Appetizers recipes or ideas?!
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Answers:
Cheese and bacon potato skins
Makes
20
Ingredients
? 5 large (1kg total) unwashed potatoes, scrubbed
? 12 bacon shortcuts, chopped
? 6 green onions, sliced
? 40g butter, melted
? 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
? sour cream and sweet chilli sauce, to serve
Method
1!. Preheat oven to 180°C!. Place potatoes onto middle shelf of oven!. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until tender!. Cool!.
2!. Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat!. Cook bacon for 5 minutes!. Remove from heat!. Stir in half the onions!.
3!. Preheat grill on medium-high heat!. Cut potatoes into quarters, ensuring skin remains intact!. Scoop out flesh, leaving a 5mm layer of potato!. Place skins onto a baking tray, flesh-side down!. Brush with half the butter!. Grill for 3 minutes, or until golden!. Turn!. Brush with remaining butter!. Grill for a further 3 minutes, or until golden!.
4!. Spoon bacon mixture into skins!. Top with cheese!. Grill for a further 5 minutes, or until cheese is melted!.
5!. Sprinkle with remaining onions!. Serve with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce
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Makes
20
Ingredients
? 5 large (1kg total) unwashed potatoes, scrubbed
? 12 bacon shortcuts, chopped
? 6 green onions, sliced
? 40g butter, melted
? 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
? sour cream and sweet chilli sauce, to serve
Method
1!. Preheat oven to 180°C!. Place potatoes onto middle shelf of oven!. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until tender!. Cool!.
2!. Heat a non-stick frying pan over medium heat!. Cook bacon for 5 minutes!. Remove from heat!. Stir in half the onions!.
3!. Preheat grill on medium-high heat!. Cut potatoes into quarters, ensuring skin remains intact!. Scoop out flesh, leaving a 5mm layer of potato!. Place skins onto a baking tray, flesh-side down!. Brush with half the butter!. Grill for 3 minutes, or until golden!. Turn!. Brush with remaining butter!. Grill for a further 3 minutes, or until golden!.
4!. Spoon bacon mixture into skins!. Top with cheese!. Grill for a further 5 minutes, or until cheese is melted!.
5!. Sprinkle with remaining onions!. Serve with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce
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Sausage Triangles
Makes: 42 servings
8 oz Pork sausage
1/2 lb Mushrooms, diced
1/4 lb Monterey Jack, shredded
1/2 c Butter, melted
1/3 (16 oz) pkg frozen phyllo
In 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat, cook pork sausage and mushrooms until meat is well browned and mushrooms are tender, stirring occasionally!. With slotted spoon, remove sausage mixture to paper towels to drain!. In large bowl, mix sausage mixture and shredded cheese!.
With knife, cut phyllo lengthwise into 2" wide strips!. Place strips on waxed paper; then cover with slightly damp paper towel to prevent phyllo from drying out!.
Place 1 strip of phyllo on work surface; brush top lightly with melted butter!. Place about 1 teaspoon sausage mixture at end of strip!. Fold one corner of strip diagonally over filling so that short edge meets the long edge of the strip, forming a right angle!. Continue folding over at right angle!. Continue folding over at right angles until you reach the end of the strip to form a triangular-shaped package!. Place package, seam-side down, in 15 1/2" X 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan; brush with butter!. Repeat with remaining phyllo strips and sausage mixture!. If not serving right away, cover with foil and refrigerate!.
To serve, preheat oven to 425F!. Bake triangles 15 minutes or until golden!. Makes about 3 1/2 dozen hors d'oeuvres!. Each triangle: About 50 calories, 4 g fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 90 mg sodium!.
TO FREEZE AND USE UP TO 1 MONTH LATER: Place unbaked triangles in freezer container with waxed paper between each layer; seal; label: and freeze!. About 35 minutes before serving, preheat oven to 425F!. Arrange frozen triangles on un-greased jelly-roll pan and bake 20 minutes or until triangles are golden
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Meat and cheese stacks (very pretty!):
From a deli:
1 pound roast beef, turkey or ham, sliced 1/8 inch thick!.
1 pound cheddar, jack or swiss cheese with very small holes
1 box of frilly toothpicks!.
Layer 4 slices of meat and four slices of cheese, alternating (meat/cheese/meat/cheese/meat/cheese/mea!.!.!. Trim edges to square off the stack!. Cut into approximate cubes!. Secure with toothpick!. (Scraps are great chopped, mixed with mayo, celery, onions, seasonings as a sandwich spread!.) It's fun to mix and match different meats and cheeses!.
Almond Stuffed Olives
3 cans jumbo pitted olives
1/2 pound raw whole almonds
Toast almonds in a frying pan over medium heat for about five minutes, stirring constantly!. Allow almonds to cool!. Stuff in olives
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Delish Shrimp Dip Appetizer----always rave reviews!!! It's gone before you know it!
