On Jul 24, 10:39*am, (z z) wrote:
> I do not have the gene to create art, but I do apppreciate art. I
> especially enjoy when people use art to break out of the mold. Recent
> years have seen people using skin and nails and hair as a canvas for
> art. Long overdue and the next coming is doors-front door, garage door,
> cupboard doors, car doors...There must be millions of ultra boring front
> doors and garage doors in America calling out for artistic expression.
> Those decals they are now selling for your walls have great potential
> for other applications. I personally decorated my laptop with some
> really cool 3 dimensional art stickers-very elegant ones in a black
> paisley/scrolls style. (Hmmm they are not paper stickers so I wonder if
> they would remain stuck-on in the bathtub???)
>
> So to tie this into food someone in another group posted a recipe that
> called for decorating the top of a cheesecake with green and red pepper
> jelly. I immediately thought of what I could do with a toothpick to
> swirl them together in a pattern, which led to thoughts of painting with
> frosting. I have seen art on eggshells done with food dyes but I have
> never seen art in frosting (decorative frosting yes, art to the level of
> a painting w/frosting no.) With jelly your color palette is limited but
> with frosting every color is possible.
>
> What was your most artistic food masterpiece?

I use bacon strips to make a frame around the scrambled eggs for
Sunday breakfast.