| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 11:34:09 AM | | I am having 70 people to a surprise birthday party. I need 1 more great appetizer that is fairly easy because I only have a couple of hours to prepare for the guests. I already have hummus & Pita, Tabbouleh and a salad. If you have any idea about something that is fairly simple and tastes great PLEASE let me know. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 11:45:14 AM | Something really easy......
Cream cheese mixed with a jar of sliced or chopped green olives....as a spread for crackers. Really good....and VERY easy! | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 11:59:17 AM | That recipe has been in my family for decades Deena, except we use it as a chip dip.
1pkg of cream cheese
1 jar of sliced green olives
little bit of milk to thin it out
a few dashes of garlic powder to taste
Always a huge hit and tried and true
Here's another one that makes 80 appetizers
1 large pkg of Budwig Beef slices (the 40 serving size pkg)
2 pkgs of cream cheese
1 small jar of sweet pickle relish
Mix cream cheese and pickle relish together. Using back of a spoon, spread some in the middle of the meat. Roll and cut in half. continue with rest of pkg. Always popular | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 12:11:11 PM | This one is yummy & quick & affordable. All's u need r 3 thing's plus toothpick's.
1. cream cheese
2. long green onions/chives
3. sandwhich meat: ham,turkey,chicken which ever u prefer
spread cream cheese thinly covering the slice of meat, then place a stalk of chive at one end and roll it closed. the cream cheese helps hold it together, then slice the roll into individual bite sizes & use toothpick to keep each roll closed & also for guest to be able to pick up each appetizer. these are very easy to make & so good, & healthy. good luck with ur party. have a great one,
Antoinette  | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 12:31:42 PM | For easy and large quantity there's always the meatball standby... get a large bag of pre-cooked meatballs (meat or veggie version, both work fine), a couple of jars of decent red sauce, throw 'em in a crockpot and forget about them. Serve with small rolls and parmesan cheese on side.
Yeah, not real fancy, but everyone seems to eat 'em up and it doesn't get much easier than this! | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 12:38:09 PM | | I know this will sound odd but it is very good, get some smoked sausage and a can of cranberry sauce, put it in the slow cooker, very good. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 12:55:18 PM | -Brie cheese in Puff Pastry!
A big wheel of plain Brie cheese
Appricott preserves
A sheet of puff pastry
You scrape off the top rhine of the brie, put appricott preserves on top, wrap in the puff pastry and cook til golden brown in a glass pan with sides incase u have a blowout!
you can serve with Apples, grapes, bread, carr's table water crackers.
-Meatballs in a crockpot
Pre-cooked meetballs
A jar of grape jelly and a jar of bbq sauce
This is always a huge hit when my sister makes it
-Cream Cheese with Crackers
You can get Jalapeno jelly or Sweet rasberry chipotle pour over the top
-Southwest dip
Big container of Sour cream with a jar of pace pacante sauce.
Mix it up and put it in a glass pie pan
Throw some mexican shredded cheese, chop up some green onion and tomatos and serve with frittos
-Cocktail sauce with crab and or shrimp
bottle of Ketchup
a few spoonfulls of horse radish
Worchestershire
Lemon
A spoonfull of dijon mustard
as much tabasco that doesn't make it too hot
You can get the fake crabmeat and shredd it up.... or by a couple wheels of pre-cooked shrimp
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 1:10:17 PM | | I have a goats cheese appetizer that is easy as 1, 2, 3. You buy a log of goats cheese (not the herb covered, just plain) pour honey over top (as much as you want and sprinkle with nuts (I use cashews, but you can use others as well. You don't have to cut mash or other mix the log...you leave it whole and then the guests just cut off pieces to spread on small slices of french bread that you place around it. It's a very classy appetizer with almost no work involved. The only work I did was chopping the nuts (and you can usually buy them chopped already)> and slicing bread. The first time I made this, people seemed impressed even though it's a simple recipe. I think it's the sharpness of the goats cheese, the sweetness of the honey and the saltiness of the nuts. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 1:25:10 PM | HAM ROLL UPS
sliced ham lunch meat
cream cheese, softened
green onions
lunch meat, the long type
spread with cream cheese, put a green onion inside and roll it up, slice, put tooth picks in each piece for easy pickin...
tastes great, easy to serve, no clean up | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 2:09:00 PM | Wrap prosciutto or serrano ham around slices of melon, peach, mango, Fuyu persimmon or pear.
Wrap prosciutto or serrano ham around crisp-cooked asparagus spears and serve warm or at room temperature with grated Parmesan and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 2:11:51 PM | OP..here is an easy quick fix...get a small tub..or maybe a lg one(depending on how many guests you have) of cream cheese....a jar of dried roast beef....green onions...mix softened philly cheese with diced green onions & diced roast beef...put in bowl and let chill one hour...put in pretty bowl on LARGE plate...surround with ritz crackers...or crackers of your choice...VOILA! a quick easy party snack!! ENJOY
PS....there are various ways you can add too or subtract from this dish!! | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 2:21:06 PM | Another easy one:
Spread cream cheese onto a wrap (spinach, carrot, whole wheat wraps, whatever you like)
Put smoked salmon on top and then roll the wrap and contents into a log
Slice the log into segments
It's fast, looks good, and tastes great; Substitute any filling.
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 2:31:47 PM | Esay but sort of labor intensive - do you have people to help?
