Yes, I know today is Wednesday, but I'm posting my "Tablescape Thursday Post" a little early. This is a post I did when I first began blogging, so please excuse all the spacing issues! Susan at Between Naps on the Porch is hosting the tablescape display. Check out her site later on this evening for all the great entries. Thank you Susan for allowing me to participate in this fun event!
My tablescape is an Informal Autumn Luncheon I hosted last year at our home in Mississippi. This is our table in the breakfast room and the food was served from the sideboard in the adjoining hearth room. Let's take a peek:
Pumpkin Soup Tureen Centerpiece
Menu Card
My tablescape is an Informal Autumn Luncheon I hosted last year at our home in Mississippi. This is our table in the breakfast room and the food was served from the sideboard in the adjoining hearth room. Let's take a peek:
Informal Autumn Luncheon
Pumpkin Soup Tureen Centerpiece Menu Card
Lunch Served Buffet Style
Pumpkin Cheese Ball
Spooned Southern Caviar
Miss Janice's Salad
Walnut Crusted Chicken with Pumpkin Sauce
Pumpkin Pie and Hot Apple Cider
This informal tablescape was set with autumn-tone dinnerware and glassware (purchased several years ago from Stein Mart). The butternut squash soup was served at the table from the pumpkin soup tureen (a Homegoods find). The gold-tone flatware was a gift from my mother many years ago. Autumn-theme place cards, pumpkin napkin rings, and a menu card brought the tablescape together to create a relaxed, but festive fall setting. The spooned Southern caviar is a recipe that helps to Make it Southern. Yummy pumpkin pie and hot apple cider was served fireside in the hearth room.
Autumn Luncheon Menu
Spooned Southern Caviar*
Pumpkin Cheese Ball with Green Apple Slices
Miss Janice's Salad**
Butternut Squash Soup
Walnut-Crusted Chicken with Pumpkin Sauce
Pumpkin Spiced Iced Tea
Pumpkin Pie and Whipped Cream
Hot Apple Cider
1 green onion, chopped
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 can black eyed peas, drained
1 can petite diced tomatoes, drained
1 can shoe peg corn, drained
A small amount of Italian dressing
Mix all ingredients and serve on large spoons.
**Recipe for Miss Janice's Salad
Mixed greens
Dried cranberries
Glazed pecans or chopped walnuts
Crumbled low-fat feta cheese
Trader Joe's Red Wine & Olive Oil Vinaigrette
I hope y'all have enjoyed visiting with me today.
54 comments:
Hi Miss Janice! What a beautiful table you've set! I certainly would have loved to have been on your guest list! The food sounds so scrumptious!
Be a sweetie,
Shelia ;)
Wow! I can't find anything 'informal' about it! (wink)--it is all so lovely--you thought of every detail.Beautiful job! Thanks for sharing the recipes, too!
Lovely table...just lovely! Love the menu card, the goblets (great color!) & the dessert & appetizer signs! But most of all, I loved your pumpkin-shaped cheese ball...I'm sooo making one for Thanksgiving!
BTW around here we call that Texas Caviar ;o)
Hello Miss Janice, Thank you so much for visiting my new blog and Congrats on yours as well. ~Beautiful job with it.~ Love your elegant luncheon tablescape. The dishes and pumpkin tureen are divine. The menu card placement is an adorable idea! Thank you for sharing your recipes. My mouth is watering at your pumpkin pie photo. I kid you not! Please come visit me anytime. You're always welcome. ~Warmly, Melissa
Hi Miss Janice, Thank you for visiting my blog today and your nice compliments! Your tablescape is really pretty. You did a great job. It looks like I'm going to get alot of great ideas from you! Welcome to blogland!! Kristen
This is just gorgeous! I love the menu card, where did you get this? I have been looking for one of these!
Oh, and I love the "you might be a southern lady if..." on your blog-so true! I am glad to be a southern lady!
How pretty! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I will certainly come back to yours for more entertaining ideas!
Thank you for your darling comments! I'm horrible at refinishing furniture, I just found that out 5 minutes ago ruining a tea cart :(. Now I have to take it to a professional to beautify it for moi. The rabbit, the menu card, actually the whole setting is very formal yet inviting. Beautiful post!
Welcome to the blogging world and thanks for stopping by. Your table looks wonderful and I am intrigued by those spoon appetizers! I want to find some of those menu card holders before the holidays. I plan on entertaining a bit! Have a great week!!
Well, I definitely dropped by here on the right day! I love a pretty tablescape, too, and your luncheon sounds wonderful. Reading your profile, I see that we enjoy many of the same things. I look forward to more friendly visits to come!
This is a beautiful table setting. I hope you will post often.
I foound lots of great ideas in this post!
I love those pretty plates with the "lacy" edges. Love the idea of serving the Southern Caviar on spoons. Sure looks like Fall to me. lovely. laurie
Hi Janice,
Wow, love this tablescape...and those napkin rings stole my heart! I have got to try the Spooned Southern Caviar...sounds yummy! I love the way it's served, too! So glad you posted this warm and inviting table! Susan
Beautiful table! And the food looks delicious too!*winks* Vanna
How wonderful with a beautiful table plus some new taste treasures to try. Sally
Hi...what a beautiful luncheon table & menu you have shared. I'll look forward to seeing more in the future. ;-) Bo
What a lovely table! Very inviting!
Thank you for visiting me and your kind words. I will be back to see your blog again!
~Liz~
All I can say is WOW.
Jean in Virginia
That is just lovely, Ms. Janice.
I especially like the extra detail of the bows on the end of the appetizer spoons.
Yes, that is correct!
Yes, as usual very pretty Miss Janice
This is fabulous Miss Janice, that Pumpkin Cheese Ball looks killer!
Smiles to you,
tp
Pumpkin sauce oh that sounds delicious!
Joyce
Miss Janice, next time you have an informal luncheon count me in! So inviting. The southern cavier is fun and creative. Your table is beautiful.
Thank you for all the recipes!
Yvonne
Delicious and beautiful too,killer combo. . .Love it all!
This is beautiful -- and so elegant -- just like you!
Janice-I love your table and your menu sounds elegant! Love the pumpkin cheese ball. Read your profile; you are a woman after my own heart! Thanks for sharing your table and recipe! how about the soup recipe? :)
This is just a gorgeous tablescape...
xoxo
Julie
HI Janice I love your fall table! so gorgeous! I have the spacing issues what's up with that? sometimes all is well others all messed up. Have a great evening. Beautiful TST! thanks for sharing with me!
Beautiful table, I love the dishes..
I didn't see this last year, so it's new to me!
AHHH, Miss Janice, Lunch was perfect, complimented by a beautiful table.
Thanks for having me in for lunch.
Everything looks great and food sounds great.
Barbara
Beautifully done, Miss Janice. Love the pumpkin tureen and your pretty dishes!
Thanks for sharing the recipes. It all looks scrumtuous.
Beautiful fall table. I love your pumpkin cheese ball, what a clever idea.
This is a party I would love to attend. I enjoyed my first visit to your blog very much. Everything looks perfect.
Sue
So pretty....just wish I wasn't on a special diet! BUT I can have cider and I am going to go heat some as I write!!
Spindle Cottage is my house blog
Happy Fall! Your tablescape is beautiful! Please stop by for a visit soon.
Michelle
How creative! And such a welcoming table~ thanks for sharing! I was hoping to see the recipe for the Walnut Chicken with Pumpkin Sauce~ Perhaps another post? Thanks again!
Hi Janice,
Oh, so glad you did repeat it...it's beautiful...gorgeous color scheme. Love that cheese ball...so clever! Thanks for the yummy recipes...I want to try that salad!
Susan
I'm having a dinner party tonight and am having the slow-cooker chili in the crock pot (recipe found towards the back), and I also prepared the onion/bacon dip.
You are just so lovely. Your posts & tweets make my day. Write a book! I'd carry it with me everywhere & I'd look at the pictures & read your words when the gloom of the world got too much. You are sunshine personified!
Miss Janice everything looks so beautiful on your table dressed for Fall! All of your food items are very delicious looking as well. Your tablescaping and parties are always impeccable.
I would love to attend just one!
I have found door toppers at various places over the last few years. I will list every store that I have seen them at and I do hope you find something beautiful very soon. They are such a wonderful way to add charm and style to a room. One of my favorite things to decorate with.
Ebay, Pier 1, Kirklands, Michaels, Marshalls, Ross, TJMaxx, HomeGoods, Ballards catalog, and the best source to me is the "Touch of Class" catalog online. Good Luck!
~Many Blessings, ~Melissa :)
Oh how neat to see one of the very first comments I ever left for you here. I began blogging on the 1st of November 08'. :)
What a lovely fall luncheon. I'm so glad you shared this again, because I'm a new blogger and hadn't seen it. I certainly like the color of these dishes and all the details make this a stunning setting. The spoons of southern caviar look delicious, and what a clever way to serve this item.
Beautiful Fall table Miss Janice and the food looks wonderful too!
Happy Weekend!
What a beautiful table! And those recipes sounds wonderful...
Very pretty, so warm and inviting!
Valerie
Great pumpkin cheese ball!
Your Informal Autumn Luncheon is so delicately set out and looks awesome!
Must have been Autumnatious!!!
Just made that word up, but at any rate this looks great,
d
Miss Janice, you do know how to host a party. The Southern Caviar looks yummy. Thanks for sharing all the lovely little thoughtful details.
May I have the recipe for your pumpkin cheese ball?
Might you share the recipe for your darling pumpkin cheese ball? My mouth is watering and so are my eyes - what a lovely tablescape!!!
Hayden Family....I have posted the recipe as a comment on your site...enjoy!
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