Saturday, July 19, 2008

Cooking Games: Creative Colors


Who says you can’t use your artistic skills when creating meals? We all know you can color icing on cakes and cookies, but have you ever thought of adding color to other food items – just for fun?

Changing food colors is an interesting phenomenon. The body is naturally repulsed by certain colors on certain items as this is a way of protecting you from eating bad food. You wouldn’t eat green meat would you?

Well maybe you would if you were having a bit of an experiment and trying new things out on your family – and you know that green came from a container of dye. Why not play with food coloring – although I wouldn’t start with meat. Try baking a loaf of bread from scratch, and adding red food coloring to the dough. Then, when it cooks, you have pink bread – not everyone can say that!

If your mom drags you into the kitchen to help with dinner, you can work on the mashed potatoes. REALLY work on them, if you know what I mean. The quickly cover your creation until you unveil your purple delicacy on the kitchen table for all to enjoy.

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