Watermelon Carving and Vegetable Flowers

The photo shows how I carved an inscription in a small watermelon.

First, I carved the inscription in a green skin.
After peeling, I carved the waves in red flesh of the watermelon.
Then, the roses around the inscription.
And finished the design with the side elements.

The inscription and the waves

 The watermelon was in a small size, so I carved small flowers of daikon and carrot. To get the flowers of the same size, I picked a thin daikon and the most thick carrot. Can you imagine my shopping process? :) I can be a very picky shopper when it comes to carving purpose. I am sure you do the same! 

Flowers carved of carrot and daikon

The complete carving display

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Miniature Carrot Flowers

Flowers carved out of carrot.

Carved with a thai knife. 

The miniature flowers were carved for no purpose, just for practice. I think they can make a nice garnishe for a salad.

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Miniature carrot flowers

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Carved with a thai knife

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Easter Dinner

You might  heard that Russian Easter was celebrated on the 15th of April, the last Sunday. I have posted some pictures of our Easter food at my Facebook page. Today I'd like to give more details about it.

The main Easter food in Russia is Kulich or Easter cake. Kulich is a pastry with raisins. The cake on the picture below is not my baking. I bought it at a shop. Mine was the decorative part. Several months ago I purchased a special plate to display Easter food. The plate has cells for eggs which help to arrange them nicely around the plate. I have a few ideas of using this plate in a routine life. 

By the way have you seen my Food Wonder Tree? :))

Kulich and easter eggs

Roasted chicken garnished with carrot flowers. I used a carrot curler to do the flowers.

Apply some salt and spicies onto a chicken skin and inside the chicken and leave for 2-3 hours. Set a chicken in a roaster and bake in a middle fire for 2 hours.

I recieved a photo from my friends with thier Esater cooking. They had a lot of baking (click the photo for a closer look):

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Halloween Disney Garnish From Carrot

Look at what I bought in Tokyo Disney Land. This is a Mickey Lantern keychain.

Halloween Disney lantern

I made a Mickey copy in carrot. It is absolutely edible.
Carved with a thai knife.

Mickey carrot garnish  for Halloween food

Chicken, salad and carrot Mickey garnish

There are a chicken fry with soft dough (my chicken tempura:)) and pumpkin salad on the picture above. For the salad I used the pumpkin I practiced the thai design in. I never throw away carving waste and my carved fruit and vegetables. I bake and fry them or store in a fridge for the future cooking.

Pumpkin salad ingredients:
radish,
cucumber,
raw pumpkin,
vegetable oil
salt

Check up more salad recipes with garnishes

Linked to:
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Create n Carve - Fruit and Vegetable Round-Up, September 2011

I am excited to announce the entries for Create n Carve ~ Fruit and Vegetable Event, September 2011. I would like to say THANKS to all participants. Thank you for your interest, your support, creativity and willing to share your food crafts!

A special thanks to Karla Baumhover, a president of TempleOfThai for promoting the Event on Facebook pages.

I make the Round-Up post today because I will be out for a short trip to Japan. I am going to visit a big Carving Contest in Tokyo and learn carving art from the japanese teachers (read the trip report here). I will stay away of my blog from Sep 29 to Oct 6.

There are a few days left till the end of September. So you still have a chance to send me your fruit and vegetable crafts. I will add them to this page upon my arrival on the 6th of October, 2011. I accept any level  projects from beginers and advnaced artists. To learn something new visit my Fruit and Vegetable Carving Instructions and pick up a good knife.

Create n Carve ~ Fruit and Vegetable Round Up

September 2011

Sadaf Afshan

Fruit Arrangements 

with nice fruit kebabs and a melon basket made for Ramadan with a help of her 4 years old daughter

Dave Scott

Watermelon Shark

Dave is an owner of a eRecipeCards.com, a website there you can share your recipes.

I think the Watermelon Shark would be a great dessert server for Halloween party.

Nayna

Intricate Watermelon Carving

Nayna is an originatior of the Create n Carve Event.

For making fruit and vegetable centerpieces Naya uses a knife only.

Another entry from Nayna

Iced Orange and Apple Tea

A recipe and a nice drink garnish

Jeffrey Screen (1ofakindwork)

Melon Lantern aka Chinese Lantern

A farm themed watermelon lantern with detaled instructions and pictures. Carved with a paring knife!

Amy

Flower Pot With A Cherry Tomato

Amy's garnishes are simple and cute. 

Amy is the most active participant in September Event, has shared several fruit and vegetable projects.

Amy

A Bunch Of Flowers With A Carrot

A nice appitizer served as a flower bouquet

Amy

Fresh Fruit Kebabs and converting it to a food garnishing idea

Healthy and nicely presented food

Amy

Apple Penguin

Amy has a lot of ideas and the Apple Penguin is one of them.
Instuction is inside.

Amy

Fruit Basket With An Orange

Instruction is inside

Pradnya

Ganpati Bappa Morya

Click the link to see all the fruit and vegetable arrangements made for Ganesh Festival.

That was the first attempt of Pradnya in fruit carving art.

First attempt, but made with love!

And a few entries from me

Selena Ze Arteest

Fruit and Vegetable Topiary

Fruit and vegetable bouquets arranged in a tall vase.

Made for wedding party.

Selena Ze Arteest

Watermelon Carving Class

Pictures from my class on watermelon carving

Selena Ze Arteest

Bible Pumpkin

A strange and atypical idea came to my mind...

Johnny English 
Leek Garnish

This is a joke. Love the movie and the final teaser with Johnny English cooking.

Rita Loccisano

Un'idea creativa per far mangiare le mele ai vostri bimbi?

A cute apple worm says Hello to you

How-to video is inside

Kazi Taslima Sayera,

a cooking trainer from Bangladesh

Vegetable Vessel

Carving is his hobby. He has no website yet.

Martina Jackson

Fruit Bouquet

Martina is a Facebook and blogger friend of mine. 

This bouquet was a first attempt for Martina to make an edible bouquet. 

http://www.whatocook.com/recipes-blog.html

All these entries were submitted to Create n Carve ~ Fruit and Vegetable Event, September 2011. The Round-up page is promoted at Facebook pages, food blogs communities, at Bloggersbase, BlogUpp, submitted to link parties and other news derictories that I use for my blog promotion.

If you want to share a fruit/vegetable creation, a dish/drink garnish or any project, feel free to send it to my email up to the end of September (read the details here). If you are not ready to participate in September 2011 Event, you are welcome to the next roundup (follow the Event updates at simplyfood events page).

Have a happy carving!

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