Recipes: Fancy Salads

Greetings to all my Friends!

For a wonderful, time consuming, aesthetically pleasing, salad, read on! Even if you would never make these, they are very pretty to look at, so you might want to skim this post anyway.

The salad is based on a salad we made in a cooking class I had last year. We had four types of lettuce, peeled cucumbers and rolled the peels into tiny swirls, and so much more. The cucumber roles alone took me 2 entire episodes of "My Cat from Hell," a TV show with a cat whisperer who goes around retraining cats, and their owners, as he likes to point out. They are each 45 minutes long.

It's hard to see, but in the middle is a rose made out of a tomato peel. Around the edges are apples and oranges (blood oranges look the prettiest). We also have strawberries, cheese, cucumber peels, and radish-mushrooms in the salad.

This one has a strawberry rose in the middle.

Recipe:

There is no set recipe for this. All you need is a few salad ingredients. I can, however, tell you how to make the food art.

Tomato Roses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHYOvwtFss
Blood Orange "Suns"

First, peel the orange as if you were peeling a small orange. Do not cut it.

Then, with one orange wedge, carefully cut it in half the long way, starting with the wide side. Do not cut it all the way through.

Then, open it up.

This is also hard to put in words with no pictures. Sorry! If you don't get it, leave a comment and ask about it. I'll try to find some pictures/diagrams for you.

Radish Mushrooms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-exJ3rF4Dw

Have food fun, Friends!

Spruce Nogard