This week we would like to highlight a recipe from The Gathering of Friends volume 1 and offer one of you a copy of your own. I received this beautiful book as a Christmas gift from a dear friend several years ago. I spent the holidays going thru it page by page and dreaming of all the gatherings I would host that coming year. It even inspired one of my New Years Resolutions that year:)I LOVE how this book includes 16 different gathering ideas, complete with a unique theme, coordinating recipes, table setting ideas, shopping list, and even a page for notes. This book is full of inspiration and directions to make entertaining easy and fun! I have since gifted this volume many times for birthdays, Mothers Day and Weddings and it has always been recieved with rave reviews!
To enter this weeks giveaway answer this question...
What gathering would you love to plan and why?
For additional entries you can become a Sisters Cafe follower or blog about this giveaway on your own site. Just leave a link to your post in the comments section. Don't forget that buy 3 get one free special is going on now at the Gathering of Friends Website here. Perfect for gifts!
The recipe I am sharing with you today is from Chapter 14 'A Garden Brunch'. These little sandwiches are divine! Your guests will be asking for the recipe for sure!
PS My weekly menu is now at the top of Melandboys in the tabs!
Fried Tomato Sandwiches1/4 cup butter
3 ripe tomatoes, sliced
5 oz cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
salt and pepper
1 baguette cut in 1/4 " slices (20 slices)
Melt butter in frying pan. Place sliced tomatoes in pan and sprinkle with 1/2 of the sugar, salt and pepper. Fry for 4-5 minutes, flip and sprinkle with remaining sugar, salt and pepper.
Put baguette slices on cookie sheet and broil till golden. Spread with softened cream cheese and return to oven till cream cheese bubbles. Spread toamotes over open faced toast. Enjoy!
I would like to throw any kind of party. My parties always seem to loose something or the food isn't quite right or something . . . It's always something!
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The event I want to plan and will be planning is my daughters 3rd birthday. We are having a Disney movie sleepover, I will make the best food for all those girls & their moms.
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Our family always gets together to celebrate anything...I think it's because we like to eat! But it would be fun to have some new ideas and recipes.
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ReplyDeleteMy Young Women's President and I(I am the first counselor) are always looking for new party ideas for our small group of girls. Any excuse to eat!:) We would love this cookbook to inspire new ideas to share with our young women!
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I'd love to have a dinner party, we used to do them all the time and haven't done one in a long time now!
ReplyDeleteMy husband's birthday is in May and I would love to plan a gathering!
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ReplyDeleteI would love to plan a family reunion at a cabin in the mountains this winter, with a White Christmas theme from decor to food to gift wrap. And... we actually are doing that this year.... so, this book would come in handy to help with some ideas!!!
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I'll be hosting a "sauce" party next month! I like healthier cooking but lets face it, sometimes it just needs a little something to sauce it up in order to make the husbands happy. So a few friends and I decided to teach each other fast and easy sauces.
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ReplyDeleteI would love to host an Easter Brunch for my little family and some friends. My husband and are away with our 2 young children at dental school and we don't make it back home to Idaho for many holidays and that's when we really start to miss home. We have met some unbelievable friends here though and I would love to host a somewhat elegant (well as elegant as you can get with tons of children around) Easter brunch before we head to church that afternoon.
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ReplyDeleteI told my husband at the beginning of the year that I wanted to try something new. So I got to thinking and I would like to try Thanksgiving dinner. Roasting a turkey is new for me, but I am willing to try it. My Grandma is getting up there in age, and this is one of her favorite holidays. Maybe I can take over the tradition for her. I love your blog...keep posting those yummy recipes!!
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I'd host a Favorite Things Party- each guest brings 3 of their "favorite things"- and then there is a swap. Its interesting to see what inexpensive things people bring.
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ReplyDeleteI want to throw a pi day party, because I am a math teacher. Too bad it was last month, I will have to wait a while. in the mean time I will think of another reason to throw a party
ReplyDeleteI'm having "bunko" at my house next week and will be adding these tasty sandwiches to the menu. They look delicious! I am also hosting Easter dinner for my husband's side of the family this year and think this book would be amazing to plan from. Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteI would plan a get-together with my sister and our daughters, have lots of good food and a mate (a south american drink)
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ReplyDeleteI have planned just about every kind of gathering you can think of because I love to bring friends and family together and I love to eat!
