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How to Asparagus Flower Appetizer Recipe - Step by Step Recipe
Learn how to make asparagus flowers for appetizers or garnishes. Step by step recipe instructions with photos show you how.

How to Make a Watermelon Basket Party Decoration - Step by Step Recipe
Learn how to make a watermelon basket for a party decoration. Step by step recipe instructions with photos show how to cut the watermelon with a cut-out heart handle.

Artichoke Rose Garnish Recipe - How to make an artichoke rose decoration.
Artichoke Rose Garnish Recipe - How to make an artichoke rose decoration. Make a beautiful artichoke rose to decorate appetizer trays or use as a table decoration.

Apple Bowl Recipe - How to make an apple bowl decoration
Apple Bowl Recipe - How to make an apple bowl decoration. Make an attractive apple bowl to serve foods or use as a candle-holder.

Cranberry Tree Recipe - How to make a cranberry tree decoration
Cranberry Tree Recipe - How to make a cranberry tree decoration. Make a beautiful cranberry tree to celebrate the fall and winter holidays.

How to Make a Honeydew Melon Basket for a Party Decoration - Step by step recipe instructions.
Learn how to make a honeydew melon basket for a party decoration. Step by step recipe instructions with photos show how to cut the honeydew and decorate the sides with carved and colored flowers.

Cucumber Spiral Garnishes - Step by step instructions to make cucumber curled fan garnishes for food.
Learn how to make cucumber spiral garnishes with easy instructions and photos. Curly cucumber spirals make an easy but elegant garnish for salads, cold plates, and buffet platters.

Cucumber Fan Garnishes - Step by step instructions to make cucumber curled fan garnishes for food.
Learn how to make cucumber fan garnishes with easy instructions and photos. Simple cucumber fan garnishes add a decorative touch to your dishes.

Cucumber Curled Fan Garnishes - Step by step instructions to make cucumber curled fan garnishes for food.
Learn how to make cucumber curled fan garnishes with easy instructions and photos. Curled fans look elaborate and elegant, but they are fast and simple to make.

Cucumber Curls Garnishes - Step by step instructions to make cucumber curls garnishes for food.
Learn how to make cucumber curl garnishes with easy instructions and photos. Decorate your recipes by adding eye-appealing garnishes to your dishes.

Cucumber Boats Garnishes - Step by step instructions to make cucumber boat garnishes for food.
Learn how to make cucumber boat garnishes with easy instructions and photos. Decorate your recipes by adding eye-appealing garnishes to your dishes.

Garnishing Cookbooks
A collection of garnishing cookbooks available for purchase online, selected by your Guide.

Apple Bird
Chef Harvey shows how to make a bird from an apple, with graphics. While there, use the pulldown menu to see pictures of other garnishes for ideas.

The Art of Eating Well
Tips and hints on appealing food presentation from the Fitness Partner Connection.

Cake Decorating
Wilton has instructions and photos to teach you how to make cake decorations including basketweave, bows, clowns, leaves, flowers, and more.

Carving A Jack-O-Lantern
Templates, instruction, and tips for carving a pumpkin from Swan Pumpkin Farm.

Creative Catering
No instructions, but many great photos to give you ideas on creating food sculptures.

Cookie Cutter Flowers
Ideas for making vegetable and fruit decorative flowers using cookie cutters from Lib's Place.

Edible Art
Photos of decorative centerpieces all made from food items to stimulate your creativity from Lib's Place. Be patient for photos to download.

Edible Art For Kids
This feature from FamilyFun Magazine focuses on food art projects for kids. The left side has links to make fruit leather purse, vegetable puppets, pretzel log cabin and more.

Elegant Accents
Scroll down for videos of Chef Ben Leach making a carrot flower, tomato rose, onion flower and radish flower from the Arizona Republic.

Food Art
Pictures and instructions on constructing simple food art for garnishing from fruits and root vegetables from RussianFoods.com.

Garde Manger Photo Gallery
Information and photos from professional chefs give ideas on presentation, ice carving, vegetable and fruit decorations, cheese carving and more from Link Culinaire.

Garnishing Videos
Videos show you how make green onion flower, radish rose, palm tree, apple swan, egg chicken and egg bunny from Becky Sabbert. Requires RealPlayer.

Green Pepper Palm Tree
Complete instructions on how to make a cute palm tree island scene from vegetables from Chef's Desk.

Japanese Art of Garnishing
Simple ideas for garnishes presented with text instructions from Donna's Day.

Kraft Garnishing Techniques
Basic instructions for making gumdrop flowers, citrus fans, frosted fruit and more, including helpful photos.

Snowflake Cake Stencil
How to apply a snowflake to your cake using a stencil, graphics included, from Epicurious.

Vegetarian Journal Garnishes
Text information on garnishing.

Watermelon Carving
How to make a peacock, basket, vase, pig and more out of watermelon with instructions and finished photos from the National Watermelon Promotion Board.

Wedge Cuts
Master the simple wedge cut and then go on to make a swan or duck from electronic Gourmet Guide.