Since we had a blue and white tablescape for our daughter Katie’s birthday on Saturday I’m combining Blue Monday and Tablescape Tuesday this week! My sister Lana G! was over and helped with the details on the tablescape while Dear and I prepared dinner for the party. Dear made both soups we were serving for the dinner. His famous Tomato Rice Soup is one he’s been making since his college days from Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. The second soup was a Potato Leek Soup with Bacon and Havarti cheese that we used the best of 3 recipes to come up with. Both soups were yummy and well received.
My daughter Katie gave me the star bundt cake pan for Christmas so I decided to make her the Bundt Spice cake she enjoys. Here are the thick hearty soups we served along with bread and salad…
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Photobucket is holding all my photos from 2007 to 2015 hostage and has replaced them all with ugly black and grey boxes asking for a ransom to have them re-published. Such a frustrating bother as I go through each post to delete the ugly boxes.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
And a wonderful time it was! Goodnight! Peace on you and your household sister!! 🙂
Ellen, this is wonderful! I love the whole tablescape, and that food looks delicious! I love your blue plates and the cute blue bow on that cake! Beautiful as usual. Happy Birthday to your dear one!
XO,
Sheila 🙂
I’m craving the potato leek soup….and the spice cake- Mmmm! I may have to get that star bundt pan it makes a very pretty cake. Your tablesetting is very pretty. The blue tablecloth with the all white dishes very elegant. Happy Holidays! ~ Robyn
I love those dishes and that cake looks so yummy! Wish I had a piece of it right about now!
Happy Blue Monday!
Love, Ann
Oh Ellen how beautiful everything looks.
Your dishes are stunning!!
Happy Blue Monday and Happy New Year
See you soon
Claudie from Canada
How wonderful everything looks..I love it all..the soups..yummy. Happy Blue Monday..have a lovely day.
What a stunning table and what a lucky girl to have such talented parents. It looks like it was a wonderful birthday.
Happy New year to you!
Kim
What a festive birthday dinner! I love the cake you made!
wow what a fabulous layout and certainly a wonderful collection of ‘blue’ – hope you all had a wonderful evening. Happy New Year, judith
The table looks gorgeous and your daughter looks very happy! I’d never have thought of serving 2 soups, what a great idea!
A belated Happy B-day to Katie! I love the star cake pan. Perfect for a Christmas birthday celebration.
Blue and white always make an outstanding tablescape. Your beautiful daughter looks happy with her pretty cake. Happy Blue Monday!
Soup is a perfect choice for this oaccasion and time!! Your table is set so nicely and Katie looks very pleased with it all! The star cake is very pretty! Happy times for all!
Beautiful table!! You always have such pretty tables. What a wonderful celebration. I’m curious now….what do you have hanging from the chandelier? Looks like pictures. I am guessing pictures of the birthday girl. If so, that is a cute idea too!
Everything looks wonderful! The table looks crisp and clean….and the food yummy!
What a great party! I absolutely love your tablescape. I like the topper on the cake too. Really neat idea. Such pretty blue. Happy Blue Monday. Happy birthday Katie!
I haven’t baked a bundt cake in years, but I may have to dig out my bundt pan – I’m really getting cravings! What a beautiful table setting! Beautiful blues for Blue Monday.
Beautiful tablescape and dishes! Happy birthday to your DD. Happy Blue Monday!
The blue bowls! The blue tablecloth! Beautiful!
The birthday party fare looks yummy!
Everything looks gorgeous.
Oh my…. those blue bowls…. that wonderful star cake….. what a lovely party for a lovely daughter…
HUgs
Linda
Hi!
Looks like a wonderful party! Love your plates and that cake looks yummy! Thanks for stopping by my place. Have a great New Year!
Sherrie
All I can say is WOW. how perfectly beautiful. The star bundt pan is fabulous and festive and I love the photo with the candles lit. You both look great. I can’t forget the food. Yum!! Thanks for sharing your blue today.
Hugs…Jeanne
So very pretty…and the table is too! LOL
I really like the blue & white dishes.
Happy New Year!
once again…white dishware…the fabulous staple of any decor! YEAH (ok, do i appear biased?) LOL
it sure looks like there was great fun to be had by all…and my goodness who would not? how great is that table?
and to have homemade goodies..that is always the best!
ellen thank you so much for your blog visit and kind words 🙂
Oh Yum ! the soup looks so good. Love your blue bowls .
Love the blue soup bowls! Like the cake with the blue too! Simple, lovely table!
Man, those soups look good! And that cake is too cute!
Love your table too w/ the strong blue base w/ all white dishes. Very nice!
Yum! Everything looks delicious. Pretty table! Have a safe and happy New Years! Michelle
Oh my goodness. Not only did you set a wonderful table you served some delicious looking goodies here.. hugs ~lynne~
The table is lovely and the food looks delicious. That reminds me, it’s time to get in the kitchen and start fixing dinner. Now you’ve made me hungry for soup. Would love to have a piece of that cake too.
Happy New Year.
Charlotte
Ellen, thanks for visiting my blog! What a wonderful family you have and so happy you could be together like that! That Miss Hope in the red coat, to precious.
Your Tablescape is so pretty and just right for New Years, food looks yummy! What a nice time!
What part of Washington do you hope to get back to?
I am in Washington, North of Everett.
We are happy to be thawing out, now going to get back to rain and rain and wind this week!
Blessings to you and yours ,
Linda
the soups look lovely and I really like the star cake!!
What a wonderful setting, it looks so elegant. The cake gets 5 ***** ‘s
Have a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
‘D’
Hello; Wow I love the cake, it sure looks very yummy… As for you table setting it is so lovely, it reminds me of ice and snow, that is a good thing. lol Love the bottom photo how sweet they are.
Happy New Year.
Hugs;
Alaura
Everything looks lovely…love those bowls and the soups look sooo yummie!
HAPPY NEW YEAR, HAPPY NEW DREAMS COME TRUE!
Beautiful! The cake is amazing! And I want ALL the soups! YUM! You must be a fab cook…everything looks wonderful! Love the simplicity of the white tablescape…so elegant! Thanks for another wonderful TT. Happy New Year to you and your family!
Susan
How beautiful! The white dishes on the blue , I just love it! The cake is so great! I want a star pan! lol Happy Birthday to your daughter!