Are you looking for a last minute idea for a decorative 4th July watermelon salad bowl to bring to a party? Here is an idea for you. A red, white and blue star spangled fruit salad.
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How to Peel a Watermelon Fast – Cool New Tool
Here’s a great new gadget for easy peeling of watermelons.
Food Coloring for Vegetable and Fruit Carvings
Other than the standard blue,yellow,red and green food coloring found in grocery stores I have not been able to locate food coloring that gives a pastel shade to carvings. I suppose I could mix red and blue and try to come up with an acceptable shade of purple but was wondering if oriental/asian stores handle […]
Soap Carving
If you want to make carvings that don’t get eaten….or that won’t eventually spoil, you can make soap carvings. Using the same techniques and carving knives that are used to carve fruits, you can make beautiful carvings in soap. Take a look at these photos.
Roses made with Citrus Peels
Do you have a lemon, tangerine or orange tree with plentiful fruit? Here’s something fun you can do with them to make your next meal prettier. I was recently given a whole bunch of fresh lemons and tangerines which prompted me to make this quick video showing you an easy way to make roses with […]
Another Fruit Carving Improvisation – Melon Swans
Here is one way that of my customers has improvised with beautiful results. In my Hearts and Roses video lessons, I show how to make swans from apples. One of my customers, Al Kitchen in Arizona, used the same design concept to create a beautiful swans from honeydew melon.
Improvise with your Vegetable Carvings – Squash and Radish Bouquet
Remember the old saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention”? I think it applies to fruit and vegetable carving. There will be plenty of times that you are in the middle of preparing a carving and realize that you don’t have all the ingredients that you need. Or, you may want to create a carving […]
