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Ingredients and Tools Needed:1 a little bit of patience
1 medium tomato, washed & dried
1 cucumber, washed & dried
A very Sharp paring knife

*NOTE: You need a long continuous strip of peel to do this.
Place the tomato bottom side up in your hand. Take the paring knife and cut a circle of skin from the bottom being careful not to cut it off. Now with a continuous motion peel the skin about 1/2 - ¾ inch in width all the way around the tomato. You will end up on top. Now take the end you just finished cutting off and working on a cutting board, start winding the tomato peel around itself being careful to not break the peel. When you reach the end, your flower will sit on the circle you cut first. Place on your salad or on a vegetable platter as a garnish. This is a very lovely accent.

Cucumber Flower

Starting on one end of the cucumber cut a circle of peel from the end being careful to not to cut or break the peel. Peel the cucumber until it reaches about 8” in length. Cut the peel there. Now with the end you just cut and working on the cutting board as a base, roll the peel up all the way to the circle and sit the roll on top of it. Now you have a cucumber rose or flower. Use as an accent on a plate, in your salad or on a veggie platter.
Then say, hey look what I did!

I did the tomato roses for our salad the other night and my sweet son came up and said Hey that’s pretty. Who’s coming for dinner? I then explained that I did it for the whole family just for fun. Why not do the same?

Ingredients & Utensils:

1 Large cantelope
V-shape cutting knife
or small sharp cookie cutters (must be thick enough to go through the cantelope and be pulled out)
a sharp 6 ” knife
Small 1″-2″ candle with holder
Fire safe plate

With knife cut about 1 ” off the stem side of cantelope so that it will sit flat.
Next, scrape out bottom of the fruit along with the seeds making sure that the inside is nice and clean.
Pick the desired shape cookie cutter and starting at the bottom press through the outside skin into the flesh. (Save these cutouts for later for further decorations on another project or fruit bowl).
Do this until you reach the top of the cantelope and make sure you make a cutout on the top for flame ventilation. (We are not sure how many guests will be into the scents of roasted cantelope).
Place your beautiful creation on a fire safe plate and put your candle with holder under and light. Enjoy.

Ingredients and Utensils Needed:

1 small or medium size melon, Cantelope or Honedew
a corer for tomatoes
a sharp 6″ knife
pretty flowers with sturdy stems
shallow plate with sides

With the knife cut 1″ off stem side of the melon.
Next, remove the fruit from the bottom and take out all of the seeds.
With the corer, make about 6 to 8 holes on top going through all of the fruit inside.
Place melon in dish of water and add your favorite flowers.
Why not decorate around the bottom of the melon with extra flowers or even pretty beads or stones? Enjoy!