What do mothers want for Mother’s Day?
Breakfast in bed? Flowers? Jars of honey? Hand sewn pot holders?
Crown of daisies? Wads of cash? A high five?
Gum? Altoids? Pet goldfish?
I’m hoping the answer is lunch with tea sandwiches and cocktails…. cause that’s what’s going to happen for my mom.
I’m making lunch. I’m setting the table. I’m using the fancy linens. I’m also doing the dishes. I should buy flowers too… someone remind me.
I think my mamabear is most stoked about the clean dishes… let’s be real.
Wait… have you ever had Green Goddess dressing?
Green Goddess dressing is packed with fresh herbs, lemon, garlic, and bound with some sort of yogurt or mayonnaise. Fresh herbs? It’s so delicious.
These tea sandwiches are inspired by that dressing.
I feel silly giving you an exact recipe for a simple tea sandwich. Can I just throw your inspiration your way?
Soak it up and pass it on to your mamabear.
I chopped up a tablespoon each of fresh mint and fresh basil.
I mixed the fresh herbs into 2 tablespoons of softened unsalted butter.
Also! A dash of salt a pepper.
In a separate bowl I stirred together softened cream cheese with about 1/4 cup of fresh chives and a bit of lemon zest. Black pepper too!
Thinly sliced cucumbers, carrots (shaved with a vegetable peeler), and spinach (not pictured).
Sandwich guts!
Cream cheese chive spread spread on one side of crustless white bread.
Herby butter slathered on the other side of crustless white bread.
Cucumbers, carrots, and spinach are stacked.
Not too heavy. These are delicate suckers.
Breads are pressed together and sliced in four. Eat ferociously.
Pinky up.
sarah
Oh these look so perfect. What a great idea!
Urban Wife
Looks dainty and delish!
Meagan @ Scarletta Bakes
Pinky up – key element to tea sandwich recipes and dining.
Thanks for the recipe!!
lauren
Dear Joy,
Why are you so brilliant?
Yours truly,
Lauren S.
JasSethi
:D
I was thinking the EXACT same thing!! :D
wonderful idea!
and THANK YOU, for reminding me its Mother’s day!
I’ve got to call up my MamaBear!! :D
Alison
Love this, Joy! I just made some tea sandwiches for watching the Royal Wedding last weekend. They were very similar to yours – but yours look much better :)
what katie's baking
first of all, i love that you call your mom mamabear!
second of all, i’m stealing this idea from you!!!
joythebaker
steal it!
sheila @ Elements
I’ve never heard of Green Goddess Dressing before, but now that I have, I definitely want to try it. Sounds wonderful! Hope you have a fun day with your mama! :)
Kristen @ Chocolate Covered Kristen
I now feel the need to combine mint, basil, and butter and spread it on my morning toast.
Annalea
every mama should feel like a goddess on mother’s day – especially a green one. very natural! have a lovely time with your mama.
Jen of My Tiny Oven
YUM! I can see myself putting back a plate of these babies in no time! My mom lives far away so I might just make these for her anyway and eat them all in honor of her!
Jesse
so adorably cute i can barely stand it. i will not be with my mother this year but i still need to make these.
Maggie@BritishBaking
How do you have the time to write 1000 letters and make adorable teeny sandwiches!!
And without crusts too – how dainty!
joythebaker
i have no idea.
Jennifer Duncan
Joy, this is off topic for today, but had knee surgery (blech!) and was away from the computer for a few days. I have a challenge for you after reading the gluten free cupcake recipe from a few days ago. I eat gluten-free because I am allergic and I LOVE the recipe you did around Christmas that was goat cheese biscuits. I made it and substituted a GF mix (rice flour, tapioca and potato starch with xanthum gum) I use for the flour and they came out great. Same for the pot pie the other day with the cream cheese in it. The only thing is that they are still really crumbly and don’t rise as much as with regular flour. Which is the bane of all GF cooking. SOOO, my challenge is: please play around with your biscuits recipes and GF alternatives. So far, modifying those two recipes have produced the best biscuits in the 5 years I’ve been GF free. Gotta have good biscuits, I live in the South. :) Thanks!
joythebaker
let me put my brains on this! thanks jennifer!
jen @ the baked life
I’m pretty sure my mum would want tea sandwiches and not pet goldfish or handmade pot holders. She’s not mushy like that.
Hannah at FleurDeLicious
yums, I love green goddess dressing. These sandwiches sound so refreshing and delicious! And since you cut them so small I think I could probably eat 10.