Weeks and weeks before my sister was due to return home to South Africa after spending 18 months in South Korea, I asked her the same question; what do you miss most about home and more specifically, what foods do you miss most. What she missed most was going to be the theme I planned her home coming party around.
Her answers were always the same, "besides family, there is nothing else I miss." When pressed about what food she missed most, her reply was always, "scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, flap jacks with maple syrup and carrot cake with real cream cheese icing."
This left me in a bit of a dillema. She was landing in SA at about 5.30pm on Friday evening. Knowing that my family would all be at my home that evening to see her, I didn't want to postpone her homecoming party to the next day so it would accomadate a breakfast menu. So I decided to do a fun, quirky, breakfast inspired dinner party.
Guests were asked to come along in their pjs, and most did!
We wanted to do a fun, cheerful, laid back, shabby chic type setting. Polka dots (on the boxes, banner and serviettes) added a playful touch. We filled Moroccan tea tumblers with slightly distressed roses and dotted them around the table. Boxes added dimension to the table and also introduced pops of colour.
We needed to make sure that the menu was both breakfast inspired but filling enough for dinner. We served Chicken Waffle Sliders, Salmon and Avo Bruchetta, Fritata Cups, Pepperdew Muffins, Chops and Spinach and Feta Parcels.
To drink we made iced teas; strawberry/basil, pomegranate/orange, lemon/lime. We also flavoured water with herbs and fruit.
We set up a waffle/flapjack station with toppings like chocolate sauce, cream, caramel, nuts, sweets, chocolate and fruit. We also had fruity frozen yogurt cups (mango, cherry, strawberry and passion fruit), fruit skewers, my aunt's famous chocolate cake and of course, carrot cake slices for dessert.
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