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Some of the artistic techniques for serving food:

• Add candles in a variety of arrangements to your dining table.
• Use pretty dishes, even mix and match ones when you don’t have complete sets.  I recall the attractive serving dishes my aunt used for family meals, even just a cut glass pickle dish or flowered jelly jar.
• Find attractive or themed placemats and napkins.  These may be ones you’ve made or purchased.  Those handed down through the family add memories to the meal.
• Arrange food with eye appeal on plates and serving dishes.
• Plan your meals with coordinating colors.  I recall my home economics teacher, in junior high, telling us not to serve all one color on a plate, but try to vary them.
• Learn to use garnishes that add color and variation: sprigs of parsley, radish curls or rosettes, strips or rounds or red and green peppers, a sprinkle of paprika, a dab of relish, chocolate curls or shavings, marshmallow petals, etc.
• Arrange a centerpiece…flowers, fruit bowl, a toy for tots, small knick-knacks, candles, holiday themes.  Children enjoy creating table decorations, too.

How do you add art to your meals?

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Add Art to Food Preparation & Serving

Meet Eyeball Caprese by Lenore.

I haven’t fallen in love with food art like this in years. I must make my own and photograph them endlessly.

Get yourself over to Evil Mad’s for the full how-to on this tasteful art.

Are you going to throw any Halloween parties?

(Image courtesy L. Marie’s flickr.)

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Tasty Eyeball Food Art for Halloween