Sausage Bouquet in the Pumpkin Frame

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,

V-shape or U-shape cutter,

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!