Easy Idea: Dried Oranges for Decorating

Hi, I'm Evette Rios here on eHow Food, and I wanted to share with you guys a way that you can make your own dried oranges that you can use in all sorts of things just in time for the holidays. So to start out just cut up some oranges in about a quarter inch slices like this, pretty easy, and then what you're going to do is take out some of the juice. Now you don't want to take out too much you just want to get them a little bit dry because they're going to take a little bit less time in the oven if they're a little drier to start. So just kind of squeeze out as much of the juice as possible and then you're just going to lay them out on an oven tray like this. So just lay them out so that they don't touch each other, just put them out there, about two oranges is going to fill up an oven tray like that just fine. Put these in the oven for about four hours at 150 degrees so think low and slow and when they come out they will be hard like this but still beautiful and you can use these for all sorts of things like I'm going to do a little arrangement here with some seckel pears and oranges and this would look just beautiful on your Thanksgiving table, pretty cool huh? You could always use ribbon on the outside or you could put them on ribbon like this use them as ornaments on your holiday tree or tie them around things like this and check this out you can use them even as napkin rings. So I've got my silverware in here and I'm just going to roll it up like that and I love rolling up silverware because it's so easy, it's just grab and go, especially if you have a buffet table and just tie it around like that and there you go. Doesn't that look pretty and it's customizable. You can use different ribbon. You can use different sizes of slices of oranges. It's a nice way to add a little bit of nature to your holiday table and there you go who would have thought that a nice fresh orange could be turned into something so beautiful. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Evette Rios on eHow Food. Happy holidays.