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Thanks for all of your suggestions. This is a monthly event, and I'll be trying some of them.

The next day, plan on riding a few more miles on your bike.

After a dinner of less than healthy appetizers last night, I went on one of my longer routes this morning. I came back home pretty hot and wet, so I rehydrated with an EMB (early morning beer). Coupled with last night's dinner, I probably lost ground on the calorie front, but it sure did taste good!
 
Puff pastry is my best friend in these cases. You can put most anything you have lying around in it, roll it up, bake it, and chill and save.

I like spinach and feta, with a little black pepper and a slice of jalapeno.

You can get puff pastry in the freezer isle of the grocery. and it seems kind of intimidating, at least it did to me, but it is surprisingly easy to work with.

I like to keep some in my freezer in case I'm invited somewhere I have to bring a dish, then I generally fill it with whatever I have at hand, it has led to some interesting choices, in the past, I would suggest, for instance, not mixing sweet and savory unless you have a very good plan behind it.

Cheers!
TBS
 
We always have both filo and puff pastry in the freezer. Karen made puff pastry once, not gonna happen again.:ermm:

If your guests like spicy, make some ABTs. They go great with most any BBQ offerings.
 
Ever thought about crostini - a simple one would be:

slices of French baguette, toasted and drizzled with a little olive oil
Chopped tomatoes
Small bits of mozzarella
chopped basil
mix together with Pesto alla Genovese

pile this onto the toasted baguette slices

I've always found that these go down a storm!

Love all the other suggestions and will definitely make them, because they're just perfect for serving aperitifs, which are a big thing here in Italy.


di reston

Enough is never as good as a feast Oscar Wilde
 
I'm going to have to try that myself. I made a crostini with the bread and olive oil, then put a bit of dark chocolate on top and salted it. Now that was good, but a little too sweet for me.
 
Chicken liver crostini

These are perfect for wine tasting. The recipe was given to me by a colleague at the Italian Consulate in Manchester, where I worked for many years before becoming an independent professional interpreter. I was sworn to secrecy, but I reckon that, all these years on, I can share this with all of you.

It's a recipe from Tuscany:

500g fresh chicken livers, finely chopped at the raw stage
150g pig's liver, also finely chopped at the raw stage. If you don't like pig's liver, you can ad 150 extra grams of chicken livers, but I think the pig's liver adds a very good dimension to this dish.
A small bunch of fresh flat-leaved parsley, de-stalked and finely chopped
1/2 tsp flour
3 anchovy fillets,in olive oil
a flat teaspoonful of chopped capers - you can adjust the flavour with more later, when you check the flavor at the end
A little flour
Juice of 1/2 a fresh lemon - whatever you do, make sure it's fresh lemon juice from fresh lemons and not bought lemon juice
Salt is not necessary because the anchovies should provide enough, and the overall flavor should be delicate.

Chop the liver finely and cook over a med. - low heat in plenty of butter together with the parsley.
Add the flour and stir in well
Then add the chicken stock a little at a time, until you have a mix that holds together well
Add the anchovies then, when they've 'melted', check the flavour for seasoning
Leave to cool, then add the lemon juice to taste, and then 2 tsp approximately of capers. Taste again for seasoning

To serve:

Fry finger-food size triangles of ciabatta without the crust in butter until golden and crisp and spread the liver mix on top.

As these are intended to go with wine, be careful to make sure that the flavour of this dish is neither to salty nor too acid, but neither should it be altogether bland.

When you get it right, these will do you proud, as they really are an excellent accompaniment to wine, be it red, white, rosè, even a Sauternes would go well with this, and a good champagne is heaven with these

di reston


Enough is never as good as a feast Oscar Wilde
Remove the pan from the heat
 
*BUMP*

I've been invited to an afternoon with the Neighborhood Gals tomorrow.
They get together every coupla weeks or so and play Mexican Train,
never heard of it before, but it is fun.

Even though I was told NOT to bring anything other than what you'd like to drink, my Mother taught me to ALWAYS take something.

I started a Pinterest Board consisting of all Party Foods.

This is the dish that I've decided on taking:

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Mini Cheese Balls

I made three different flavors

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… and y'know, the Cook needs to do a taste-test before sending a dish out to their guests ;)

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Bacon and Parsley with Swiss Cheese

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Garlic & Herbs with Parmesan Cheese, coated in Chives

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Toasted Pecans & Dried Cranberries with Sharp Cheddar Cheese

AH-YUMMM!!!

I pulled one each of the ugliest Cheese Balls to try on a neutral Cracker, and it being Cocktail Hour and all, a glass of Wine too. :LOL:
MAN!
Those are really tasty, even if I do say so myself!

