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Ugh!! I hate when people repost images for things from Pinterest, but don’t use the original link. What is in the first pic??? It appears to use blueberries and watermelon, but what is the white? Cream cheese squares?
They are white cheddar or possibly monterey jack cheese squares
i think i would use white grapes instead of watermelon
i meant insted of cheese
I agree EverReadyMom! But It does look like cubed cheese. Perhaps you could use a light honeydew melon. I don’t know what’s on the open faced sandwich. Blueberry, tomatoes and banana? Not a good combo.
pineapple would be yummy as the ‘white’ as well.
clicked on the link to get the recipes for 1 and 3 but didn’t come up.
1. is blueberries, watermelon and what is the white made of?
EverReadyMom if you will go to my pintrest page I found the link
Sorry everyone I didn’t realize the pinterest links were no longer valid. I found the original sources to all but #6, adjusted now in the post.
For the white, I would use a crisp apple…..That speaks “America” to me more than cheese. AND it would keep the fruit theme.
Looks like the open face sandwiches have strawberry jelly. These are so cute!!
I think the open face sandwiches use fruit Roll ups? Yuck
I am guessing it is feta cheese. It goes well with watermelon.
I bet that isn’t tomato on the sandwich–looks like a jam of some sort.
Found the link under all of the pictures:
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The Cheese is Feta and it does go well with watermelon. You could also use starwberries and a sharp cheddar. The sandwiches are Toast with cream cheese, strawberry jam. Don’t know where fruit roll ups came from?
The open faced sandwhich doesn’t look like tomato or fruit rollup. It looks like toast, creamcheese, then a layer of strawberry jam, banana and then the blueberries. And the first one looks like pepperjack cheese cubes with the watermelon.
To the person who said the open faced sandwich has tomato HELLO that is obviously strawberry jam with cream cheese and blueberries and bananas. You do not have any cooking skills if you thought someone would put tomato on that.
How about using sliced banana for the white stripe in #1. Then serve it with fresh whipped cream on the side. Yum!
Bananas brown quickly when cut up as do apples. Something to consider.
you can use pineapple juice or fruit frest to keep fruit from turning brown.
So why couldn’t they tell us what they used for the white part? I think this beats the old red white and blue cake thing for sure
It’s feta cheese. At the bottom of the pictures click on the numbers and it will take you to the site.
i want to know how to do that pie, that is the best I have ever seen. How do you keep the blueberries from going into the cherries and ending up with just a mess.
Beautiful Pie!
You can also use lemon juice too so bananas don’t brown
These are all wonderful creative ideas for a festive 4Th and our kids culinary program this summer. Thank you
You can click on the numbers below the pictures to take you to the different websites with the recipes/explanations.
I think it would be fun to mix up a container of vanilla yogurt and some Cool Whip and just make the white stripes out of that instead of the cheese in the flag fruit tray. It’s a great fruit dip.
The cheese is feta…
http://wenderly.com/2010/07/02/patriotic-watermelon-feta-flag/
yeah, just click on the numbers under the picture. it’s feta.
For the open faced little things, you can also use strawberries cut in slivers with bananas on top and blueberries
Ohhhh…..I`m gonna try that flag idea…only instead od watermellon and cheese, i`m going to use strawberries and then globs of fruit dip between them to look like the white stripes. The fruit dip is made out of equal ounce amounts of softened cream cheese and marshamallow cream and fruit is yummy dipped in it……very hard to stop eating it!!!!!
i’d like to try to redo this with tomotoe; mozzarella cheese and i think keep the blueberries. a take on traditional italian mozzarella; tomatoe salad with the blueberries added. Think you’d need to serve italian bread on the side?
This is very creative , I love it.
The open-faced sandwich recipe is here: http://www.chiquitabananas.com/Banana-Recipes/4th-of-July-Open-faced-Breakfast-Sandwich-recipe.aspx
Sheesh, some of you ladies are mean girls. Good grief.
I agree, one in particular was especially rude in her comment. Let’s not go there.
Why not the white inside of pound cake instead of cheese that would be firm enough to pick up I think or maybe fresh pear, whatever the white fruit I think fruit fresh would be needed. another idea is the white wedding cookies or any cookie dusted with conf sugar on top, maybe before baking, dont know if it would stay white that way as I never tried it.
I think what works together is blueberries, watermelon and jicama would work, it’s white and with a nice dip on the side. I think that’s what I’ll do.
If you click on the “1.” under the picture it will take you too the recipe of the first picture.
#7 direct recipe is found here: http://www.bhg.com/recipe/desserts/red-white-and-blue-parfaits/
Thank you Amanda I added the recipe link to the post!
its pineapple
You could use cubed Tofu instead of cheese
#2 is toast with creamcheese, strawberry jam blue berries and bananas
Looks good to me!!!!!
Where are the glasses in #6 from??
You can buy milk bottles online at Save on Crafts or Bake it Pretty
Use bananas instead of cheese
Pineapple juice for keeping apples and bananas white – makes them work in fruit displays – a sweet cracker with cream cheese, marshmallow cream with the strawberries, bananas and blueberries – sweet treat instead of sandwich like – yummy!
The first picture is not cheese for the white it is fresh pinapple….
You could use fresh pineapple instead of cheese.
Thanks for all the wonderful ideas ladies! I am excited to try some of them for a picnic tomorrow.
Where’s the recipe for #6?
@EverReadyMom Hi! It’s Wenderly! The white stuff is feta cheese!
Hi,
Can anyone give the recipe for #4.
Thanks,
Shweta
This could be red Kool-aid, or you could mix up a Grenadine Cocktail, like this
I could be crazy here but in #2 it looks like a cream cheese spread with strawberry jam on toast and then topped with fruit. It looks delicious.
Looks delicious! I cannot wait to try these red, white, and blue treats.
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I’m using pound cake for the white stripe in the red white blue dish instead of cheese
They all look lovely. I love the sandwich and the pie. It looks beautiful that you wouldn’t want to cut it but makes you crave for it.