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Garnishes and lemon slices...
I guess I have two questions.
We're having a party and I'll have lemon Perrier in the larger bottles. I love it with lemon slices, but how do I present the lemon slices so they're cute? I don't want to put them on the glasses, because we're using the same glasses for other things, too, depending what people drink.
Second question is more general, about garnishing. I cannot think how to garnish any of my dishes. Everything has bacon in it, and I don't want bacon as a garnish on everything... but there's not really anything else I can think of.
We're serving:
Beer
Perrier
Pop
Pineapple lemonade
Sangria
Baconnaise
Bacon salt
Ketchup, mustard, hot dog toppings (pickles, relish, tomatoes, onions, peppers, celery salt)
Ranch dressing
Potato salad with bacon
BLT bites (cherry tomatoes stuffed with blt stuff)
BLT bowls (bowls made of bacon with lettuce and tomatoes inside)
Bacon-wrapped hot dogs
Bacon dip w veggies
Pork & beans
Dark chocolate bacon cupcakes
Chocolate chip cookies w bacon
Bacon-wrapped pineapple
Chocolate covered bacon
Any suggestions? (Guests will also be bringing food, but I wanted to try and have enough of everything just in case they're *too* creative with their use of bacon.)
74 books read in 2011
Re: Garnishes and lemon slices...
For the lemons, you could skewer them like the one in this photo.
As for everything else, a garnish should always be something that is of the dish. It should never look intentional and should always be edible (i.e. a big rosemary sprig sticking out of a steak is a big no-no). You could do somethign as simple as some nice tomato dices for the BLTs, chives for the potato salad, dark chocolate shavings (just use a vegetable peeler) for the cupcakes and save your tomato tops for the BLT cups to give it some height.
I'd put the lemon slices on a pretty little plate. I was also thinking for the lemonade you could do a pineapple flag- maraschino cherry, pineapple wedge on a toothpick.
Agreed with kim on the garnishes.
Thanks ladies! I love these lemon pictures - very helpful, thanks again!
74 books read in 2011