Garnishes For Tea Sandwiches Recipe

Ingredients

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• Flowers~ Consider pansies, violets, Johnny-jump-ups, nasturtiums, and marigolds. All are edible with interesting flavors. Use flowers that have not been sprayed with pesticides (some available at gourmet shops and Whole Foods Markets) shopping list
• Shaved Cheese~ Hard cheeses such as parmesan or pecorino Romano take on an attractive lacy look when shaved paper thin and placed upon an open-faced sandwich shopping list
• rolled Cheese~ Cut cheese into 1/4" squares. Put one tsp of olive oil on your hands and roll cheese squares into balls. Then roll in cumin, curry, or finely chopped herbs shopping list
• Piped herbed mayonnaise or Creme Fraiche~ Use an icing flower tip and place a fresh or thawed frozen pea atop the piping shopping list
• Layer It~ Place a small spinach leaf, with stem, atop an open-faced sandwich. Place a thin slice of hard-boiled egg on top of that and sprinkle with either nutmeg and sea salt, pickled ginger and a dot of wasabi, or a combination of crushed herbs shopping list
• Chopped Egg & Asparagus~ Finely chop hardboiled eggs, using only half as many whites as yolks, and press onto an open-faced sandwich with a mayonnaise based filling. Upon this, lay a short piece of asparagus shopping list
• Citrus, herbs & Spices~ Cut small triangles of fresh lemon or orange, removing peel. Sprinkle lemon triangles with fresh basil or parsley and orange triangles with cinnamon or curry shopping list
• Grilled Vegetables~ Grill red and green peppers, zucchini, or pearl onions. Cut peppers into strips, zucchini into squares, and leave pearl onions whole shopping list
• Hearts~ Use a very small cookie cutter to cut hearts from thin slices of pickled beets. Or, cut small hearts from bread, dip in melted butter, and sprinkle heavily with curry before toasting in a 350 degree oven shopping list
• Herb or Nut Dip~ Cut filled tea sandwiches into triangles and butter the long cut side. Press this buttered side into crushed herbs or very finely chopped nuts shopping list