Dipping sauce is easy to pass around with food samples.
Many restaurants, businesses and stores offer sample food to customers either to promote a new dish, to show their appreciation for their customers' business or to encourage the customer to stop by and purchase a larger portion of the sample food. Individuals can also serve up various food samples at their events and parties. Organizing the presentation of the food samples is almost as important as choosing what foods will be made and then preparing them for guests, coworkers, friends or family members.
Instructions
1. Choose recipes that you think will be easy to slice into small portions and serve. For example, lasagna or chicken pot pie may be difficult for guests or customers to sample. Instead, plan to prepare food that hold together well. Gather all the ingredients for your chosen recipes.
2. Prepare the dishes. Make the dishes first that may require cooling, such as baked goods, to allow time for cooling, slicing and serving. Also, food that needs to be marinated should be prepared in advance. Make dishes that should be served while they are hot last.
3. Carefully cut the food into bite-sized squares, triangles or circles if they are not already bite-sized and place them on platters, serving trays or on napkins. If also serving sample drinks, pour the drinks into small, sample-sized cups.
4. Push a toothpick through one of each kind of your samples and lift the food off of the platter. If the sample does not cooperate or hold together while being lifted, use utensils when serving those samples. For the food samples that do hold together with the toothpick, stick toothpicks through the center of all of the samples for serving purposes.
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