Confusing Food With Food

I want to create a menu. I do love to cook but this is a menu of foods I am not going to make, but that I would like others to make and then take pictures of. You might even want to eat it. Don’t know, don’t care.



Here is what is driving the menu: wrong color foods.



Ok, so the colors are not “wrong” per se, but are certainly unexpected.



So, for example, a plate of spinach fettuccine (or for non-kosher consumers, squid ink pasta). Got it?



Let’s get started:



At that table there should be a bowl of techina made from black garlic seeds and a brown butter/black garlic oil. Also, golden grape jam for spreading.



Start with a pasta bar with 3 choices:

Squid ink/black

Beet pasta (pink/red)

Spinach pasta (green)



To pour over it, we have a choice of a green cheese sauce or topped with a tomato sauce made from yellow tomatoes. Such things exist, or so I have been told, and I imaging the contrast of a bright yellow sauce with a green (or black) pasta would be striking. Or a green cheese sauce on a green pasta might just be gross looking!

Sushi made from Lingcod

I want a corn salad made with purple onions and red corn. Yes, red corn is a thing. Maybe chop up some non-green peppers. Not as unconventional, but tasty and colorful.

Wax beans on the side and a white pumpkin pie, plus some grilled purple cauliflower and purple broccoli, and white and purple asparagus.

The corn, alternatively, could be used to make a red/blue creamed corn or a red or blue corn-based corn bread, tortillas, or chips to go with the dips above.

Next, a tzimmes made with purple/blue and red carrots, or maybe just white ones. And a mashed potato dish made from purple potatoes, but still savory.

Slice up some white sweet potatoes very thin and fry them up.

Serve with a glass of blood orange juice.

For dessert we have a lot of options:



Dried rings of pink pineapple

Slices of white or yellow watermelon

Golden raspberry compote

Red kiwis

White cherries and white strawberries served next to a chocolate fountain filled with white chocolate

I was considering a red banana pudding but the pinkness of the red banana flesh seems fleeting.



So start shopping, cooking and taking pictures of the meal that will mess with your senses.