By far the most laborious task was carving this melon. You carve the pine cone shape into the top (which I majorly stuffed up) and then leaves around the bottom with the pine cone between them. I have put some videos up of the chef doing it (no one has the time to watch me do it).
(links below open new windows. turn down the sound as there is a lot of background noise.)
Here is a link on youtube (the blog software won’t allow me to put up wmv files)
Here is the chef once he had marked out the leaves and was starting on the pine ‘leaves’.
My dodgy one on the right, chef’s on the left
