My Entry For Create N Carve - Fruit and Veg Event

Last month I heard about this event but because of the holiday crazies I never entered any of my vegetable or fruit carvings ... come to find out, this event is being hosted on a different blog each month. It is not a contest because their is no judging, it just a friendly event in which you try new things and get better.

Learn more at the event host's blog:

http://www.givemesomespice.com/2011/01/event-announcement-create-and-carve.html

Or learn more about the entire event:

http://simplysensationalfood.blogspot.com/p/simplyfood-events.html

My entry:

"Very Edible Christmas Tree Arrangement"

 

I cut the stem of the broccoli pieces at an angle like a wedge.

 

I used a craft store foam cone, left it in it's wrapper and added a layer of plastic wrap. The broccoli was secured in by toothpicks on the bottom row and then I just slide the next couple of rows in behind the last row.

I only put in toothpicks every couple rows just to hold it together.



For the garland I used carrot curls that I cut to size.

 

I secured the carrot garland with toothpicks, I left the ends of the toothpicks exposed and then added my cherry tomatoes to the exposed ends.

Simple cucumber flower with radish center.



I love using mini bell peppers as flowers, very colorful and simple. Just quarter the pepper down to the stem base taking care not to cut through and cut the membrane out that keeps the peppers shape.

Keep all your veggie flowers in ice cold water so they will start to open and curl like flowers.



Use green onion (just the dark green straw part) to make the wood skewer look more like flower stems.

Simple Vegetable Platter With Veggie Flowers

This was a small and simple vegetable platter I made for a dinner using the extra veggies I had left in my fridge from the large Thanksgiving vegetable arrangement I made!

Vegetable Flower Arrangement

This is a "crudite" or raw vegetable arrangement that looks like a flower arrangement that I made as the main appetizer for Thanksgiving dinner. I used a separate platter to hold the dip in a hollowed-out orange sweet pepper as well as olives and other veggies.

Edible Veggie Bouquets

Found this website that is all about eating raw foods and they have an ebook on how to make edible vegetable bouquets and even has 12 different homemade dressings recipes to go with it.

Visit the website