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Hot Doggity
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Ingredients
2 bananas
2 black-eyed peas
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Directions:
Carve leg shapes into the underside of
one banana. Peel the “legs” away from
the banana and prop with skewers to hold
the body up. With second whole banana,
carve ear shapes into the peel, starting
about half way from the tip. Peel “ears”
back, then cut off head section where
ears start. Make slits for black-eyed
peas and insert “eyes.” Attach head to
body as pictured with toothpicks or
skewers.
Styled and Photographed by Terry
Cylkowski
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Veggie Cycle
Ingredients:
2 slices of red tomato for wheels
6 sections of chives for wheel spokes
1 scallion cut into
5 pieces for frame
1 gherkin pickle for seat
1 slice of green pepper for handlebar
1 slice of green pepper for peddle
1 cauliflower floret for gears
1 fresh mushroom for crossbar
Wash, prep and arrange all items as
pictured.
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Cheese Sails
Ingredients:
1/2 of red
tomato for boat hull
1 cucumber to chop for deck
1 red pepper to chop for deck
2 toothpicks for mast
1 wedge of cheese for sail
Small piece of cabbage leaf for flag
Wash, prep and arrange items as pictured.
Recipe makes one sailboat.
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Paradise Island
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Ingredients:
1 pineapple, cut in half lengthwise
Maraschino cherries
1 green pepper for palm tree leaves
1 large carrot for palm tree trunk
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Directions:
Scoop out inside of pineapple half. Chop
into chunks and place chunks back into
the center of pineapple. Arrange
cherries around inside perimeter of
pineapple. Secure base of carrot into
pineapple. Cut green pepper as pictured
and secure to top of carrot.
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Summer Day
Ingredients:
3 stalks of broccoli for
trees 2 florets of
cauliflower for
clouds
1/4 cup alfalfa sprouts for grass
1/4 cup green peas for
terrain
1/4 cup black-eyed peas for
mountains
Styled and Photographed by
Terry Cylkowski
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Red Hot
Jogger
Ingredients:
1 red pepper
8 green chili peppers
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Salad Time
Ingredients:
Curly green bib lettuce leaves for clock
frame
Your favorite dip, egg salad, etc.
for clock face
Thinly sliced carrots to carve hour
numbers
2 red pepper slices to carve for hour
and minute hands
1 slice of kiwi for center
2 hard boiled eggs, cut in half for
quarter-hour markers
1 tomato, cut into wedges
4 green olives
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Printed June 2007, Web July 2007
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