Friday, May 2, 2008

Free or Cheap Platters

Because I do some catering, decorate cakes and practice a good bit of hospitality I am always looking for neutral platters such as white, silver or glass. Most of the time the actual platter will be covered with lettuce leaves or something like that.

Someone was tossing out a BIG, glass plate from a microwave. I thought, 'That would be great for a vegetable platter!' I actually used that last week for a wedding cake I made. The outer lip was pretty level with the rest of the plate so it was perfect!

Then yesterday our microwave went out, we tossed it away AFTER I took the glass plate out of it! I remember seeing these 'platters' quite often at the thrift store for about $2.

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2 comments:

Mom2fur said...

I would never in a million years have thought of this idea! It's great!

Sarah C said...

Perfect idea! I actually have some extra microwave plates from an old microwave, and I also love baking and plating pretty =)

Thanks for the idea.