Fun with Food and Flowers

I do not know where I saw it (probably Facebook, as I'm not on Instagram, and I rarely scroll Pinterest), but a recent recipe caught my attention that inspired some fun with food and flowers: egg salad filled 'carrots'. 

The recipe called for using sheet form crescent rolls, but I couldn't find them in my grocery. I tried improvising with a regular can of crescent rolls. They ended up a sticky blob of a mess in handling so I trashed them. Plan B? I went for a refrigerator pie crust, and that worked.

What you'll need:

• Crescent roll sheet form or pie crust
• Cream horn molds
• Natural, plant-based food coloring (orange, or a mix of yellow and red to make orange).
• Brush (I used silicone)

After rolling out the pie crust, I used a pizza cutter and gauged six slices (I did not measure or roll out the dough to make it rectangular before cutting, just winged it🤣). After each slice is cut, roll it into about an 18" string, about 1/2" wide. Start at the pointed base of the cream horn mold and roll the dough around the mold. "Paint" the food coloring on the crust and place seam down onto a foil-covered cookie sheet. I baked mine at 425° for about 8 minutes (the pie crust recipe calls for 450°, 10-12 minutes. Again, I winged it.) Let cool about 5 minutes, and remove the 'carrots' from the molds, and finish cooling completely.

I mixed my egg salad (hard-boiled eggs, sweet relish, celery, mayo and onion powder to taste), and stuffed the carrots. I garnished with parsley. I think Peter Rabbit would approve! Ham salad or even chicken salad would also be good fillers.

Mr. P. picked out a bouquet of flowers for me at the grocery 'just because', so I set a place for fun with the food and flowers. The little cakes in the foreground are lemon bites I buy at Walmart in their bakery (Sam's Club sells a larger packaging size). If you like lemon like I do, they are so good!

Then I played just a little with dishes. I still have my table set from St. Patrick's Day, so those are my backdrop. I just switched up the napkin and salad plate, and now it looks like Easter.

These 'carrots' would be perfect for any springtime fete - Easter, a garden tea, or even a baby shower. I hosted a baby shower for a niece several years ago (see my post here) in which we made foods inspired by children's books. It was a lot of fun, and the idea of gifting books in lieu of cards was a relatively new concept back then. Fun with food and flowers!

Thanks for your visit. Let me know if you try these. I'll keep my eyes open for the crescent sheet form to do these again, but the pie crust version was good enough to repeat, too.

Rita C. at Panoply

(A special thanks to Kathleen of Our Hopeful Home's Vintage Charm #278 and Linda of Life and Linda Love Your Creativity #91 for featuring this post!)

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