I baked a chocolate cake to take to our neighbour's farm for afternoon tea, topping it with mini Easter eggs from my precious (& closely guarded !) stash
My Easter weekend was wonderful ..... despite lots of continued rain, the Easter bunny managed to make it up our muddy roads in time to hide lots of chocolate eggs in the garden for our daughter on Sunday morning (our 10 month old son is a little too young for chocolatey delights just yet .... !)
On Friday afternoon we were invited to friends who live on a farm around 40 minutes from us (they are fairly new to the area - an Avocado growing bachelor who moved here 2 years ago and who now has a lovely girlfriend who is living out on the farm with him - wonderful to have another couple in the area !)
Anyway, we were invited for 'Good Friday Afternoon Tea & An Easter Egg Hunt' ... there were lots of other families there, and our hosts had laid on egg & spoon races, sack races and hopping races for the kids - and adults - I took place in a Mum's race with my daughter but you are not going to see any photo's of that - he he !!
Anyway, we were invited for 'Good Friday Afternoon Tea & An Easter Egg Hunt' ... there were lots of other families there, and our hosts had laid on egg & spoon races, sack races and hopping races for the kids - and adults - I took place in a Mum's race with my daughter but you are not going to see any photo's of that - he he !!
Our hosts had laid games on for the children (and adults, too !) in their garden ... egg & spoon races, hopping races and sack races ( their dogs joined in the fun, too !)
Our hostess is a fabulous cook - and she had laid on a spread fit for a king .... and guests had also brought tasty treats with them ... meringues, chocolate & other biscuits, carrot cake, cucumber sandwiches, sliced ham, carrot sticks and dip, decorated cup cakes, chocolate pyramid shaped cake, scones, hot cross buns .... with lots of tea, coffee and a 'welcome' drink of champagne with a rhubarb coulis at the bottom of the glass - delicious !
Our hostess is a fabulous cook and had a table full of tea time treats laid on for us ....
We were expecting some friends out for Easter who could not make it in the end, so on Sunday we drove to a town around 1 1/2 hours away from the farm, where we had a wonderful lunch of Indian food .... and even brought some home for supper (Murgh Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala) .. which we enjoyed with a good bottle of South African red !
Sunday night saw us eating some delicious Indian food ... enjoyed with a good bottle of South African red ...
Our hostess is a fabulous cook and had a table full of tea time treats laid on for us .... We were expecting some friends out for Easter who could not make it in the end, so on Sunday we drove to a town around 1 1/2 hours away from the farm, where we had a wonderful lunch of Indian food .... and even brought some home for supper (Murgh Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala) .. which we enjoyed with a good bottle of South African red !
Sunday night saw us eating some delicious Indian food ... enjoyed with a good bottle of South African red ... Hubby also requested a chocolate cake for us to keep at home, so I baked one and iced (frosted) it with white chocolate butter cream (made by mixing icing sugar, butter and hot white chocolate powder together !) and decorated with chunks of caramel chocolate ... well, it was Easter, after all !
I made a second chocolate cake to keep at home for the family - topped with white chocolate icing and caramel studded chunks of chocolate ... yum !
And that was my food filled, fun filled easter weekend. Needless to say, this week we are back to the healthy eating and grilled, steamed and poached methods of cooking .... drinking lot's of water and trying to make up for a weekend of excesses !
Hope that you all had a wonderful Easter, too .........
