Tasty Cold Plates

Posted on Wednesday, 23rd December 2009 by admin

This article offers some temptingly fresh and attractive all-on-one-plate cold dishes to whet your appetite. Cold roast beef on potato salad could be just as tasty as some hot roast with baked potatoes.

All on one plate

Salads are the first to come to mind when we think of a cold dish, and these can be very attractive, tempting and tasty. Apart from salads, however, you can make other tasty cold plates especially for hot summer days.

All on one plate meals, especially cold ones can include fruits, vegetables, and salads and can be quire nutritious. Try some of the following combinations and you will have your family or friends calling for more.

Try some ham rolls with banana-celery salad on pineapple. Top this off with a piquant mayonnaise made with lime juice.Sounds tasty, doesn’t it?

How about some Crab Louis. This dish is named for the spicy dressing that adds character to chunks of crab meat, grapefruit wedges and avocado slices; another good one.

Antipasto plate combines tastes textures and colors with fish, fruit, cheese, meat, eggs and vegetables. Add some stuffed eggs to slices of prosciutto, some olives, melon slices, anchovy fillets, artichokes and blue cheese. Top off with a few capers and lemon slices. You can let your imagination run wild on this one.

Cold roast beef with potato salad is simple and tasty and can be served with onion rings, chopped parsley and Boston lettuce.

Curried Cottage Cheese with fruit can comprise black olives, strawberries apricots and mint leaves. You can use any combination of fruits you desire; or try a Chicken, Fruit and Green-Bean Plate. This is a tantalizing plate of crisp, tender beans topped off with orange rinds.Add some shredded chicken breast, sliced strawberries and apricots, and garnish with some curly parsley. Once again you can combine fruits according to your taste.

Salads

If you are considering salads, meat or fish is excellent in salads. Mix lobster, prawns or crab with mayonnaise and serve on a bed of lettuce or serve crab and lobster in their shells. Remove the stomach form the crab, as well as the grey fingers; and the intestinal vein and stomach from the lobster.

If you use white fish, be careful not to overcook. Use large flakes and blend with mayonnaise, then pile into pyramid shapes on a green salad. Herrings and mackerels are also excellent in salads; they can be grilled or fried; then blend the flakes with a little oil and vinegar and seasoning in a salad.

Meat Salads

Any cooked meat like ham, salami or joints of beef are delicious in salads. For special occasions you can have large dishes with a selection of different kinds of cold meat arranged on a bed of mixed salad. Do not leave sliced meat exposed to the air too long, however. The meat dries easily and will lose both taste and attractive appearance.

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