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ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to have a party before Spring's arrival with the theme "Cabin Fever". We, who live in snow-bound areas, get sick of cold, gray, dismal days, snow, bad roads and just having to stay inside most of the time. Just to give a hint of wonderful Summer weather, maybe an indoor picnic in the winter or something along those lines.
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Mmm, these look right up my ally. I bet it would be great with goat cheese too.
ReplyDeleteWith a large extended family and kiddos of my own it seems like every party is a potluck/ paper plate kind of event. I would like to have an elegant dinner party with china, cloth napkins, and grown-ups only.
I LOVE entertaining and having friends and family over to my home with yummy food and great decor. I would love to have this book for some new ideas.
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ReplyDeleteI would love to do a gathering of friends for my Mother. She will be 86 this June. I think it would be so fun to let her invite her dear friends and enjoy a fun afternoon. With me doing the food, decorations and invites.
ReplyDeleteI have a close group of friends that all like to cook. I have always wanted to have a party that everybody could bring something that they have never made before but were afraid to try. I think everybody has one of those recipes. Could be some interesting dishes!
ReplyDeletefestive parties are so fun to create/attend! would love recipes for parties/special events!
ReplyDeleteI would love to plan a fun Mother's Night Out at my house!
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ReplyDeletei would love to a few friends and their families over when the weather finally gets nicer and we can play outside!
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ReplyDeleteI would love to throw a huge 80th birthday party for my Dad!
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ReplyDeleteI would like to throw a brunch for my girlfriends. There would be lots of good food and mimosas!
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ReplyDeleteI love, love, love to cook, entertain and find any reason to throw a party. At the end of the month, I am hosting a Royal Wedding Viewing Party for my 4 year old daughter and her friends, full of lots of wedding inspired food and princess dresses. I want my daughter to share in my love for entertaining and have fond memories of fun times with friends.
ReplyDeleteI am planning a party for my parents 50th birthday. They both turn 50 in sept!
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ReplyDeleteI would love to have help with a special theme to host our neighborhood Supper Club. We have a group of 5 couples of all ages and backgrounds that live in the same neighborhood and get together every other month for a special dinner. This book would be great for helping to give me a creative twist to hosting my dinner party! PS - I love the Sisters Cafe blog - I am actually making the Black Bean & Corn Quinoa tonight for dinner! Thanks for all the great tips.
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ReplyDeleteI would ove to have all my sisters over and have a sisters evening.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is in the military so it isn't very often I can get with my five sisters and my mom to just relax and enjoy one another's company. I would have a girl's night in with a great movie, home spa treatments, and, of course, delicious food!
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ReplyDeleteI would love to have an "end of the school year" or a "summer bash" or a "back to school" ....ok let's face it I would just love to have a party!!
ReplyDeleteA gathering with my friends - no particular reason other than to show them how much I love them!
ReplyDeleteA get together with my sisters. We all live in different states and don't see each other as often as we'd like.
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This book sounds terrific. Thanks for offering it as a giveaway!
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I would have a gathering of new friends that I have made here in Oregon. I just moved here from Utah and would love to get them all together. Thanks for your GREAT food blog. It has been so good to have, my cooking has changed for the better because of this blog THANK YOU.
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I would love to have a party with all of our extended family. We live in Alaska, so we don't see everyone very often. mcgeemom@gmail.com
ReplyDeletei would love to cater a family gathering and have every bite amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteI would host a Mom's Dinner Gathering! I love my friends and I think they are Lovely Moms! It would be a way for me to showcase my cooking and it would give them a nice night out - a break! My hope is it would turn into a monthly gathering rotating homes! All Moms need a Girls Night Out! Here's to Moms, cooking and gatherings! :)
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I would love to throw a party...for my blogger friends! I would love to meet up with some someday in real life since we have been through so much together.
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ReplyDeleteI enjoy entertaining, but not a detail person, sounds like this book and I could compli,net each other
ReplyDeleteI would love to plan a BBQ to get to know my new neighbors
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