A Celebration Day

A day to celebrate and what's better way to celebrate than with food.
 
The kick off was home made Manakeesh with fresh zaa'tar from Lebanon.
 
They turned out the best yet. I should start selling...

Celebration with food continued with a gracious invite by Shaktea to enjoy their culinary excellence afternoon tea.

The tea was served in special beautifully hand painted Thai cups. Trays of goodies came out with special bread and cheese sandwiches for dad along with all the regular fancy savoury and sweets.

Ultimate favourites today were the Tea Egg Sandwich, the Maple Pecan French Pastry, Shaktea Tea Truffle, and lemon cream petit four.

Thank you Shaktea ladies for such a treat.

At night a bottle of champagne was opened to celebrate the day, and emptied very quickly.

It was accompanied by a fancy steak & frites dinner.

The grill got active. Steaks marinated with a bit of olive oil for four hours and grilled to perfection. The French Fries followed a French recipe where they were soaked in water for 15 minutes and fried twice.

Simple grilled vegetables - asparagus, zucchini, eggplants - were added to the mix. All stomachs were well satisfied.

Butterfly cakes's recipe by JM - the blog's official scouse ambassador. 

A top hat cake variation produced by her charming daughter and delivered right in time for the celebrations.



Two versions were served - one with Meyer Lemon butter icing and the other with Demerara chocolate icing. Served with Shaktea's delicious Vanilla Honeybush tea.

Thank you dad, mom, Shaktea, JM, ES for making the celebration day so special.