A Christmas tea that's gluten-free!

Last year, at the invitation of my friend Paige, I joined a Group Group at my church, and I greatly enjoyed going through the three-book discipleship series with her and two other women, Beth and Kristi, that I didn’t know very well at the time. A year later, we know ALL about each other, pray for each other (and each other’s families), and still enjoy getting together monthly just to keep in touch! They came to tea on Wednesday, and I told them we should get a photo since we’d never taken one of the four of us together. So that’s myself and Kristi at front and Beth and Paige at back.

As some of you veteran tea-party-givers will appreciate, I ran out of time to photograph everything beforehand, but I did get a couple of photos of the table right before we started eating. Two things I wanted to note here: the cranberry-white chocolate scones at front are a gluten-free recipe I found since one of my friends eats gluten-free. And you can barely see them, but the candy cane cookies at back are also gluten-free. Both got great reviews, as did the pecan pie balls, for which I used the regular recipe but substituted Pamela’s brand of gluten-free graham crackers. We also had my Waldorf Chicken Salad and ambrosia.

And of course I made my usual cucumber sandwiches. I made the spread with my standard go-to recipe (a block of cream cheese mixed with two tablespoons of mayo and a dash each of garlic salt and dill). I spread the mixture thinly on the bread then added thin strips of cucumber sliced with a vegetable peeler. I used regular white bread for three of us and made a smaller plate of sandwiches with gluten-free bread. Honestly, it was not hard to make this entire meal gluten-free, and my friend was so touched that I did. So if you’re eating gluten-free or entertaining gluten-free, you may wish to check out these recipes!

Scones: https://justasgoodglutenfree.com/gluten-free-cranberry-scones/

Candy cane cookies: https://www.goglutenfreely.com/gluten-free-candy-cane-cookies/

Pecan pie balls: https://www.enzorecipes.com/pioneer-woman-pecan-pie-balls/