Pleasant Thymes Tea Room & Fine Dining

The first Saturday of every month we host the "PRIME-RIB or Salmon Dinner" @ the Pleasant Thymes Tea Room & Fine Dining. On May 4th we share the day with the Kentucky Derby. The meats will stay the same but amazing foods will be prepared by Sherry that would be made for the Kentucky Derby. She...

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest reighing monarch, will be 92 years of age on April 21, 2019. Her favorite finger sandwiches at High-Tea are smoked salmon, cucumber, egg salad, and ham. I will be serving all four with no crusts or open-faced. The Queen's Tea @ Pleasant Thymes still has 12 ...

The lunch menu is changing with the seasons. Here is the spring menu. 1.) English Tea Sandwich (includes 6 delicate finger sandwiches: egg salad, cucumber, and ham/apple), fresh fruit, and cup of soup. 2.) Seafood Salad served on a bed of spinach, Cucumber/Cilantro Salad, Dinner Roll. 3.)...

This Friday (March 29) is our very first "Fish Night" at Pleasant Thymes Tea Room. RSVP appreciated @ 712-764-2221. Following Dinner~Old Time Gospel Music will be played on the piano & fiddle along with singing.

Today I was delighted with a visit from Kristen Bruun, from Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a "Communication Intern" here in Elk Horn, Iowa at the Museum for Danish America. We had a small tea party and discussed possibilities of some events. I was thrilled to hear her speak Danish, share tea & s...

Spring has sprung! Everyone gets excited about spring; flowers popping up through the ground, grass turning green, the smell of new things in the air, people standing in their yards talking, flying kites, new kittens, baby calves springing up in all the pastures, anticipation of 6 months of no w...

Someone asked me recently if everything in the tea room is homemade? It made me aware that I had never posted that all my recipes are truthfully "homemade". Many are family recipes, many are tweeked recipes from cookbooks, pinterest, newspapers, etc. I LOVE looking through magazines and trying...

These beautiful young faces are three of my granddaughters. They are becoming "cooking/baking" masters of the kitchen. They love coming up to Oma's tea room and being a part of my service to our community. I appreciate their hearts to serve, learn skills, listen and ask questions, grow as youn...

Slanite! Land of a Thousand Welcomes come from Ireland. Under Brehon Law, all households were obliged to provide some good measure of hospitiality to strangers. It included food, drink, bed, and entertainment. Monetary payment was never expected, but exchanges of traveling tales, poetry, and s...