Final presentation will be on a pretty tray and each Mini Cheese Balls will have a Pretzel Stick stuck into it, for ease of dispensing.
 
*BUMP*

I've been invited to an afternoon with the Neighborhood Gals tomorrow.
They get together every coupla weeks or so and play Mexican Train,
never heard of it before, but it is fun.

Even though I was told NOT to bring anything other than what you'd like to drink, my Mother taught me to ALWAYS take something.

I started a Pinterest Board consisting of all Party Foods.

This is the dish that I've decided on taking:

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Mini Cheese Balls

I made three different flavors

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… and y'know, the Cook needs to do a taste-test before sending a dish out to their guests ;)

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Bacon and Parsley with Swiss Cheese

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Garlic & Herbs with Parmesan Cheese, coated in Chives

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Toasted Pecans & Dried Cranberries with Sharp Cheddar Cheese

AH-YUMMM!!!

I pulled one each of the ugliest Cheese Balls to try on a neutral Cracker, and it being Cocktail Hour and all, a glass of Wine too. :LOL:
MAN!
Those are really tasty, even if I do say so myself!

Final presentation will be on a pretty tray and each Mini Cheese Balls will have a Pretzel Stick stuck into it, for ease of dispensing.

Can you make a thread and post the cheese ball recipes.

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Wine tasting events seem to go hand and hand with cheese. I've hosted wine and cheese events in the past and tried to have cheeses paired with wines that go best with them.

As you indicate that this is a monthly, could you get a lead on what wines would be at the event. Then you could research some cheese combinations to go with those wines.

Now.....going by what you are stating about the utility of form for serving these Horderves, I've seen bags of cup shaped chips for dipping in the potato chip isle at the stores. You probably have also. (lots of ideas for using these for Super Bowl Parties)

Next would be to find the cheese you would want to make into a semi solid that could be piped into these cup shaped chips. Then these could be finished with garnishes. (sliced olives etc)

Once created these could be packed into Tupperware type trays to seal and transport.

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Thanks for the bump! I am a new member of a bridge group and host the group every 8 weeks. Snacks are mandatory. I am hosting this Friday and am making cream cheese with green chile tortilla pinwheels among other things. And a cheese ball recipe would be appreciated!
 
One of my favourites, okay, are baby Bibb lettuce "cups" filled with shrimp, topped with pico de gallo and avocado OR spinach balls with a greek yogurt mint lemon dipping sauce. Recipe, sorry, I don't have one, but a quick search and these are similar to the ones I used to make (they freeze well--I used to always have a bag in the freezer--and yes, you can add them to red gravy and serve with pasta in a pinch for a quick meal):

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Ciao+...:"0"+eltypedim1:"Recipe"&FORM=SNAPCR&crslsl=0

The nice thing about the lettuce cups, they are gluten free. Not good for someone with a seafood allergy or vegan, but one could use chicken to skirt the seafood allergy and tofu or TVP for vegan, or make a an olive artichoke tapenade to dollop on the baby Bibb lettuce leaf and roll it to make it a lettuce spring roll. https://sweetcaramelsunday.com/artichoke-olive-tapenade/
 
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Can you make a thread and post the cheese ball recipes.

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Thanks for the bump! I am a new member of a bridge group and host the group every 8 weeks. Snacks are mandatory. I am hosting this Friday and am making cream cheese with green chile tortilla pinwheels among other things. And a cheese ball recipe would be appreciated!

Here ya go Gals:
https://www.discusscooking.com/forums/f7/basic-mini-cheese-balls-and-beyond-104173.html#post1619001
 
Other classics are mini-fry pie. Filled with fruit filling, Tex-Mex ground beef with minced onios and peppers, cheese, or veggies and cheese bites.

Another populer finger food is thin slced cucumer jelly-rolled aroud sticky rice, smoked salmonw, and secured with toothpicks, kind of like sushi. Chopped tomato, pited olives and pesto, wrapped in flatbread, pitted Castlevitrano olives, or olives of choice fiĺed with cheese.

I know this thread is older, but I hope the ideas are useful

Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
 
Other classics are mini-fry pie. Filled with fruit filling, Tex-Mex ground beef with minced onios and peppers, cheese, or veggies and cheese bites.

Another populer finger food is thin slced cucumer jelly-rolled aroud sticky rice, smoked salmonw, and secured with toothpicks, kind of like sushi. Chopped tomato, pited olives and pesto, wrapped in flatbread, pitted Castlevitrano olives, or olives of choice fiĺed with cheese.

I know this thread is older, but I hope the ideas are useful

Seeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

Ooh, all great ideas Chief! Thanks!!
 
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