Holiday appertizers!!

[PASOFAN]

Ok let list all our favorite YUMMY appertizers!!

Here are a few off top of my head:

-mini wennies wrapped in cheese and crossants, even ok cold!

-Pickles wrapped w/ham or turkey, to stick to pickle need to spread cream cheese on the lunch meats..

-Tortia rolls, cream cheese spread on tortilla, chives, any kind of lunch meats, also spinach then rolled in the middle is asperigas, then cut into slices

hhmmmmm :D

keep adding!!

[CarolU]

This ones easy...

cocktail sauce, horseradish, and crab meat, mixed together, poured over a block of room temperature cream cheeze.

Serve with crackers. Eat some fast, it goes quickly.

[DebbieS]

Christmas Spread (white, green and red)

8oz Cream Cheese (softened)
1 green onion stalk
Pastrami

Slice onion and pastrami into small pieces. Add to cream cheese and cream together. Serve with crackers.

[Mellifluous]

Pop a wheel of brie in the oven with raspberry(or your favorite) preserves on top. Heat it until the brie get gooey in the middle and eat with crackers of your choice.

pepper jelly on top of room temp cream cheese with crackers


And don't forget the wine. ;-)

[DSDECKERT]

One of my favorites and it's easy as pie:

Go to Sam's club and buy the frozen meatballs, thaw and cook and drain off fat.

In your crockpot, combine equal parts of BBQ Sauce and Grape Jelly - then the meatballs. This makes a unique sweet and spicy taste. I guarantee it will be a big hit!

[Barbwire]

Texas Caviar

1 lb. dried black-eyed peas
1 cup French vinagrette dressing
1 cup chopped green onions
1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
2 cup chopped green, yellow & red peppers
1/2 cup finely chopped jalapeno peppers
1 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1- 2 oz. jar pimentos
1/4 cup picante sauce
salt to taste

Soak peas in enough water to cover in stock pot overnight: drain. Cover peas with water. Cook for 1 hour or until tender: drain. Stir in salad dressing. Add rest of ingredients, stir well. Chill. Serve with tortilla chips. Go to store and stock up on toliet paper and Gas-Ex. Enjoy!

[songbird]

water chesnuts wrapped in bacon, insert toothpick in center holding bacon to chesnut, bake at 350 for one hour, remove from oven, pour a mix of 1/2 ketchup and 1/2 white sugar all over chesnuts and bacon, bake for another hour, this coating will boil down and become sweet and sticky and tangy, I dare you not to eat them all!

[CarolU]

Leigh, my husband makes a similar hor d'vor of bacon wrapped dates. They are nummy!!!

[motorgypsy]

Colombian empanada

You cook a mixture of ground beef or you used precooked stewbeef or pork, boil with yellow potatos, spring onions, salt and pepper, until the water is cooked out and the potatoes and meat are mushy. You then mash it up but not totally blended.

You buy a bag of cirn meal MASA (quaker is typical) and make the dough the way it describes which is very easy - you just add water and mix it. It should be quite thick. It works better if it sits in the frig in seran wrap overnight. You put a glob of dough inside a plastic bag, mash it as thin as you can. You can use a rolling pin or just mash it with your hands. You lift off the plastic once it's flattened and put a tablespoon or so of the potato meat filling on the center of the dough, fold the dough over, cover with the plastic and cut out with a coffee cup. It ends up a half circle.

You then deep fry these and serve hot with aji sauce.

Aji sauce is a mixture of chopped cilantro, chopped spring onions, vinegar, water, salt and pepper, a little fresh chopped tomato and a little fresh chopped hot pepper to taste. It's served at room temperature.

You serve them piping hot and you eat them by biting the end off and spooning a portion of the sauce down into the inside. You then take a bite and eat. You spoon more sauce inside, second bite and eat it until it's all gone. They are soooo yummy.

The other thing I love is a Cornish Pastie which is basically a meat and potato stuffed pastry with a short pie crust type pastry that is baked in the oven. You can put rutabagas in the filling but the ones we like have white potatos, beef chunks and onion with salt and pepper.

Last but not least - Jamaican meat pies - you can look them up on the internet. Spicy filled pastries. YUMMMMM

Forgot one more - stuffed grape leaves. The stuffing is ground lamb, rice, seasonings including mint and a little tomato. They are steamed and served with an egg lemon sauce with a little tomato in it also.

[songbird]

Carol that sounds yummy, I love dates!

[PASOFAN]

Yep, there are some great idea's here! Keep the easy one's comin!! yum! :D

[motorgypsy]

I get the hint!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: But you can buy them and serve them instead of making them because they are sooo good.

This one's easy

Maduros

Ripe plantain
queso campesino, farmer's cheese, we've even used Mozzerella or Monterrey jack
honey
butter

peel and split the plantain. Insert a nice 1/4 inch or so slice of cheese in the center and put the slices back together like a cheese sandwich. Drench in honey and saute in butter on low to medium heat until one side of the plantain is done. Turn very gently and cook until the other side is done. Add a little rum to the honey if you want something exotic. Slice and serve with toothpicks holding them together.

[finolover]

road kill iz just fine in cold weather..
take a drive and just go pot luck :D

POSSUM, ARMADILLER, COON, SQUIRREL, RABBIT.....
CLEAN WELL, CUT IN INCH SIZE CHUNKS...SALT N PEPPER TO TASTE..
DREDGE IN FLOUR AND BROWN IN DA SKILLET...
DROP IN CROCK POT WITH A HALF ONION....add veggies 35 minutes
before serving...makes a soooper stew....flat cat goes good , but go easy on it....
i wuz gonna have chicken n dumplins but the old hen got well :lol: ;-)

[Ginger]

Beer.

[lalecl]

THIS square can dance circles around you! And YOU know I am right! ;)
I can kick high too

[Ginger]

No threadjacking- go make a signature thread, LOL.

[appyday]

No threadjacking- go make a signature thread, LOL.

Your back...we missed ya....lol

[CarolU]

Beer is NOT an appetizer...it's a staple. LOL

Unless of course you make knockworst (sp?) with it.

[Ginger]

Beer makes you knockedUpworst if you drink toooo much at a tailgate party:lol:

[appyday]

Beer is grain...makes it the top of the food pyramid..

[Ginger]

It's liquid bread, and a fraction of the carbs firearms have! :twisted:

[pnalley]

FInolover,
Where are you from? Here in the deep south (central Georgia) there is no such "road kill" known as ARMADILLER. In these parts they are more properly referred to as: Possum on the Half Shell
:twisted: :horsey:

[CarolU]

there is no such "road kill" known as ARMADILLER. In these parts they are more properly referred to as: Possum on the Half Shell
:twisted: :horsey:

Now THAT is funny! http://www.redphage.com/smilies/lmao.gif
Don't let Bob see that...he'll have a new dish for the Parade Picnic

[PASOFAN]

U guys!!! Too funny...

Road kill is pertty popular here in MN too, mainly Deer road kills..

Anyone know any good Venicin recipies??lol

8-)