering in the Garden.

 

Monday, September 2nd

Today, Wednesday, September 4th

Foodie Friday, September 6th
 

 Catch up with the marvelous Mari, Mary, and Jain:

 Once Upon a Plate

Home Is Where the Boat Is

a quiet life

 

Resources: 

Gathering in the Garden



 

 

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