tea time sandwiches

[colleen]

I am looking for some well," a little out of the ordinary" type of tea sandwiches. Does anyone have any? I love cucumber and there aren't a lot of those ones out there that I've been able to find. Thanks Colleen

[KatieD]

I just watched "From Martha's Kitchen" on the FoodTV network. Martha Stewart featured a few tea sandwich recipes that I thought everyone would enjoy. She also showed how to make bread boxes out of loaves of bread. The next airing, at least where I am in MD, is tomorrow at 2 p.m. If anyone wants to watch it or set their timer to tape it, it may be worth it or you can try accessing the www.foodtv.com website and see if the recipes are posted.

[Brenda]

Colleen:

Did you see my post above? Go to those
pages and you'll see some tea sandwich
recipes, plus here are a couple:

Cucumber Shrimp Tea Sandwiches

Ingredients:
1/3 cup minced green onions
1/4 cup soft cream cheese, room temperature
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup plain low-fat yogurt
2 tsp. fresh minced dill
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 tsp. black pepper
6 thinly sliced slices of homestyle white bread
1 1/2 pounds medium shrimp, cooked and peeled
1 cup thinly sliced cucumber
1/2 cup thinly sliced radishes
6 lettuce leaves

Combine first 7 ingredients in a bowl. Cut rolls in half horizontally.
Spread the cream cheese mixture on three slices of bread. On the
other three slices add the shrimp, then arrange the cucumber and
radishes evenly on top. Next add one lettuce leaf to each slice, then
top with the slices that were covered with the cheese mixture. Press
down lightly and cut into triangles with a serrated knife. If necessary
you can place a decorative toothpick in each triangle. Notes: Use
your favorite type of lettuce. You can also buy small salad shrimp
and diced them up into the cheese mixture instead of using the
bigger ones.

Cucumber and Nasturtium Sandwiches

Ingredients:
2 medium sized cucumbers
8 thin sliced brown bread
4 nasturtium leaves
mayonnaise
onion juice or powder

Peel, half, seed and finely chop the cucumbers.
Place in a bowl and add a dash or two of the
onion juice or powder and enough mayonnaise
to make it spreadable. Butter the slices of bread,
and for each sandwich spread on enough cucumber
mixture to cover lightly. Lay a leaf on top of
each piece of bread and top with another one.
Trim the crust. Makes 4 sandwiches.
Note-you could substitute any nice lettuce
or watercress for the nasturtium. Also when
you place these on a platter or each plate
be sure to garnish with a nasturtium bloom!

[teatimetamera]

Egg Salad on Egg Bread
3 Hard-cooked eggs, peeled, finely chopped.
1/2 c. Best Foods Mayo naisse (don't use light)
1 tbs. finely chopped green onion
Salt and pepper to taste
10 slices of egg bread

Mix ingredients until well combined. Spread half of the bread with a thin coating of mayonnaise. Spread the other bread with the egg salad. Make each sandwich, cut off crusts, and cut into three parallel sections.

Chicken Salad Sandwiches
1 c. Chopped cooked chicken
3/4 tsp. Salt
1/3 c. Best Foods Mayonnaise
1 tbs. Chopped green onion
2 tbs. Toasted, chopped almonds
1 tsp. Dill mix (opt.)

Mix ingredients until well combined. Spread half of the bread with a thin coating of mayonnaise. Spread the other bread with the Chicken salad. Make each sandwich, cut off crusts, and cut into three parallel sections or four triangles.

Baco-Dilly Sandwiches
8 oz. Cream Cheese (softened)
1/2 c. Mayonnaise
5 Bacon slices (finely chopped)
1 tbs. Chopped green onion
1 tsp. Dill mix
1/8 tsp. Pepper
1 c. Toasted slivered almonds

Mix ingredients until well combined. Spread half of the bread with a thin coating of mayonnaise. Spread the other bread with the cream cheese mixture Make each sandwich, cut off crusts, and cut into three parallel sections, or four triangles.


Mandarin Orange Sandwiches
Drain canned Mandarin oranges. With a fork, mix oranges into 6 oz. of cream cheese to make spreadable consistency. Mix in 1 tbs. brown sugar. Make sandwiches with white bread.


