We had the most fun planning and executing the food items.
Devilled eggs:
Tuna and corn vol-au-vents: 
Little boys: 
Jatz and dip (note the inspired use of the Tupperware!) and prawn cocktail, party style:
I hope you've all noticed the dalek like grapefruits with cocktail bits (pineapple and cheese, gherkins and cocktail onions) as well as the spam topped with a maraschino cherry (is there nothing that cannot be improved by the addition of the maraschino cherry??!!)And for dessert - individual trifles (see, what did I tell you, vastly improved by the addition of the maraschino cherry):
Pavlova:
And of course there were cocktails - strawberry dacquiri and the pina colada (mmmm, umbrella drinks!):
And the piece de resistance:
The hand carved cucumber flower basket, which was our table centrepiece! What fun!! And I may have (ahem) bought just a wee bit of tupperware...
22 comments:
the prawns hanging off the side of a dish made me laugh out loud! mmmmm tupperware....
oh my lord. Utterly spectacular! My eye was really drawn to the dalek, I mean, grapefruit. I kept waiting to read what it was!
That cucumber flower basket is genius! It's all astounding. What a hoot!!!
Clever, clever girls.
I love it!
Ah, possums. You younguns really missed something, not having the 50's the first time round. Such a culinary paradise it was! But my ma never managed the cucumber flower basket, and I grieve over its omission from my life.
And just WHERE was the grapefruit hedgehog? (Half a grapefruit skewered with kabana,cheesesquares and luminous cocktail onions on toothpicks and made into a hedgehog)? What a great night - looks like lots of fun!
OK. Now this looks like a bit more work than I do for my parties...
Yes, I'm with Tinking, where are the bits and bobs on toothpicks??!! Lovely party!!! MrsDrWho had a retro party one year and we had fondue as well. Yum!! Not so very secretly I love Tupperware!!!
Fabulous work ladies!! I bet it all got scoffed up too, even the spam with cherries (shudder). Inspired!
Oh, wow; what fun! That is quite the spread! I'd never heard of "little boys" before...
Wow - the food looks so yummy & it must have been a fun party! We girls can never have enough tupperware!
And radish flowers, too! That's hilarious!
What an awesome idea! Did you all wear aprons with frills, too? That looks like a really fun theme party. Although...no Jello mold? With canned fruit suspended inside? Is that an American 50s thing? :)
Gosh all that glorious food just makes me want to slip into a chiffon apron and a hairnet and tuck in! I particularly like your half orange with chedar (coon I hope for added authenticity) on toothpicks. So classy! I made a similar one for a friend's Don's Party election night party but included green cocktail onions too. The poor kidlets all thought they were lollies. You can imagine the looks on their faces on tasting the onions...
Wow! I'm really impressed. That is the most amazing 'Tupperware' spread I've ever seen!!
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Pass the Spam please darling.
I heart tupperware, especially the 50's stuff of which I have some of my Grandma's.
Thanks for your good wishes. Congratualtions on your 'more than 100th' post!! LOL
Amazing food! Wow! send me a piece of pavlova, my favourite!
What a fun idea. I think that the 50s must have stuck around for a while in Tassie, because all that stuff is familiar to me and I wasn't born until 1974!!
Mum did sell Tupperware mind you...
Love Love Love Love it all.
Love the food, the presentation, Tupperware Parties.
Wished I could have made it......
Looks like so much fun.
the prawn ring got me too! I don't know what I love more - the curried eggs, or the cherry-topped spam, tho'?!
Fabulous! That carved flower basket is a work of (tasty) art. Looks like you all had a blast!
*claps loudly* BRAVO! BRAVO!
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