How to Make Pink Food

An all-pink menu is a great idea for a baby or bridal shower, a little girl's birthday tea party, a ladies' lunch, a wedding buffet or any occasion you want to be extra girly. Food coloring and artificial dyes aren't required. You just need some ideas for foods that are naturally the pink of perfection.

Instructions

1. Serve a pink drink. You can start off your party with a pink punch made with pink lemonade, raspberry sherbet and lemon-lime soda. Alternatively, serve pink cocktails, like Cosmopolitans, Skip & Go Nakeds or blood-orange Screwdrivers.

2. Spoon up a pink soup. A cold fruit soup, like raspberry, is a fashionable start to any menu. A light first course, liked broiled pink grapefruit, is an excellent palate cleanser to start a meal. For a posh beginning, serve dusky-pink lobster bisque.

3. Make a main course dish from a naturally pink protein, like salmon or shrimp. Garnish foods with pink peppercorns, a pretty and unusual spice that adds a zing to anything it touches. Serve duck or chicken with a raspberry reduction.

4. Tint side dishes, like rice or quinoa, with pomegranate seeds, which function as a natural pink dye. Make tomato cream sauce for pasta. Include beets in a menu item for a naturally pink dish. Dress a salad with a berry vinaigrette.

5. Finish your fabulous menu with a pink dessert, like strawberry cupcakes. Pink petit fours are always a hit at showers and tea parties. Homemade strawberry ice cream makes a lovely cool finish to any pink menu.