Planting Without A Green Thumb

June 8, 2010

When I recently saw these lavender-lemon flower cookies presented in plant-able pots at the Half-Moon Bay farmer’s market I knew it was an idea worthy of stealing and making my own so that my friends, having seen my version on someone else’s uniquely original idea would be immediately awed by my ingenuity and creativity.

“How do you come up with such incredibly creative ideas, Anita?”

“Oh, I don’t know. They just come to me.”

Yes. I’m just needy enough that I’m willing to deceive those I love for the attention. I’m the baby of the family. What can I say?

There’s a skill in plagiarizing someone else’s idea, that being the ability to change the idea just enough that should one of your friends, having previously stumbled upon the original say to you, “Hey, I saw something just like that a couple months ago at a farmer’s market on the coast!” you will be able to simply cock your head slightly to one side and with a puzzled look on your face reply, “Oh really?! Gosh, I guess it’s true what they say that there’s really nothing new under the sun. Cookies you say? Uh. I would have never thought of that.”

So with that in mind, I now present my uniquely original creation, Anita’s FlowerPot Nibblers.

I know. Cute, huh? I tell you, I just don’t know how I come up with these ideas! Anyway, here’s all you need to make some Flowerpot Nibblers of your own. Just don’t forget to tell people where you got the idea because that would simply be rude to not give me credit!

Any kind of flower-shaped cracker, celery, garden vegetable cream cheese, cheddar cheese slices, salami rounds and plantable pots which you should be able to pick up at any nursery.

Begin by lining the inside of the pot with plastic wrap or wax paper. I would have preferred using brown parchment paper but since I used the last of the row last night for roasting vegetables, plastic wrap served the purpose howbeit less organic in appearance.

Add two or three rounds of salami.

Now put a small spoon full of the garden vegetable cream cheese in the bottom of the pot.

Toss a couple rounds of cheese into the bottom of the pot…

and place the another round into the center of the cracker, gluing it with a smidge of the cream cheese (a smidge being like a dollop only slightly smaller).

Slice up a five or seven celery sticks for each pot (it’s a number thing…I can’t do even numbers with food items).

And that’s all there is to it. Each pot makes a substantial portable snack for a picnic or backyard party that includes five or six bites of meat, three bites of cheese, a cracker, and a little cream cheese for dipping the celery in. Arrange a number of these mini snack pots on your serving table around a pot filled with real flowers, and once the snack pots are empty provide the children at your big social event with potting soil, seeds, and plastic spoons for planting.

And that is my idea!

Posted in Apron Adventures, Farmers Market/Street Food