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Garnishing Tips




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Dessert Sauces


Consider creating a decorative pattern in your desserts sauces. Start with a creme glaze of melted custard that has been allowed to cool. (Tip: A cheat for this is melted ice cream.) Pour the sauce into a plate and use a spoon to smooth it out evenly.

Using a bottle with a needle-nose spout and some raspberry puree, create evenly spaced horizontal stripes across the top of the glaze.

Next, use a toothpick to create a design by drawing the point of the toothpick slowly across the stripes (figure B).

Top off this delicious and visually elegant sauce-presentation with a piece of chocolate cake or chocolate cheesecake.



Garnishing Entrees

To dress up a drab-looking entree, add slivers of citrus fruit -- e.g., lime, lemon or orange slices -- and baby-tomato halves. Top the entree off with a pureed sauce that complements the dish.

Finally, add some additional slivers and garnishes atop the sauce to finish off the presentation.

Make certain that the garnishes and sauces are compatible with the entree.



Garnishing Pasta

Consider garnishing a pasta dish by first sprinkling "vegetable confetti" of minced red and yellow peppers.

Then add star-shaped garnishes, or any shapes you choose, cut out of red and yellow peppers using a small cookie cutter.



Garnishing Cheese Trays

Decorate a cheese tray by starting with an attractive arrangement of cheese cut into wedges.

Add cranberries and nuts between the wedges, then decorate the rim of the plate with dried fruits such as apricots.



Garnishing Pies

Consider creating a stencil to make word-art on the plate or saucer on which you'll be serving individual pie slices.

Using the stencil as a guide, sprinkle cinnamon to create word or designs of your choice.



Garnishing Soups, Chili or Stew

Rather than the old stand-by of crackers, consider serving fried tortilla doodles with your soup, chili or stew. These can be made by cutting out coils or other shapes in soft flour tortillas or won-ton wrappers, then deep frying them quickly so that they draw up to make unusual shapes.

Use these, along with perhaps an edible cactus leaf (available from health-food stores) to garnish the soup.

Add a large tortilla garnish to top off the serving bowl.