I need a cute easy recipe for a Christmas Potluck tomorrow, Any ideas?!
I need a cute easy recipe for a Christmas Potluck tomorrow, Any ideas?
Answers:
Easy cheese ball
2 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese room temperature
1 (8oz) pkg shredded cheddar cheese
1 pkg. original ranch dressing mix
Finely chopped green and red bell pepper and onion
Mix dry dressing mix into cream cheese. (use your hands to get it mixed well). Mix in shredded cheese, peppers and onion. Shape into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill overnight. Put in center of a pretty tray and circle with assorted crackers.
Go buy some food from a bakery!
DON'T ever take store bought food to a POTLUCK! That's just tacky! any kind of quick appetizer or side dish is probably fine.
go to allrecipes.com and enter what ingredients you have in the house and it will tell you what you can make
This one is EASY....take boneless chicken breasts and cut up into medium sized cubes, take thick sliced bacon, cut the slap in half and wrap each cube of chicken breast in the 1/2 slice of bacon, secure with a toothpick. Sprinkle coarsely ground black pepper (be generous) and drizzle with your favorite BBQ sauce. Bake in 350 degree oven until bacon is done (do not over-bake and do not bake until the bacon is crispy...it doesn't taste good) but not crisp. Put in an aluminum pan and take to the party....this one is always a big hit!
decorate a relish tray with pumpernickel bread and pita bread cut in triangles with spinach dip, veggies cut in strips with ranch and italian dressing and/ or a fruit salad: a big bowl of all kinds of fruit in it wrapped in colored saran wrap with a bow on it like a present with christmas decorations on the tray and/or bowl.
Chicken Ritz Casserole
Ingredients:
5-6 chicken breasts, cooked
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 can cheddar broccoli soup
about 1/4 soup can of milk
1-1/2 c. sour cream
2 c. cooked minute rice (1 c. prior to cooking)
dash salt and pepper
30 to 40 Ritz crackers, crumbled
Butter
Cooking Instructions:
Cook chicken and remove chicken from bone and cut up. Place chicken in casserole dish. Mix together remaining ingredients. Pour mixed ingredients over chicken. Top with crushed Ritz crackers; dot with butter. Bake at 350F. for 45 mins.
Sausage Balls #2
Ingredients
(6 servings)
1 lb Sausage meat
2 c Bisquick powder
2 c Cheddar cheese
Instructions
Grate the cheese and allow it to come to room temperature (or grate it at room temperature). Mix (by hand, or with a fork or spoon) with the Bisquick powder and the sausage meat (crumbled). Form into bite-sized balls, around 3/4" in diameter. Cook on foil or a baking pan at 325 F for about 20 minutes.
I think I was also told that these store very well, but I'm not positive about that.
Asparagus and Proscuitto wraps. Steam some asparagus. Wrap three stems with a piece of porscuitto that you have lightly spread with brown or creole mustard. Serve.
Cute? I never thought of a recipe as cute or not. Cute? Hunh? Maybe??? But EASY for sure.
dip
BAKED STUFFED SHRIMP
For stuffing
1 cup chopped mushrooms (about 1/4 pound)
3 tablespoons minced onion
2 tablespoons minced celery ribs
1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 3 cloves)
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 pound scallops, chopped, or lump crabmeat, picked over
1/2 cup chicken broth
32 Ritz crackers (about two thirds of a 12-ounce package), crushed into coarse crumbs
18 jumbo shrimp (about 2 pounds), shelled, leaving tail and connecting shell segment intact
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/4 teaspoon paprika
Garnish: chopped fresh parsley leaves
Accompaniment: lemon wedges
Preheat oven to 375°F. and butter a large baking dish.
Make stuffing:
In a large heavy skillet cook mushrooms, onion, celery, garlic, and parsley in butter over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened and liquid mushrooms give off is evaporated. Add scallops or crabmeat and cook over moderately high heat, stirring, 3 minutes. Stir in broth and cracker crumbs and remove skillet from heat.
Butterfly shrimp by cutting lengthwise along inside curve, almost completely through. Split open shrimp and devein. Mound about 2 tablespoons stuffing onto each shrimp, pressing gently, and put shrimp, stuffed sides up, in baking dish. Melt butter and drizzle over shrimp. Sprinkle shrimp with paprika and bake 20 minutes, or until stuffing is golden.
Garnish shrimp with parsley and serve with lemon wedges.
Serves 6.
Make a christmas trifle...attractive and easy......
Use clear glass bowl......cut up pound cake or angel food cake purchased from the bakery in cubes, layer in glass bowl with instant prepared cheesecake flavored or vanilla flavored jello pudding, your favorite pie filling (raspberry or cherry is nice for
christmas). cake/filling/pudding ...do this 3 times and top the
whole thing with cool whip and garnish with grated chocolate or
chocolate curls. Refrigerate...gets better as it sits...serve with
a spoon!
chips and dip
The best fruit salad...
seedless red and green grapes cut 2 cups
1/2 cup almond slivers
8 oz of cream cheese sofotened
2 tablespooks brown sugar
Mix everything together
serve.
what the heck is " cute" in realtion to a recipe , would someone please tell me?
You need jack and cheddar cheese (1lb can't go wrong)Mushrooms (how many.I don't know.)
bacon,green onions,salt (garlic) worce sauce,parsley
Take the stems out and put them aside.Place the tops in some worce sauce for about 5minutes and drain.sprinkle with salt.
bake some bacon.Chop some green onions,stems, bacon and stuff the tops.Put them in a dish.About 30 minutes before you leave, place in them in the oven. Shred some jack & cheddar cheese.Ten minutes later take them out and sprinkle the cheese on top and parsley over the cheese.Put them back in for about two minutes or until the cheese has melted.
You need russet potatoes,chili powder,butter,cheese,parsley,b... or sausage (drain after cooking...pleaase).Bake the potatoes for about 40/45minutes (350).While this is happening, cook your bacon,shred you cheese (or buy it shredded...saves time),melt your butter (it's not important how much,but not a cup or anything like that) and mix in a tsp of chili powder (mostly for color.)
Take you potatoes out and halve them,use a spoon to scoop the center of the pototoe (it should look like a canoe), spread the butter/chili mixture inside and out of the potatoe.Bake for another 20/25 minutes.Take them out and sprinkle the cheese.then top with bacon and parsley with a little bit of salt.Great for the superbowl!
I made this last weekend and people absolutely loved it. Bacon wrapped shrimp. You need shrimp, bacon, honey and soy sauce.
Get a large bag of shelled, de-veined shrimp. Rinse them well and remove the tails. Use a half a slice of bacon to completely wrap the shrimp from top to bottom, folding over the ends. Pour honey in a bowl and microwave it for about 15 seconds to melt it. Mix in 2 tablespoons of soy sauce for each cup of honey. Mix it well, and drizzle it over the shrimp, coating each piece. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes, uncovered. mix again and drain off excess honey to allow the bottoms of the shrimp to crisp up. You can strain and save the honey sauce for a dipping sauce, adding one teaspoon of Dijon mustard to it and mixing well. Bake until bacon is crispy. Place a toothpick in each one, serve and enjoy. It'll be a hit!