Open-faced Fruit Sandwiches
8 oz package cream -cheese, softened
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
1/2 cup chopped nuts (toasted pecans or almonds)
1 c Strawberries, well drained-and chopped into small -pieces
Brown bread or whole wheat

Combine the cream cheese and lemon rind. Blend in the nuts and berries. Spread the mixture on top of small pieces of bread, cut into rounds or squares, or on crackers.


Celery and Walnut Sandwiches
4 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup celery, finely chopped
1/2 cup diced toasted walnuts

To toast walnuts, spread on a baking stone ( or sheet) and bake at 375 5-10 mintues until lightly browned. In a small bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Mix in celery and walnuts.


Deviled Ham Sandwiches
1 1/3 cups finely chopped ham
1/4 cup finely chopped celery
1/4 cup finely chopped onion
1/4 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons sweet pickle relish
Salt and pepper

Combine all ingredients and mix well.


Other Sandwich Ideas:
1. Jam and Cream Cheese
2. Avocado and Bacon on Wheat
3. Turkey, Cream Cheese and Cranberry Sauce
4. Tuna Salad
5. Peanut Butter, Banana mixed w/ 2 tbs. Cream Cheese & 2 tbs. Brown Sugar
6. Apricot Jam, Cream Cheese and Chopped Ham whipped together
7. Sliced Mozzarella, Tomato and Pesto Sauce
8. Crab, Avocado, and Green Onion
9. Egg Salad with four slices of Chopped Bacon
10. Brie and thinly sliced Beef and Tomato

[adizkide]

Those recipes sound wonderful....but what is the dill mix????

[teatimetamera]

Oops! Sorry...I forgot to change that. These are recipes I share through my business, The Pampered Chef. The company has several great seasoning mixes and the dill mix happens to be my favorite, so I use it quite often. You can just use plain dill weed, or if you find a dill mix in the spice section of your grocery store, you might try it.

[Notcheap]

My daughter and I went a little nuts last weekend. See what happens when we go to the farmers market. Teas sandwiches for days and days for just the two of us. Homemade lemon cake from scratch, her first ever.
After a number of trys here is the best so far on the cucumber sandwiches.

Heather's Cucumber Teawiches
1 cucumber
white wine vinager
sugar
cream cheese
fresh dill
butter
sandwich slice bread

Thinly slice a cucumber. In a small bowl, layer cucumber, with white wine or raspberry vinager, and a sprinkling of sugar. Continue till all the cucumbers are covered. Allow to stand at least 1 hour. Drain on a paper towel.
Chop leaf part of the dill finly. Spread butter on both slices of bread. Thinly spread whipped or softened cream cheese on one side of bread. Lay 1 layer of cucumbers on cream cheese, sprinkle dill on top and place sandwich bread on. Cut in to squares after cutting of crusts. Lay 1 small piece of dill on top for decoration.
Good luck
Notcheap

[Abigail]

All of you have excellent fillings for tea-wiches.

Colleen, you may also go to www.allrecipes.com. Not only will you find things that satisfy every tooth in your head (sweet tooth included) you can put in the number of servings desired and the recipe will be instantly scaled from 2 to 2000. It's a very good resource.

Happy Cooking,
Abigail

[snowball6]

Washington Sandwiches
1cup candied cherries
1/2 cup pecans
1/4 cups orange juice

chop cherries and pecans together, mix with orange juice. Spread between bread slices spread with sweet butter.


Ginger Fig Sandwiches
1 cup dried figs
1/2 cups crystallized ginger
rind and juice of 1/2 lemon

In a food processor chop figs and ginger mix with lemon juice and rind. Spread between buttered slices of brown bread.

Kim

[Notcheap]

The Washington sandwiches sound great. Not sure that my daughter will like them, I am sure I will.
So I am off to the store to be good to me. DD is in palm springs with her youth group. SO it is an all about ME weekend. Notcheap Colleen Thank you so much for the starter question. This has become one of my favorite boards. Have a great weekend

[Denise]

All of those sandwiches sound great and I use some of them in my tea room. Here are a few that we find are popular.


Egg & Salmon on whole wheat

A two layer sandwich. egg salad on one layer and salmon on the other.


Rolled Cherry Sandwiches
mix cream cheese with marachino cherry juice and bits of cherry, spread on flat pressed white bread and roll like a cinnamon bun and then cut into 1 inch pcs.


enjoy and thanks for the ideas

Denise

[Pam]

MY MOM AUNT DAUGHTER AND I TAKE TURNS HAVE TEA PARTYS ALL YEAR LONG. OF COURSE WITH MY DAUGHTER ONLY BEING 4 I HELP ALOT. WE REALLY LOVE THIS RECEIPE FOR CUCUMBER SANDWICHES.

