Fruit Platter Presentation

One can transform something boring into something exciting just by the looks of it especially when we are talking about food. Food will always feed the eye first so presentation is pretty much important. It can easily increase the value of the food being served.

Here in the Philippines, like all tropical countries, fruit is abundant both in quantity and quality. Normally, we just eat the fruit as is. We just peel the banana and eat it or slice the mango and eat it. However, one can transcend these fruits into something else just by cutting and plating it in a different manner. Guess what, I transcended some of them yesterday bwahaha!

Here is the bird'e eye view



Here is the side view



If it looks good, it will make the food taste a better :D

Here are the following ingredients I used for that platter

Mangoes

I diced the mangoes, sauteed it with butter and flambeyed *is it the right spelling?* with some dark rum

Bananas

Just Sliced it. I used the breed Latundan for it since we like the flavor that it insinuates.

Apples

Just Sliced it. I used fuji for the texture.

Lastly, I topped it with some creme fraiche. I forgot the term of the technique I used for that, is it canel? or chanel? :D

Opinion

Presentation was gorgeous. The only thing that is great about its flavor here are the diced mangoes. The rum gave it a strong flavor and the butter gave it a richer flavor. The creme fraiche also balanced the strong flavor of the rum on the mangoes so it was actually ok. The only thing that I would improve here might be adding more color, maybe some strawberries or kiwis? :D