Carving mostly refers to wood and stone. Of course there's also bone and ice. In cooking carving is used with vegetables and fruit, chocolate and cheese etc. Actually, carving will work with any material that can be cut. You can make a decoration out of products to make a meal truly unique. All you need is a bit of imagination and carving skills.
Now it's time for cucumber flowers.
1. Take a vegetable peeler and slice the cucumber from both sides.
2. Take one cucumber stripe (preferably a narrow or short one) and twist it into a bit spiral tube.
3. Now make the first petal: take another stripe, lay one edge behind the tube, a bit lower, bend it away from you and lower the other end down to the base of the flower, then wrap around.
4. Keep making the cucumber strips, also bend them away and wrap them around. Try to apply each strip to the flower so that the petals are shifted - sometimes small, sometimes large and in front of the previous petal.
If the strips are too long, you can trim the excess at the ends, so that the bottom of the flower is not too long.
Apply the strips a bit bended, so that the petals are lovely.
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