You need:
1 8-oz package of cream cheese, softened
3/4-1cup ketchup
horseradish (creamstyle)
1 (7oz or so) can baby shrimp, drained & rinsed
Spread softened cream cheese on a plate, tray or small platter!.
Mix the ketchup w/ 1-2 tsps of horseradish----taste---mix more horseradish in by teaspoons, depending on how spicy you like your cocktail sauce!.
Spread the 'cocktail sauce' over the cream cheese!.
Top w/ the baby shrimp!. Refigerate til ready to serve!. Use a small cocktail knife to spread on crackers!.
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and Sweet & Sour Kielbasa (cut up kielbasa in BBQ sauce and jelly) cooked in a crockpot!. Pepperoni and cheese bread!. Meat pinwheels (ham, turkey, etc!. with cream cheese spread on it, rolled up, and then cut)!. Stuffed mushrooms with crab & cheese, Sweet & Sour meatballs (ketchup & jelly) cooked in a crockpotWww@FoodAQ@Com
Makes: 42 servings
8 oz Pork sausage
1/2 lb Mushrooms, diced
1/4 lb Monterey Jack, shredded
1/2 c Butter, melted
1/3 (16 oz) pkg frozen phyllo
In 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat, cook pork sausage and mushrooms until meat is well browned and mushrooms are tender, stirring occasionally!. With slotted spoon, remove sausage mixture to paper towels to drain!. In large bowl, mix sausage mixture and shredded cheese!.
With knife, cut phyllo lengthwise into 2" wide strips!. Place strips on waxed paper; then cover with slightly damp paper towel to prevent phyllo from drying out!.
Place 1 strip of phyllo on work surface; brush top lightly with melted butter!. Place about 1 teaspoon sausage mixture at end of strip!. Fold one corner of strip diagonally over filling so that short edge meets the long edge of the strip, forming a right angle!. Continue folding over at right angle!. Continue folding over at right angles until you reach the end of the strip to form a triangular-shaped package!. Place package, seam-side down, in 15 1/2" X 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan; brush with butter!. Repeat with remaining phyllo strips and sausage mixture!. If not serving right away, cover with foil and refrigerate!.
To serve, preheat oven to 425F!. Bake triangles 15 minutes or until golden!. Makes about 3 1/2 dozen hors d'oeuvres!. Each triangle: About 50 calories, 4 g fat, 5 mg cholesterol, 90 mg sodium!.
TO FREEZE AND USE UP TO 1 MONTH LATER: Place unbaked triangles in freezer container with waxed paper between each layer; seal; label: and freeze!. About 35 minutes before serving, preheat oven to 425F!. Arrange frozen triangles on un-greased jelly-roll pan and bake 20 minutes or until triangles are golden
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Meat and cheese stacks (very pretty!):
From a deli:
1 pound roast beef, turkey or ham, sliced 1/8 inch thick!.
1 pound cheddar, jack or swiss cheese with very small holes
1 box of frilly toothpicks!.
Layer 4 slices of meat and four slices of cheese, alternating (meat/cheese/meat/cheese/meat/cheese/mea!.!.!. Trim edges to square off the stack!. Cut into approximate cubes!. Secure with toothpick!. (Scraps are great chopped, mixed with mayo, celery, onions, seasonings as a sandwich spread!.) It's fun to mix and match different meats and cheeses!.
Almond Stuffed Olives
3 cans jumbo pitted olives
1/2 pound raw whole almonds
Toast almonds in a frying pan over medium heat for about five minutes, stirring constantly!. Allow almonds to cool!. Stuff in olives
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Delish Shrimp Dip Appetizer----always rave reviews!!! It's gone before you know it!
You need:
1 8-oz package of cream cheese, softened
3/4-1cup ketchup
horseradish (creamstyle)
1 (7oz or so) can baby shrimp, drained & rinsed
Spread softened cream cheese on a plate, tray or small platter!.
Mix the ketchup w/ 1-2 tsps of horseradish----taste---mix more horseradish in by teaspoons, depending on how spicy you like your cocktail sauce!.
Spread the 'cocktail sauce' over the cream cheese!.
Top w/ the baby shrimp!. Refigerate til ready to serve!. Use a small cocktail knife to spread on crackers!.
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and Sweet & Sour Kielbasa (cut up kielbasa in BBQ sauce and jelly) cooked in a crockpot!. Pepperoni and cheese bread!. Meat pinwheels (ham, turkey, etc!. with cream cheese spread on it, rolled up, and then cut)!. Stuffed mushrooms with crab & cheese, Sweet & Sour meatballs (ketchup & jelly) cooked in a crockpotWww@FoodAQ@Com
caramelized onion with goat cheese wrapped in fillo dough
caramelize onion cut 3in squares of fillo add a bit of onion top with a small amount of goat cheese fold and seal with egg wash bake at 375 for 15 min enjoy
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caramelize onion cut 3in squares of fillo add a bit of onion top with a small amount of goat cheese fold and seal with egg wash bake at 375 for 15 min enjoy
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