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Today's 'The Best' post features unique food-served-in-food presentations. Impress your guests with these clever and appetizing dishes, where the food is both flavorful and functional.
- Salad wrapped in mandolin sliced cucumbers is a dish similar to one that I ate while on my honeymoon. It looked and tasted very impressive!
- Bacon cups complete with instructions and photos on the blog Not Martha. This was the inspiration for today's theme because I absolutely can not wait to try these!
- Feta Shrimp Soup in a Bread Bowl sounds delicious for lunch on a cold winter day. I love the flavor a bread bowl gives the soup and vice versa. Recipe and photos from flickr user sashertootie.
- Butternut Squash Risotto in a Pumpkin Bowl recipe from the evite blog. Now, I know you wouldn't actually eat this bowl but it looks so good I just had to include it.
- Spinach Salad in Parmesan Frico Cups by Food Network chef Giada De Laurentiis promise to please both the palette and the eye.
- Peach and Mascarpone Phyllo Cups are the perfect sweet finale to this post. Recipe and photos from The Budding Cook blog.
So ends another week for Tastefully Entertaining. Have a great weekend and make sure to check back next week for a St. Patrick's Day party, another exciting edition of Wedding Wednesday and much more!
Today I'd like to introduce a new feature entitled 'The Best...' Every week or so I will present an array of similar products. For instance, today's 'The Best...' post showcases place card holders.
I feel that place card holders are often overlooked when it comes to planning an event. Though they're small, they can really help accentuate your theme and show your creativity. Here are some of the best place card holders I've seen:
Eiffel Tower- Perfect for a Parisian themed wedding or get-together
Corks- Useful for a wine tasting, a wine and cheese party or a Little Italy party (think Lady & the Tramp)
Ornaments- Cute for use around the holidays without overdoing the red and green
Domino- Great for a game night or for use at a kid's table for any event
Fleur-de-lis- Classic and elegant for your formal dinner parties or gatherings
Gold Leaf Blocks- Simple, subtle and suitable for any entertaining you do
Elephant- Original, interesting and will definitely attract your guests' attention
2 other unique ideas not pictured-
Scrabble- Use your scrabble racks and spell out guests' names with the tiles (you may need more than one game or additional tiles for this)
Chalkboard Candle- [via 2modern]- neat way to personalize both a favor and a place marker; this may also work on small terracotta pots if you wanted to use a little potted plant instead
Please feel free to comment with suggestions on what you'd like to see next time in The Best...
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Today's post shows some great options for table centerpieces using candles. Using candles over flowers has it's benefits. First, they're much cheaper. Secondly, you can keep and reuse the parts. And lastly, you have ultimate creative control over the final look (no relying on what type of flower is in season or what your florist has available.) All craft stores have a large variety of ingredients for make-your-own centerpieces. Take a walk down their aisles for more inspiration. So here are my suggestions for lovely candle centerpieces:
