To give vent to imagination, to apply creativity in the design of dishes means to acquire a good mood from the process itself and successfully hold both a solemn and an ordinary home dinner, accompanied by praise for your taste, sophistication and skill.
Decorating a meal with your own hands is not at all a professional skill, not a carving, but with some effort and a little time, you can design a table beautifully, like in a restaurant.
Some color tricks
First of all, you need to decide on the color palette. The use of food colors, such as beetroot juice or caramel extract, will help to enrich it significantly. You can prepare these products in advance and store them in the refrigerator. It’s easy to get school juice : chopped peeled root vegetables finely, pour a small amount of water, boil on a stove or in the microwave, add vinegar, strain and store in a glass dish. These will be different shades of red. For the same purpose, you can use raspberries, cranberries, cherries, currants. Cocoa, chocolate, coffee, caramel will give shades of brown. Onion peel is also good, giving color to the broth for aspic and egg white. Spinach and sorrel will color the product green. Orange zest and tomato - in orange. Thus, you can make colored mayonnaise or any cooked sauce to decorate a meat or fish snack. The process of decorating a dish with your own hands requires inspiration, like any other kind of creativity. And creativity is inherent in everyone, especially if you heat up the desire with appropriate photos and accompany tips.
Finely chop finely-colored bell peppers, each separately, olives, olives. Roll small balls of grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise, roll them and stick into each toothpick or small skewer. Nice and comfortable. On a large dish, lay them in groups among pickled cucumbers arranged fan-shaped, boiled stuffed eggs, beautifully sliced components for the salad. For example, beets, carrots, potatoes can be chopped using various molds to make leaves, petals and other figures. Jellies and jellies are decorated in the same way. You can collect whole pictures: huts, bouquets, aquariums and so on. And, of course, everyone knows how flowers are made from vegetables: thin slices rolled up in a bag, and in them there is a green pea, a pecker or a drop of mayonnaise. From an ordinary onion, an exceptionally bright and elegant decoration can be prepared using an ordinary knife.
Fruit decorationFruits themselves will make up the entire color spectrum, they are the best decoration of the festive table. The main thing for decorating a dish with your own hands is to carefully chop the fruit and combine it with taste. They perfectly decorate the festive table in any serving option, but you can make it very effective. If you simply fold the circles of orange, grapefruit, lemon from large to small, you get a figure resembling a flower, and kiwi will help to depict the leaves in this garland. From bananas, the same kiwi, tangerine slices and a circle of orange, you can make a picture from the cartoon "Chunga Changa" - with palm trees, an island, the sun and the sea. As a result of decorating the dish with your own hands, peacocks and hedgehogs are obtained from fruits, not only palm trees, but also Christmas trees, even with toys. In any case, those gathered at the festive table are invariably delighted with the appearance of a fruit plate. Children are especially happy, who can also be involved in the process of decorating dishes with their own hands.