Hell's Kitchen Terrifying Tapas

Step 4 It ain't easy being green...

So, the rite of passage of every young scientist is frought with the fears of their first frog dissection.  And you all know the guy in the all the crime scene investigation TV shows eating his sandwich while doing a murder autopsy. Why not dissect a "frog" or any other type of roadkill at the dinner table.  Makes for great conversation and allows to you play with your food while you eat it.

We will be taking a bit of pasta dough and turning it green.

Add a few drops of food coloring to the lump of pasta dough and knead well to disperse the color. It will be similar to working with two-part epoxy putty to get it mixed uniformly.
It might have been easier to add the color at the start of the dough making process but I didn't want to make too much. Then again, you can never have enough of the  "green" or " dough."

You will have to get a feel for how much dough you will use in each step.  You can always pinch off excess or add another piece if you fall short.

You can make the frog any size you want but mine was about the length of a regular fork.

I wanted to have the top of the frog green with a lighter underbelly.  You could make it all green if envy the color.  You could also make the red and black poison dart frog if you wanted a challenge.

Take a piece of green pasta dough and squish it out to an oblong shape.

Cut a slit in the bottom and stretch out to form the legs.

Cut and shape a similar piece from the uncolored pasta dough.

Place the sausage "guts" and a "blood squib" on the dough.

Start to join them together by "gluing" with a bit of water so the dough sticks together.

Wrap and meld all the edges together to form the frog.

Shape the legs and appendages.  Use a fork or knife to make details for the webbed feet.