Stuffed pea pods
Sugar snap peas - slice open and take out the peas - then pipe in the dip/spread of your choice, and then nestle the peas back in. Chill overnight or at least 3 hrs.
They're super cute and so yummy... but like I said - easy, but you have to sit there and futz with the peas. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 2:39:15 PM | Turkey “Ham” Salad
1 2-3 lb cooked Turkey Ham (Jenni-O or other variety)
Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (no mayo, nor Miracle Whip Lite)
Dill Pickle Relish
1. Cut the rind off the Turkey Ham and Cut into cubes. Grate in a food processor (for chunky consistency) or run through a food grinder (for pate consistency)
2. Blend in Miracle Whip to the desired moistness. For 2-3 lbs of Turkey Ham, I like to start with ¾ cup of Miracle Whip and add ¼ cup at a time until the salad is as moist as I like.
3. Add 1 tsp Dill Relish to the Mixture and blend thoroughly. Taste the salad before adding additional relish, repeat adding 1 tsp at a time. STOP adding Relish to the salad when it tastes like “just 1 more teaspoon of relish.”
4. Cover and refrigerate overnight or at least 2 hours before serving.
Serve with crackers, bread or use the salad to stuff fresh tomatoes.
This Salad will keep 3 – 4 days refrigerated, so it’s a great make-ahead dish | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 3:07:06 PM | | chop up a few tomatos...add a handful of chopped basil, and drizzle it with a good olive oil, salt and vracked pepper.....serve on small pieces of toasted french bread that you have drizzled with a little olive oil before toasting, and rubbed with a cut clove of garlic...Bruschetta | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 9:04:08 PM | some of the above sound good....but the simplest thing i know is boiled franks.
get several packages of****ail franks or li'l smokies; for 70 people, you probably need 4 packages. minimum.
boil water
add franks
cook for 5 or 10 min on simmer
remove to serving platter
in center of platter, arrange dipping sauces
(eg, stone-ground mustard, salsa, ketchup, bbq sauce, whatever)
provide lots of toothpicks
so simple...my extended family loves 'em with just brown mustard for dipping.
if you like the idea of li'l franks, there are many recipes "googlable", which involve crockpots, grape jelly, bbq sauce, etc. not vouching for them, just mentioning they're there. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/17/2008 10:06:40 PM | Cocktail Wieners (Depends on whether you buy at Costco or regular food store)
Homemade Chili Sauce (Brand Name) in the round, small jars
Jalapeno Pepper Jelly (Knott's Berry Farm brand is the best) but any will do.
Large crock pot
For this size crowd depends on your budget.
One jar of jalapeno pepper jelly to two jars of chili sauce.
It is up to you if you heat the****ail wieners first.
Mix as above...just that simple.
Big Mike | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/18/2008 6:24:27 AM | | Thanks for the great suggestions ..... I particularly liked the goat cheese and honey idea very easy and I don't have much help beyond setting up the tables so that seems an easy and tasty fix. Thanks again to all who had a suggestions, many of those Ill use another time when I have more time! | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/19/2008 12:45:39 PM | Aha! Coastergal beat me to it on the Brie in Puff Pastry, It is easy and looks nice when you present it…
The only thing different I do is use Major Gray’s mango chutney instead of the apricot preserves. Its sweet but has the addition of some spice that compliments very nicely with the brie. Really good with a crisp pinot gris or pinot grigio wine.
Quick Humus
1 16 oz can garbanzo beans drained
2 cloves garlic
Juice of one lemon
2 Tbspn extra virgin olive oil and a little extra to drizzle
Approx ½ tsp salt
1 ½ Tbspn tahini *this can be omitted if you do not have it
In food processor, pulse the garlic till fine, add garbanzo beans, tahini *, lemon juice, salt and olive oil. Process till you have a nice spreadable consistency. I don’t like to over process my humus as it can get sticky, I want it to spread not stick. Pour mixture in a bowl, make a little well in the middle, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and a sprinkle of cumin. Serve with sliced French baguette bread.
Tapenade
1-16oz of pitted black olives
10-15 green olives or kalamata olives (basically whatever olives I have on hand)
2 cloves garlic
1-2 sundried tomatoes *optional
2-4 Tbspn Olive oil
1 Tbspn capers
1 anchovy filet *optional
Process the whole lot together in a food processor until you have all well combined into a spread. Serve with sliced French baguette bread. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/19/2008 12:57:23 PM | | Another super FAST & Easy Idea... take (1) 8 oz package of cream cheese or several depending on # of guests..place on plate & pour a jar of salsa over the top..serve with torita chips, crackers or whatever... sounds weird but it really tastes good! | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/19/2008 1:17:58 PM | ^^ take the salsa covered cream cheese and stick in the oven. Make sure you put it in an oven to table dish.
Doesn't really matter how long, you could just warm it up... but I usually go an hour at 350 to get it really gooey.
oh man... is that gooooooooood. It would be a great counter foil to the hummus and stuff you are already serving. | |
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| HELP! I need an easy Appetizer!
Posted: 8/19/2008 1:23:36 PM | **a jar of already made red pepper jelly-you can find in specialty stores..pour contents into bowl...
**softened cream cheese
**triskets --
let your guests spread the cream cheese and jelly on the trisket..simple but OH SO GOOD | |
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