Lunch Bunch for Lunch

Once a month, the ladies I have dubbed

"The Lunch Bunch" 

come to Linderhof for lunch

We "lost" one of our members who moved to

Kansas City

and so we fill in

We're not ready to find a permanent replacement

The "fill-ins" are interesting and it is fun to have a different guest

each month

Our July luncheon was early . . . because of grandchildren visiting

or visiting grandchildren

The August lunch was our regular day

(the fourth Tuesday in the month)

It had been a while since we've seen each other

And we all had grandchildren stories to tell!

The dining room set for lunch

It's summer so we chose lace placemats and table runner

It seemed lighter!

The house all ready for company!

The Spode Blue Room always sets a pretty table,

damask napkins in silver rings

(my newest rings)

Jim's grandmother's cutlery

The menu:

Blue and Bleu Salad --

romaine, blueberries and bleu cheese

With a homemade poppy seed dressing

A mushroom spinach quiche

Carrots with a Creamy Tomato Dressing

is the name of this dish in the cookbook I got it out of --

however, my Mom and I have always known it as

"copper pennies"

It's a good salad and one that we enjoyed for lunch for the next couple of days

In summer, I often like a vegetable salad as a side dish

They're usually make ahead and there is something nice about a cold dish

The quiche slices nicely

(I always cross my fingers whenever I try to get quiche out of the pan!)

The carrots add a nice colorful touch to the plate with quiche

(And I served Sister Shubert rolls as well)

Dessert was black raspberry jam cake with caramel frosting

I "sacrificed" a jar of Lunch Buncher Joyce's jam

to make the cake

But it was worth it!

However, it seemed more of a winter cake to me than a late

summer one . . . but it is a cake that I will make again.

If you don't have a jar of Joyce's black raspberry jam in your

larder, you can us boughten blackberry jam!