Are you hosting Thanksgiving this year? Sometimes entertaining can be intimidating- especially when it comes to the cooking! Here are some helpful tips to make your food look as good as it tastes.
Shave a bar of chocolate with a vegetable peeler to make curls
Snip chives and scatter over a dip
Cut the top off of a pineapple and add to a fruit platter
Float lemon slices in lemonade or apples slices in cider
Brush herbs and fruit with egg white or melted corn syrup and dust with sugar for a wintry look
Make strawberry fans by slicing lengthwise and leaving the stem intact
Dust desserts with cocoa powder, cinnamon, or powdered sugar
Hollow out a bell pepper to hold dip
Use curly kale to give texture and color to cheese platters
Chop off the base of a bunch of celery (about 4") for a celery "flower"
Stay away from symmetry- no one wants to eat food that looks like it's lined up in a cafeteria!
Build a mountain of cheese and have grapes cascading from the top.
Mix up that veggie tray.
Make a ring out of that boring cheese ball and put jam in the center.
Place pots and pans of different heights underneath the tablecloth to give your buffet table some scale. Place different dishes on top to keep things from looking flat.
Tuck fresh herbs into the edges of trays.
Most of all, get creative and have fun. If you don't like the results, don't worry- it'll get eaten anyway!
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| Strawberry fans |
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Sugared cranberries and mint (rosemary works well too)
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A celery "flower"
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