Ingredients:
Chicken salad spiced up with Dijon mustard, capers and dill
Shrimp salad spiced with Cajun remoulade diced and red peppers
Sandwiches garnished with strips of red peppers, yellow peppers cut into stars
Black and green olives
Breads --sun-dried tomato, marble rye, and flavorful focaccia
For the crudite -- dart board, skewers, raw veggies, scissors
- Gourmet breads (figure A) like sun-dried tomato, marbled rye and flavorful focaccia provide a tasty complement to your salads.
Note: Debbie Lee, Culinary Expert, says there are so many ways you can pick something up at your local grocery, bakery or gourmet eatery and put in a beautiful platter or bowl and make it an incredible dish for your guests to enjoy. - You can use cookie cutters to cut the bread into the shape of game pieces (figure B).
- You can use the decorative toothpicks to add garnishes to the tops of your sandwiches -- like strips of red pepper with an olive in the center, etc. This helps keep your sandwiches in tact also. You can use the small cookie cutters to cut shapes out of different colored peppers -- i.e. make a star out of yellow pepper. Just use several different ingredients and garnishes (figure C).
- Place crudites (kroo di ta -- cut raw vegetables) onto bamboo skewers and insert them into a dart board (figure D) . This makes a unique crudite display. There are two keys to making this a real eye catcher, First think of the vegetables colors when you place them on the skewers. Tomatoes at the tops of the skewers catch your eye. Second, vary the size of your skewers.
- We did include one fun decoration on the dart board, that in a pinch you could eat -- scallions. To make the frilly ends curl up, cut the stalks in quarter inch strips (figure E) and place the scallion in ice water for a few minutes. It makes a decorative addition to the display.
RESOURCES :
Board Games
Model: 0887407250
Author: Desi Scarpone
To order this title from Amazon.com, click here.
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Atglen, PA 19310
Phone: 610-593-1777
Fax: 610-593-2002
Email: schifferbk@aol.com
Cocktail Food: 50 Finger Foods With Attitude
Model: 0811824187
Author: Sara Corpening
(1999)
Chronicle Publishing Company
Website: www.chroniclebooks.com
Board Games and Toys (Mattel, Cranium Games and Hasbro Information)
Mattel, Inc.
El Segundo, CA 90245
Phone: 310-252-6190
Website: www.mattel.com
Complete Idiot's Guide to Throwing a Great Party
Model: 002863974X
Author: Patty Sachs and Phyllis Cambria
(October, 2000)
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Macmillan / Alpha Books
Website: www.macmillan.com
Nancy Silverton's Sandwich Book: The Best Sandwiches Ever -- From Thursday Nights to Campanile
Model: 0375412603
Author: Nancy Silverton
(October, 2002)
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Random House (Alfred A. Knopf Inc., Villard Books, Times Books, Shambhala Publications, Ballantine B
Westminster, MD 21157
Phone: 410-848-1900
Fax: 800-659-2436
Email: customerservice@randomhouse.com
Sophisticated Entertaining: Spirited Food for Grown-Up Parties
1557883459
Jeanne Benedict
(October, 2000)
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HP Books
GUESTS :
Diann Valentine
Event Producer
D.R. Valentine and Associates, Inc.
650 S. Raymond Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105
Phone: 626-395-0346
Fax: 626-395-0649
Website: www.drvalentine.net
Debbie Lee
Culinary Expert
Chris Champagne
Visual Stylist
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