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Do you play with your food?

 
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This week, I just felt like playing. Since I had split pea soup in the slow cooker, I decided to make it useful playing. I thought cheese biscuits would be nice with it... but not just *any* cheese biscuits!


I decided to form the dough over some ramekins I had.


I got 4 functional, soup-holding bowls, and 2 duds, but for a first try, I would say it was a success.



So does anyone else play with their food?
 
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This is a good question to ask toddlers and I bet their answer would be yes!
 
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Yes! I do!!  It's often difficult to tell where the lines between cooking and playing with my food are.  I make up recipes, I make up techniques, I make them look pretty sometimes, I arrange them weird, serve them weird. Due to life circumstances I get very little time to create neat things, so all of my creative drive comes up like a geyser when I cook.

Probably the prettiest thing I made lately was my Sunrise Mousse. Beets, sweet potatoes, spices, coconut milk topping and lots of gelatin. cooled in layers, 3 dishes that got layers added to them for cooling, assembled it all carefully, served it dramatically.... Was a lovely game!

Sunrise Mousse!



I love playing with food! I have a collection of threads here on my experimental recipes that I have labeled "Concept Cooking" a random one:   Concept Cooking: Watermelon rind experiments: Spoiler alert: they worked WELL!  and threads about other recipes like Oh my! Weird Pies!!

Yes. Yes I play with my food   :D
Obsessively, creatively, and constantly.  
 
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Jay, playing with food, so funny I am going to give it a go, the bowl looks like a yummy addition to the soup.

Pearl I was so intrigued with your sunrise mousse I checked out your Concept Cooking link, looks like I'll be busy for quite a while :-)
 
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When my son was a kid (now 18...) I often arranged the food on his plate to make smiley faces, monkeys, suns and flowers
This is a great thread, inspiring to bring the Visual Artist into the kitchen with the Chef!
 
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I haven't played with my food yet, but I've had fun with utensils and serve ware.  
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my cheese platter
my cheese platter
 
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My tableware, which my mother-in-law thought was "so intricate and beautiful"; then she looked closer and laughrd.

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Staff note (Susan Mené) :

Even if it's just for fun, check out
https://libertytabletop.com/product-category/flatware/sherrill-home/

 
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And finally, this:
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serving fork
 
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