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Make Your Food Seem To Come To Life With Simple Garnishes

Food only taste as good as it looks. People eat with their eyes first. The only limitation is your imagination. Garnishes can be very simple and only take a few minutes and can make the world of difference. Garnishes are meet to enhance the appearance of an item not to cover it up. More is not always better.

Suggestions and Tips:

When making Devil eggs use a crinkle cutter and pastry bag with a star tip (6B,4B, or 2D) to fill them. Line the tray first with kale or loose leaf.

You can also use those same tip for mashed potatoes. You can pipe a border around the edge.
When using lemons cut groove into the them before slicing. Or if using a half of lemon then cut them with a jagged edge instead of flat.

Cut grooves into the sides of oranges and then slice them and float them in fruit punch.

Hollow out a watermelon and cut a rounded zig zag edge and use it as a punch bowl. Cut a little off the bottom to stabilize it. But kale, loose leaf lettuce or flowers around it.

Freeze cherries, grapes, ect in ice cube and use them in the punch. Use hot water as this will freeze clear.
Make a small batch of punch and freeze it and use it to cool the punch so that when it melts it wouldn't dilute the punch.

If serving chicken or fish put loose leaf lettuce or Kale under it.

When making tray (I.E fruit,vegetable,cheese ect) line the dish with kale or loose leaf lettuce first.

Make a radish mouse and place it in the center of a cheese tray.

Soften butter and place it in candy molds and put in freezer till hard then pop them out and keep then in refrigerator till ready to use.

Hollow out an acorn squash or small pumpkin and use them to serve dips.

Use peppers as bowl to serve mustard, ketchup, ect.

If you are make stuffed celery use a star tip and pastry bag and fill them with peanut butter, cream cheese ect. Then serve them on a tray lined with kale.

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