Ice cream with green cheese, anyone?

CUCUMBER SALMON

MAKE your salmon look as though it’s jumped straight from the sea onto your table. Cook and bone a whole salmon, place it on a dish and then cover every inch with wafer thin slices of cucumber to resemble fish scales. Take a piping bag and carefully draw in fins and eyes for your fish. Voila!

JELLY A LA ZIZI

IN A large bowl, layer different colours of jelly on top of one another to get a psychedelic effect. Unfortunately you will have to wait for each layer to set before you can start the next. This may take several days.

GREEN CHEESE ICE CREAM

ADD a dash of harmless green vegetable colouring to melted Gruyere cheese and cream, mix vigorously

and chill for a delicious and unusual desert.

SNOWBALLS

A DELIGHTFUL way of using up leftover Christmas or other steamed puddings. Shape the leftovers into small balls, dip each in raw egg then roll in fine stale cake crumbs before deepfrying to a golden brown. Decorate each with half a glace cherry and a little strip of angelica.

ANGRY CHINESE EGG MEN

MASH up six boiled eggs with plenty of mayonnaise. Colour with green dye to make the mixture look like grass. Spoon the mixture into six pastry tartlets.

Boil six eggs. When cool, crack each one open and — using a decorating pen — draw on a face. Sit each egg on the bed of grass and give each a jaunty hat furnished from half a tomato.