Roasted Vegetable Tea Sandwich Filling
For our most recent Facebook Live event, we focused on savories - primarily fillings for tea sandwiches. I demonstrated how to make choux pastry for puffs. Most people think of these puffs as a sweet - filled with pastry creams and sometimes topped with chocolate or a sprinkling of powdered sugar. But they make a great sandwich base for richly flavored fillings like curried chicken salad or the delightful roasted vegetable-cream cheese filling featured in this post. The color of this filling is amazing. And the flavor is wonderful - the roasting brings out the sweetness of the carrots and peppers with the addition of the deep purple red onion. The binder is cream cheese and the sharp creamy cheese with the roasted vegetables is divine. Spread it on a nice wheat bread or pipe it into choux puffs, as we demonstrated, and you have a tasty treat for your tea time guests. Carrots, red & orange bell peppers, and red onion prepped for mixing with olive oil and Italian seasoning befor...
