Fandango Catering and Events Offers 4 Ideas for Decorating Food

Many people are challenged when it comes to decorating food for a party.  If you will be hosting a party and you aren't paying a food professional to handle the food, here are 4 ideas on how you can jazz up the food at your event without any special garnishing skills.

Food garnishing is an art and even some professional chefs aren't truly proficient at this.  Basically what you can do if you're hosting an event and would like to jazz up the food but don't want to event attempt creating amy garnishes is to buy things that will look decorative and use those to decorate the food.  Here are four ideas for doing just that:

*Buy candied edible flowers from Meadowsweets (http://www.candiedflowers.com/ ) and use them to decorate food trays or desserts.

*Buy edible flowers (non-candied), including borage, lavendar, marigolds, nasturtiums, pansies, and roses and put them on trays or platters of food or to decorate salads--They must be pesticide-free.  You can order organic, pesticide-free edible flowers online.

*Buy kumquats or small figs or other small whole fruits and use them to decorate hors d'oeuvres or food trays or desserts.  Or decorate food trays with small bunches of fruits like kumquats, grapes or figs.

*Decorate desserts with candies or small chocolate or marzipan figurines--with the figurines you can either stand them up or lay them down flat, depending on the type of dessert.

Easy! And everyone will think you're an entertaining genius.

Enjoy!

Kristina

Kristina Ríos de Lumbreras, Ph.D.
Fandango Catering and Events
(713) 522-0077
http://www.fandango-catering.com/