Sausage Bouquet in the Pumpkin Frame
>> 7/10/2012
Sausage bouquet and baked garlic |
First time I saw a sausage bouquet at A Mouse On The Table (Visual Food) blog by Rita Loccisano. The bouquet seemed to me a great idea of snack serving. Truly Rita's blog is full of smart food ideas.
I added some carving work to Rita's bouquet and it turned into the sausage bouquet framed in pumpkin.
You need:
a pumpkin of medium size,
sausages,
sprouting onion.
Tools:
paring knife,
toothpicks and bamboo skewers
Pumpkin, sausages and onion |
Cut the punpkin in parts. One part for a base and a central part for a frame. |
Take a central part and remove a pumpkin meat . This is a frame. |
Decorate it with U or V shape knife. |
Decorate a pumpkin base (it's optional) |
now set the frame on the base and fix them using toothpicks |
fix with toothpicks |
Set sausages in bamboo skewers. Looks like a reed, does'n it? |
and arrange the sausages in the pumpkin ring. |
Add some green onion. Small tomatos made the final look. |
While writing this article I got an idea. If you carve a frog out of green bell pepper and set it on the pumpkin base the reed bouquet will get a completely naturalistic look.
By the way, using salt bread sticks instead of wooden skewers let you make the sausage bouquet absolutely edible!
Salted bread sticks |
Edible sausage reed |
Use the pumpkin frame for making vegetable bouquets like on the picture below: