Looking for recipes? or ideas.?!
Looking for recipes? or ideas.?
I am hosting a "spa day" at my house for several of my girlfriends. I am looking for recipe ideas for the day. I want to have several appetizers throughout the day. A light/healthy lunch and several desserts. Any ideas on fancy finger food would be helpful. remember they need to stick with the "spa" theme.
Also any suggestions for unique serving ideas or fun drinks would be appreciated.
Answers:
The site link below has EVERYTHING you can think of for finger foods and appetizers.
You can pick and choose on how fany or casual of a SPa Day you are hosting.
Some that are big hits and always get eaten up:
Crispy Coconut Chicken Fingers
Deviled Eggs with Bacon
Totilla Spirals
Freeze Ahead Meatballs
Mandarin Orange Chicken
California Crab Toasts
One thing my sister always makes for our "girl" get togethers and it can be made ahead of time..
Chinese Chicken Salad
3 to 4 chicken breast
1 head lettuce, shedded
2 tablespoons almonds, slivered
2 tablespoons sesame seeds, toasted
4 green onions finely sliced
1/2 to 1 whole package won ton skins
oil for frying
Dressing Ingredients
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoon sesame oil
3 tablespoons rice vinegar (reg. vinegar can be used)
Cook chicken, skin, bone, and cut into bite-sized peices.Combine lettuce, almonds, sesame seeds, and green onions in a large plastic bag. Cut won ton into strips and fry in small amount of oil until brown and crispy. Drain on paper towel. Combine remaining ingredients for dressing in a small container. Crush won ton and place in med size plastic bag. Once ready to eat, add won ton to lettuce, pour dressing into baggie. Toss and pour from bag to serve.
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Oriental Crab Appetizers
1 lb crabmeat, picked over
1 cup canned bamboo shoots, julienned
18-24 large lettuce leaves
1/2 cup toasted walnuts, finely chopped
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons dry white wine or white grape juice
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
1/2 lb stringless snow peas, very finely julienned
Chinese hot mustard (optional)
sweet plum sauce (optional)
1. Combine soy sauce, wine or juice, garlic, and ginger in a large bowl.
2. Add crabmeat, snow peas, and bamboo shoots to soy mixture.
3. Mix well.
4. Top each lettuce leaf with portion of crab mixture.
5. Fold leaves around crab by first turning in the sides, then rolling up.
6. Serve on plate scattered with finely chopped toasted walnuts.
7. ---Serving Suggestion---.
8. Make a quick sauce of half Chinese hot mustard and half sweet plum sauce.
9. Spoon in a zig-zag pattern on each plate.
10. Place 3 rolls on top of the sauce, propped like fallen logs.
11. Top with toasted nuts and sprigs of fresh coriander.
Pepperoni Cheese Balls
INGREDIENTS
8 ounces pepperoni sausage
8 ounces cream cheese
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sour cream
DIRECTIONS
Place pepperoni slices in a food processor or blender, and pulse until finely chopped. Set aside.
In a bowl, stir together cream cheese, Worcestershire sauce, butter, and sour cream. Mix well with a mixer. Add chopped pepperoni, and mix well. Form into small balls, place on a serving platter, and refrigerate.
serve with crackers
Grapefruit jammers
1. Cut up a grapefruit in small slices
2. put it in a ziplock bag
3. add some lemmon juice and half a teaspoon honey. Add a hint of salt.
4. Shake and eat.
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Boneless ginger chicken on bean sprout
1. Cut up the chicken into small pieces.
2. Put in a plastic baggie, toss in some chopper ginger, lemon and salt.
3. Marinade for an hour
4. Heat up olive oil in a killet
5. Throw in the chicken, also add the chopped ginger that was in the baggie (some people throw the gingers away)
6. Cook for 30 minutes or till the chicken is done.
7. Add soy sauce and tabasco sause
8. Turn up the heat to max
9. Add the bean sprout, mix and cook for 3 mints
10. Turn down heat, you may add some lemon and pepper if you like
ENJOY
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Cucumber yogurt drink
1. Add cucumber, yogurt/buttermilk, salt, mint, pepper
2. Blend and serve
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Mango salad cracker
1. Dice up mango
2. Add salt, a little sugar and a little olive oil
3. Put it in the top of a cracker
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Yummu toothpicks
1. Take a toothpick
2.stick a small cube of cheese, an olive, a plum tomato and a piece of folded pepperoni and a piece of celery
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Spa snacks: What to serve? In terms of food, spa-type offerings should be simple and elegant. Sushi is an easy favorite, as are fruit kabobs, imported cheeses and petite fours. At a recent spa party I threw, Toffee Break crafted custom desserts to match my theme and colors. White chocolate-covered marshmallows on sticks were decorated with pink and orange sprinkles making them a delicious addition to the decor. Another delectable choice is ChocoChocoHouse.com- offering up the most adorable chocolate purses I've ever seen ($17.95 for six pieces). Remember, it is the details that dazzle.
8. Drink up: Keep cocktail or wine offerings simple yet elegant. Serve chilled white wines such as Frutezia Orchard Blend and Sunshine Blend, two sun-kissed fruit flavored blends that contain half the alcohol content compared with traditional wines. Guests should be relaxed, not rowdy.
9. Make your own wine charms: Adorn each glass with costume jewelry, hooked or wrapped around the stem of each glass, then let your guests take their charms home at the end of the party.
take cocktail bread (the little loaves by the deli), spread cream cheese on them or any mild spreadable cheese, and then put a slice of cucumber on it to make a mini sandwich. You could also add some fresh basil for a little more taste.
and a fruity one:
mix enough powdered suger and cream cheese to make a frosting, spread on wasa crackers or another bigger, more sbstantial cracker. then arrange 3-4 canned mandarin orange slices in a pretty fan.
Both recipies are good snack, and not too diffucult at all!
Tiramisù (tirami su )
( from italian : cheer me up )
6 egg yolks
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup brandy
1/3 cup Marsala or coffee
1 pound mascarpone or ricotta cheese
1 1/2 cups whipping cream
3/4 cup extra-strong coffee
24 giant Italian ladyfingers
4 ounces semisweet chocolate; finely chopped
In bowl, beat egg yolks with sugar until light, about 5 minutes. Whisk in
1/4 cup each of brandy and Marsala. Transfer to double boiler over gently
simmering water; whisk for about 7 minutes or until thickened. Let cool.
Beat cheese until smooth; fold in egg mixture. Whip cream; stir one-quarter
into cheese mixture. Fold in remaining cream. Combine coffee and remaining
brandy and Marsala.
Arrange half of the ladyfingers in 11-x 7-inch glass baking dish; brush
with half of the coffee mixture. Spread with half of the cream mixture.
Repeat layers. Top with chocolate.
Cover and refrigerate overnight. (Can be frozen for up to 2 weeks. Let thaw
in refrigerator for 24 hours before serving.)
It is a typical cold and easy Italian cake!