Let's Paint Your Sandwich. Cute Salami, Tomato and Cucumber Garnishes

More posts about sandwich art:

Mukimono - The Japanese Method of Food Garnishing

Culinary Art Every Day

Gnome Sandwiches

Sandwiches with Cucumber Garnish

'Carrot' Sandwich with Caviar

Sandwich Art

Let's paint your sandwich.
Tomato flower, cucumber garnish, salami butterfly

Cute Sandwiches Method:

Easy and quick garnishes out of tomato cherry, cucumber and olives to paint a sandwich with bright colors.
Salami and smoke sausage for calories.

Smoke sausage and cucmber,
a small copy of the sausage bouquet

Olive, tomato and cucumber
Tomato win!

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Fruit adn Vegetable Classes and Live Demo

This week I was travelling to some neighboring towns with carving demonstrations and classes. I had fruit and vegetable carving activities in schools and in a new trading center for its opening ceremony. Many things were showed. They were new and old ideas like a fruit snowman, vegetable and fruit mini arrangements and sandwich decorating ideas. 

Sandwiches decorated with cucumber.
Crhistmas tree, butterfly and ornament made with cucumber slices.
Check up Cucumber pictures

Baby Penguin from a marrow squash

Fruit exotic flowers arranged into a bouquet
See the downloadable tutorial how to make flowers with fruits

It has been snowing for several days. I would like to share an image that looks fabulous. 

Mounting ash barry tree in snow. The berries looks like bells. Cristmas bells made by Nature.

View of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, my native city.
There are lot of  mounting ashberry trees  along the city  streets.

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Vegetarian Rolls With Pickled Radish and Cucumber Garnish

More japanese recipes:
Mukimono the Japanese Method for Garnishing
Bento the Japanese Lunch Box
Salad With Daikon and Syabu Syabu Sauce

For Vegetarian rolls you need:

rice,

carrot,

cucumber,

pickled radish

pickled ginger.

Korean pickled radish (daikon)

Japanese pickled ginger Syoga

Cook rice. Prepare vegetable for rolls.Boil carrot, skin cucumber and cut. Keep the peeled cucumber skin for plate garnishing. Unpack ginger and add ginger vinegar to the cooked rice (one or two teaspoons for a rice bowl). 

I make rolls with a help of silicone mat Makisu (made by Lekue company, Spain)

Dish rolls up with pickled ginger and soy sauce. Make knots out of cucumber skin to garnish rolls (see carrot knots at my tutorial page).

Submitted to:

 Create n Carve ~ Fruit and Vegetable August 2011 event by simply.food guest hosted by Dinner recipes by Sonias Kitchen.

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Vegetable Plate And a Pair Of Carved Birds. Using Cucumber Garnishes

Vegetable parrot birds and vegetable plate presentation for a wedding party (Gagarin Restaurant). For this vegetable display I used samurai cucumber garnish, thai lotus garnish from cucumber, lilly form carrot and simple flowers cut out from a beetroot.

Material:
Japanese radish,
carrot,
cucumber (Mukimono cut method)
broccoli,
tomato,
pepper

Weddings in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Russia

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Plate Food Garnish - Part 1

Look for easy garnishing:

Sandwich Art. Cucumber, Tomato and Salami Garnishes

Mukimono The Japanese Food Carving

Japanese Food Garnish - Mukimono Method

Today I'll show how to decorate a plate with small garnishes. I made these plates for my fruit carving presentation in the Russian-American Trading Business Center in Sakhalin.

Check up my carving tutorials. Free downloads.

Plate #1: cucumber, tomato, lemon garnish

Plate #2: cucumber garnish and radish garnish.

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Tools For Making Edible Arrangements

More tools usage:

Baller

Thai Knife

Video about easy garnishes and tools usage

Cutters

Candles, roses, golden daisy and callas are all made of vegetables like a carrot, daikon (lobo), cucumber, radish and cabbage.

The most of these things are carved with the peeler-decorator as shown below:

I am working now on the tutorial "10 Awesome Things Made With The Peeler-Decorator". Don't miss it! Follow me on Blogger or subscribe via email to stay updated with the latest news.

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Parrot Jacques

More articles:
Melon Basket With Leaf Pattern
Kids Carving Class
Vegetable Arrangement At Bamboo Restaurant

I was engaged to make some fruit plates for a chocolate fountain presentation. Parrot Jacques is one of three fruit plates I have made for the party.




Ingredients:
Grape,
Mandarin,
Strawberry

Parrot Jacques and its environment:
Daikon,
Carrot,
Cucumber

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"Mukimono" The Japanese Method Of Food Garnishing. Cucumber

More articles:
Mukimono Art The Japanese Food Carving
Vegetable Plate and Birds From Radish. Mukimono Cucumber Garnish
Plating Techniques

Mukimono is a traditional japanese art of carving vegetables and food garnishing. Some of the japanese garnishes are simple and easy to do and some other methods are intricated. Carrot, daikon or cucumber help to complete a look of a dish when you know a couple of special Mukimono techniques.





Maple and ginko leaves, curlies, marine creature etc.

Original pictures






Mukimono video - A Special Way Of Cutting Cucumber

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Fountain Of Love

More articles:
Wedding Watermelon With Birds Pattern, Evergreen Bar
Wedding Party in Marine Style, Olympia Park
Edible Decoration For Weddings

"Fountain of Love" fruit arrangement for a wedding party at MegaPalace Hotel.

Vegetable carving arrangement is made from:
Leek,
Cucumber,
Horse radish,
Carrot.

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Cucumber Picture

Related articles:
Mukimono Cute Garnishes
Cucumber, Tomato and Salami Garnishes. Sandwich Art #1
Plate Food Garnish. Part 1: Lemon and Cucumber
How To Garnish Plate. Part 2: Tomato and Olives

These cucumber garnishes are made of two easy elements, two types of a "fan" garnish. Place them on the plate edge or on top of salad with a flat surface. I decorate open sandwiches with the cucumber butterflies.

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Culinary Art Every Day

More articles:
The Best Way To Enjoy GarnishBlog
Thai Carving Class In Japanese Club

I have often been asked by people in my class about using carving centerpieces in a routine life. I am told 'OK, I learned how to make such beautiful things, but how can I use them to garnish food on my plate? On your website I can see a lot of garnishes but without food ideas'.

I absolutely agree with the statement. Food is primary and garnishes are just an accent dedicated to present food nicely.
In this blog I have sections about easy garnishes, drink garnishes and fruit carving arrangements. Read this blog if you want to get idea about daily food decorating and then 'Easy Garnish' is your section. Read this blog if you want to go further and get ideas how to make fruit and vegetable carving arrangements for buffet table and other display exhibitions. Read this blog if you are looking for ideas about family entertaiment and time with kids and then YouTube Video Section could be also in help.

I would be glad to recive your feedback. Feel free to ask and comment.

And back to the topic. I would like to represent you my video "Culinary Art Every Day" with garnishing techniques and nice food pictures.

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Salad Garnishing

Salad Garnishing

 "Morning in Beijing" and "Dragon Tail",  both salad dishes are very simple, fast and fresh.

Ingredients:
cabbage
chinese salad
carrot
cucumber
I don't salt them.

To make a salad nicely presented you need special tools.
A peeller to peel vegetable and to grate cabage.
A bowl-shaped knife for making cucumber bowls.
A cookie cutter for making stars out of carrot.
And a special cutter for zigzag carrot.





More articles:
Orange Stars
Thai Carving Class In Japanese Club
Fruit Display Before And After

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