1 MEDIUM CUCUMBER ( PEELED,GRATED AND WELL DRAINED)
1 (3 OZ) PKG. CREAM CHEESE
1/2 CUP MAYONNAISE

THE NEXT STEP IS VERY VERY IMPROTANT. DRAIN CUCUMBERS BETWEEN PAPER TOWELS.( YOU MAY EVEN HAVE TO CHANGE PAPER TOWELS AT LEAST ONCE)

MIX INGREDIENTS TOGETHER, THEN CHILL AT LEAST 30 MIN.

THIS SHOULD BE SERVED ON WHITE BREAD(CRUSTS REMOVED, OF COURSE) BECAUSE WHEAT BREAD WILL TAKE AWAY FROM THE DELICATE FLAVOR OF THE CUCUMBER FILLING.

I HOPE YOU LIKE THIS RECEIPE. WE LOVE IT AND MY LITTLE GIRL JUST LOVES TO HELP PUT IT ON THE BREAD TO MAKE SANDWICHES. PS. CUTTING SANDWICHES WITH COOKIE CUTTERS IS NOT JUST FOR KIDS. I LOVE TO USE MY FLOWER COOKIE CUTTER FOR MY TEA PARTIES!

[teatyme4]

VEGGIE CHEESE SANDWICHES

2c cream cheese,softened
1/4c chopped onion
1/4c grated carrot
1/4c chopped green pepper
2 tbsp fresh parsley
1 1/2 tsp horseradish
16 slices rye bread

Stir vegetables and cream cheese until well mixed. Cover and chill
for several hours for flavors to blend.Spread on one slice of bread
top with another slice. cut off crusts. Then quarter.


I usually make the cream cheese mixture the night before.

[Denirae]

Wow, thanks for sharing everybody. I am always looking for new recipes. Ya'll are the greatest. = )

[KRISTEN]

This is fast becomming my favorite website!
Thanks everyone for taking the time to put in your recipies!
the Deviled Ham
Jam & Cream Cheese
Egg Salad
PB & Banana w/ cream cheese (brown sugar)
sound really good!
I will try them out on my afterschoolers as a snack next week!

not cheap How did your weekend go? Did you sell alot at your farmers market?

[Eliza Marshall]

Colleen,
I like to dice some black olives and mix them with Philadelphia cream cheese and spread it on white and brown bread to make sandwiches. It looks very pretty to spread it on the white bread and then close the sandwich with the brown bread so that you have one of each for each sandwich. It's a little different but very tasty.

[Spoonful]

Whoa, what a lovely site! Hello everyone.

I just stumbled on here via google, looking for cucumber tea sandwiches.

Thank you so much for these wonderful recipes.

K.

[Eliza Marshall]

I thought that you all might be interested in this unique take on cucumber sandwiches. I tried it last weekend and it was a big success. Simple enough to make but very tasty.
Eliza

Cucumber Hummus Sandwich

Ingredients:

2 slices bread
dijon mustard
leaf lettuce
1/2 cup hummus
thinly sliced cucumber
sliced tomato
1 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon grated parmesan cheese
Directions:

Spread both slices of bread with dijon mustard. Place lettuce on one slice of bread. Spread the hummus on the lettuce. (This prevents the bread from getting soggy if you take the sandwich to work). Lay the cucumber slices on top of the hummus and the tomato slices on top of the cucumber. Drizzle the balsamic vinegar over the tomatoes. Sprinkle the parmesan cheese over all. Close the sandwich, cut in half, and enjoy.

I altered this a bit by placing the sliced cucumber in a colander and sprinkling the balsamic vinegar over them and let them sit for a few minutes before adding them to the sandwich.

[kdeedee]

Thanks for all those great recipes! I am going to have to print them out & try them out on my kids for lunches!

And the Dillmix from Pampered Chef is really good! I love to sprinkle that on my popcorn!!

[Lorraine]

These recipes souns delicious! I can't wait to try the Cucumber Hummus sandwiches. My teenage daughter is vegetarian and she doesn't really like hummus but I think she will like this combination! I always find something great when I look around in here...
Lorraine.