Lenten tea
Someone else is already bringing the bagels, 
Yeah, yeah, fruit and veggies with hummus dip....I'm thinking something else but what??????? |
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| do you have dates or figs available?
Usually I add blue cheese or goat cheese to the center but for right now you can omit that....cut dates in half wrap piece of procuietto around it and heat through..(when not in lent add a dolop of goat cheese before baking)...fig wrap bacon around and heat through (add blue cheese when not in lent)....quick little pop in the mouth appi's.. |
| Can you use fake (or soy) dairy products? If so, you can make anything! If not, how about cold shrimp and cocktail sauce? Little meatballs with grape jelly/barbeque sauce topping. Mini pigs in blankets. Fruit salad. Mini-quiches with seafood or veggie filling. |
| the pig's blankets have butter in them and the quiche crust has butter in it. I was looking around at recipes (I was thinking scones) and EVERYTHING has dairy in it!!
What about hash brown pie, where you basically just cook the hash browns in a cast iron skillet until they form a singular formation... What about some sort of dried fruit bread with fruit spread/jams? Cut up kielbasa in bbq sauce... |
No Dairy is limiting, isn't it? 
How about scallops with the bacon wrapped around them & baked? |
| How about substituting with margerine? |
| Oh, make me drool............
However, I didn't mention not only is ALL dairy out, but also All meats and fish. So what does that leave, you ask....... yeah, that's whay I say......
Shellfish (no I'm not buying shrimp for 100 people) Nuts (nut butters are fine) Fruits Veggies Beans and yes, margarine is fine, but not eggs...if you were thinking baking. Being Sunday, olive oil is permitted. I hit the "Whole Foods" type store today after swimming and found egg substitute, so baking is back in, phew. I also bought a boat load of granola and...almond butter  ...so will try making almond butter granola drop cookies. Mixing peanutbutter, honey and Rice Krispies yesterday didn't yield a cookie that will stay together, so will have to work on that.........wonder if marshmellows have egg white? I know the jet puff stuff does.
Still thinking about something savory......... |
| I was searching on the Kraft website, my favourite place to find recipes but it really wasn't working because everything has cheese in it.
Then I finally thought to search for Vegan recipes!!!! Here's a great website that has lots of recipes. Maybe it will give you some ideas. http://www.veganchef.com/ |
| Does it have to be finger food?
A pasta salad (with pesto?) or a cold noodle salad (asian-style, with Sesame oil) would be good. To make it finger food you could make little bundles of pasta salad with lettuce leaves. |
| Pasta with pesto.........if the pesto was homemade as the prepared stuff has cheese in it.........but interesting.......hmmm, fresh basil/olive oil/tomato???
I've looked at Veganchef, but nothing pops out at me. I'll look again. I still have the cookies. Plus there are enough garbazo beans to cook and make a hummus mountain....just add cracker. |
| What did you end up making.... and how was the afternoon tea? |
I ended up finding the egg substitute quite by accident. Plus the regular grocery store was having a sale on banana bread mix.......like I can't mix my own flour, etc. But it was enough push to make me decide to bake 3 loves of bread......turned out OK. Then went ahead and made a mountain of hummus. I'm used to making smaller portions at a time  ran out of olive oil and lemon juice, but everyone raved about the final product...guess I did something right. And then the disaster......I attempted to make no bake granola drops with almond butter. They either turned out rock hard from boiling sugar too long or soft and gooey from not boiling it long enough. Took the softies so as not to break people's dental work.
Other items on the table were cooked shrimp, bean soup (split pea with larger beans floating around inside), lots of raw veggies, several bean salads, pickled veggies and mushrooms, lots fresh fruit including figs (!), and various combinations of farina or rice based Halvah....all were very strange. Lots of little finger sandwiches...may just PBJs, a really good couscous salad......so plenty. Well there had to be plenty as we hosted a Pan Orthodox service that night and had a church full of Russians, Serbs, Arabs, etc in addition to the Greeks...all of whom were hungry. So the left overs disappeared down to the crumbs. So the tea collected money for the missions and the guest were fed. A good day. Thank you for your support and help. |
| I'm glad it went well.
So...is it for the entire 40 days that you can't eat any dairy or meat or just on Sundays (or other days)? And that's interesting that egg substitute doesn't count as dairy. I love learning about different traditions |
| oops I'm signed out......
actually it's closer to 50 days when you figure Meat Fare and Cheese Fare...before hand. You clean out the meat 2 weeks before and all the dairy the week before. Then it's about 40+ days. Plus all the other fasts. So it works out to about half a year one needs to reframe from meats and dairy.........no wonder the Mediterranean diet is so healthy!! It's no problem with all the soy based products on the market....unless you live in the villages where modern isn't in their vocabulary. One lady told me they lived on olives and bread for most of the fast when she was a child because they lived where it was cold and isolated. On weekends you are allowed to use oils and drink wine...... 
If you are ill, of course, you are excused from such strict fast. It is not cruel, just a reminder............... |
| That's so interesting! It's a wonder everyone doesn't gain a million pounds from all the starches... |
| that is a problem!!
While setting up for rummage sale tomorrow, somebody brought an interesting dish.... saute onion and a little green pepper in vegan broth. add a little garlic. then orzo, defrosted spinach and tomatoes. S&P and other herbs of you wish. Made for husband that night, he liked it. All I could think of was "this needs cheese." Of course the standard faire is Fasolada, bean soup. hmmmm. Maybe make some today for tomorrow. Today is strictly clear liquids for me due to med test tomorrow. |
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