Appetizers By Many Names With Great Recipes
Canapes: Here you have small pieces of toast, bread, crackers, or baked pastry topped with various cheeses, shrimp, or some type of spread.
They can be served cold or hot and as elaborate or as simple as you want.
Veggies: Here you'll cut raw veggies into slices or sticks.
And these are usually served with dips of various types.
Dips And Dunks: You can make a multitude of dips to dip veggies, chips, crackers or etc, into and your only limited by your imagination.
Finger Foods: Here you have no forks or spoons involved.
Just your fingers will do.
And again your only limited by what ever you can come up with.
First Course: Here you have one or two appetizers served as a delicious first course usually at a set down dinner party but with a little thinking outside the box you can fix up some trays of appetizers and pass them around or set the trays stationary and let people walk by and pick up their own appetizers.
Spreads: Unlike dips spreads are made to be thick and are usually spread on toast or crackers.
Creamy Fruit Dip 1.
One Eight Ounce Package Cream Cheese.
2.
One Seven Ounce Jar Marshmallow Cream.
3.
One Tablespoon Milk.
Mix the above ingredients being sure that everything gets very well mixed up together.
You can of course puree almost any fruit and add it to the dip or you can make a cinnamon dip by adding a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
You can make a ginger dip by adding two tablespoons of crystallized ginger.
Just use your own imagination and you can come up with all kinds of ideals for fruit dips.
ENTERTAINING WITH APPETIZERS If your hosting a party, you can either make all your appetizers or get a little help at your favorite deli or supermarket.
While your there you can pick up crackers, cheeses, dips, spreads, meatballs, and cut up fruits and veggies.
You should know that setting up a appetizer buffet is a fun option that a lot of people like.
Plan it out with a combination of hot and cold and also go for a mixture of colors, and textures.
Delicious Homemade Cheese Ball 1.
Two Eight Ounce Packages Eight Ounce Cream Cheese.
2.
Four Ounces Crumbled Blue Cheese.
3.
One Cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese.
4.
One Small Sweet Onion Very Finely Diced.
5.
One Half Cup Fine Chopped Fresh Parsley.
Have all your ingredients at room temperature and mix everything up so you have everything combined well and now chill your cheese mixture in the refrigerator until your ready to form it into a ball.
Now crush a half cup of pecans very fine and roll your cheese ball in the very fine pecans to coat the outside of the cheese ball with the pecans.
Serve your cheese ball with crackers for a tasty treat.
And while those are only two recipes there are many more delicious appetizers both hot and cold that you can try.
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They can be served cold or hot and as elaborate or as simple as you want.
Veggies: Here you'll cut raw veggies into slices or sticks.
And these are usually served with dips of various types.
Dips And Dunks: You can make a multitude of dips to dip veggies, chips, crackers or etc, into and your only limited by your imagination.
Finger Foods: Here you have no forks or spoons involved.
Just your fingers will do.
And again your only limited by what ever you can come up with.
First Course: Here you have one or two appetizers served as a delicious first course usually at a set down dinner party but with a little thinking outside the box you can fix up some trays of appetizers and pass them around or set the trays stationary and let people walk by and pick up their own appetizers.
Spreads: Unlike dips spreads are made to be thick and are usually spread on toast or crackers.
Creamy Fruit Dip 1.
One Eight Ounce Package Cream Cheese.
2.
One Seven Ounce Jar Marshmallow Cream.
3.
One Tablespoon Milk.
Mix the above ingredients being sure that everything gets very well mixed up together.
You can of course puree almost any fruit and add it to the dip or you can make a cinnamon dip by adding a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
You can make a ginger dip by adding two tablespoons of crystallized ginger.
Just use your own imagination and you can come up with all kinds of ideals for fruit dips.
ENTERTAINING WITH APPETIZERS If your hosting a party, you can either make all your appetizers or get a little help at your favorite deli or supermarket.
While your there you can pick up crackers, cheeses, dips, spreads, meatballs, and cut up fruits and veggies.
You should know that setting up a appetizer buffet is a fun option that a lot of people like.
Plan it out with a combination of hot and cold and also go for a mixture of colors, and textures.
Delicious Homemade Cheese Ball 1.
Two Eight Ounce Packages Eight Ounce Cream Cheese.
2.
Four Ounces Crumbled Blue Cheese.
3.
One Cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese.
4.
One Small Sweet Onion Very Finely Diced.
5.
One Half Cup Fine Chopped Fresh Parsley.
Have all your ingredients at room temperature and mix everything up so you have everything combined well and now chill your cheese mixture in the refrigerator until your ready to form it into a ball.
Now crush a half cup of pecans very fine and roll your cheese ball in the very fine pecans to coat the outside of the cheese ball with the pecans.
Serve your cheese ball with crackers for a tasty treat.
And while those are only two recipes there are many more delicious appetizers both hot and cold that you can try.
Have you ever heard of Angels On Horseback.
If not then you really should check them out.
