prep all veggies,

wash off the yellow squash, carrots, red leaf lettuce and cherry tomatoes and set aside

peel, then slice cucumber into slices

for red, yellow, green bell pepper, cut into ringlets, deseed, cut ringlets in half

cut the celery stalk in half length wise, then cut into 3" lenths

asparagus, blanch in hot water then dip into cold,

to assemble

lay your lettuce out 90% of the way around plate,

lay celery all the way around 90% again, you do two rows, leave a couple ibches of leaf showing

now the carrot layer, same thing, starting a lil down from the top of the celery,

place the asparagus on top of the carrots randomly around

add the red bell pepper in a half circle

pile the cherry tomatoes, keep them from touching the red bell pepper, you don't want them that far back

add yellow bell pepper same as red, but more thick in the middle, because you are covering part of the tomatoes

add the green pepper leaving just a row of tomatoes showing

cut olive in half, with toothpick place on squash for eyes, a triangle piece of the inner part of a carrot for his nose,use part of a red pepper and attach lower, your face is done, place the yellow squash in place

add the cucumbers to complete the turkey body

take end of celery stick make 3 cuts to make the turkey foot make 2 of these and add, now enjoy the raves!

Nov 23, 2013