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Tuesday 12 April 2011

Food Art and Craft/Carving




Sliced guavas & carrots on a cabbage leaf
(Using a flower shape cookie cutter cut out flowers from the centre of sliced
guavas & carrots. Replace the flowers of carrot with guava & vice versa)



Sliced orange topped with black grapes, cherry , spinach
(moustache) Guava ( rays & clouds),apple, papaya & lettuce(greens)
To make guava triangles for rays - divide a slice of guava into 8
segments n arrange around the orange slice.



Fruity Traffic Lights Sandwich



Sandwich filled with Peanut butter & apple chunks ,topped
with colorful apples (cut the colorful slices from the sides of the
apples , dab a little PB to fix to the bread )

Fruit-o- lantern


Skewered Black grapes & carved cape
gooseberries (rasbhari/physalis) . Use yellow
tomatoes in absence of the berries .


For the lollies- Core n divide the Apple in
four. Draw a heart or make a heart impression
with a cookie cutter & gently peel off. Soak for 5
mins in lemon water to prevent browning .
Pat dry , top on skewers n serve......




Guava flowers - made by cutting the guavas
through an apple corer slicer


Gift theme Sandwiches- white n brown bread, carrots n cucumber


Sliced & lighly tossed baby corn with cucumber & carrot



Bread, jam / jelly , sprinkles, strawberries, chocolates
gadgets- heart shape cookie cutters in 2 graduating sizes .



Rice, beet juice, salt, lemon juice , lettuce
n flavorings of your choice .

Diwali Lamps (Diya)


Cucumber & carrot slices
Diya- Cut out a crescent from a side of a cucumber slice
using a circular cookie cutter or a bottle cap .
Flame- cut out crescents from both the sides of a carrot
slice to make a drop shape flame. Assemble .



Make the desired pattern on a platter using tomato
sauce( fill in squeeze bottle or use a sachet ). Arrange
the sprouts /soaked /boiled lentils & veggies.



Krackjack buiscuits /Graham crackers , julienned cucumber
tomato sauce .


For The fireworks rocket - Oblong bread rolls & tomato/ cottage
cheese/ cucumber triangles on a skewer .
Spinach murukku/chakli and mini swiss rolls (fireworks spirals)

Elmo Fruitoon

Watermelon slice ,cucumbers, olives & carrot




Watermelon , olives, cucumber , jelly sticks /shoestring licorice
( Divide a slice of watermelon in half , using a circular cookie
cutter or a bottle cap cut out semicircles from the straight side
of the melon , use finely cut strips of cucumber to make
umbrella divisions & raindrops . Bend a jelly stick to
make the handle . )



Carrot , baked potato


Skewered Red n green grapes mounted
on a banana

Hickory Dickory Dock
The mouse went up the clock ....


Clock - Orange slice, pieces of grape peels , celery
Mouse- Strawberry , sliced grapes for ears , mini mint
candies for eyes , black grape slice for nose



Bread ( cut with a circular cookie cutter ) , lettuce, red cabbage ,
carrot,capsicum , olives, chocolate coated candy gems , corn .

Drums


orange, grapes 


Hard boiled egg, spinach, red cabbage n carrot .
Gadget - flower shape craft punches
Punch out flowers from spinach , red cabbage n
carrot slices , stick on the egg with mayo .



hard boiled eggs, savory loops , spinach n beet juice
or few drops of edible color .
Divide the egg into two halves , cut a thick slice from
the ends to make a stable base for the baskets. Soak the
slices in spinach/ beet juice or edible color ( few drops
mixed in half a cup of water ) . Once the desired color is
achieved pat dry n place on the basket. Cut a savory loop
in half n place as handles .


Bread, cheese , carrot, cucumber , olives


Bread,cheese ,cucumber ,olives ,egg, armenian cucumber (kakdi)


Bread, cheese , carrot, olives , egg


Bread, cheese , carrot, cucumber , olives , egg, tomato sauce






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