This is an excellent idea for a cocktail party. Everything is on a stick making it easy to eat. Around this time of year I have hundreds of small cherry tomatoes and this is a great way to use them. Fresh and tasty!
Prepare the balsamic sauce as described in this recipe: ‘Italian...
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Category Archives: Sides & Bites
Cherry Tomato Salad with Onions and Basil
Light, fresh and tasty salad, a great side dish to meat or fish. You can add small balls of mozzarella....
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Roasted Cherry Tomatoes with Rosemary and Garlic
Easy, quick recipe, a wonderful side dish to meat or fish. Sweet cherry tomatoes with a nice garlic flavor and aroma of rosemary. Rosemary can be finely chopped or put twigs on top of tomatoes. Instead of rosemary, you can try other herbs such as thyme, oregano or basil....
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Tomato-Pepper Pasta Sauce
My husband made a great tomato sauce for ravioli but you can use this sauce for any pasta also. The sauce is simple to make, full of flavor and can be enjoyed for a few days in a row with all different kinds of meals. The tomato-pepper pasta sauce an excellent dish for a casual dinner at home or...
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Crab Rangoon
An easy recipe for crab rangoon. Crab rangoon is an appetizer in American Chinese cuisine of North America. For the filling you can add a little grated ginger and also replace the garlic powder with fresh garlic. Serve with sweet and sour sauce, plum sauce or soy sauce. I usually serve with a thai sweet chili sauce.
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Jalapeno with Cheese wrapped in Bacon
A classic quick and easy appetizer with bacon added. You can try rich cottage cheese instead of cream cheese also. Best to grill but can be cooked in an oven also. Cook the bacon until crispy....
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Enoki Mushrooms Wrapped in Bacon
A tasty Japanese appetizer fused with bacon. Enoki is a small pale yellow, almost white Japanese mushrooms with very long and thin stems and tiny caps. Enoki are very delicate, have fresh taste, which does not interrupt the taste of other ingredients. In raw form, they are perfect in salads. Enoki mushrooms are often added to soups or fried...
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Toast with Grilled Avocado
The first time I tried this appetizer was at a local winery when we went with our friends for a special chef's dinner. I immediately fell in love with it! It's quick and easy appetizer to prepare and so delicious! Our friend Chuck brought the same appetizer to our party a few days later and after that I decided...
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Grilled Lamb with Rosemary
Lamb is my favorite meat for grilling. The secret with grilling the perfect lamb kebab is to get it done quickly. This will hold in moisture and make the meat tender. Also for the most tender results, use meat cut from the top round of the leg of lamb, or trim around the connective tissue of a butterflied leg to...
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Grilled Chicken Wrapped with Leeks and Bacon
I like to grill chicken thighs because the meat is not very dry when it's ready, but with this recipe you can cook chicken breast too. Wrapped in bacon the chicken will not burn and the meat will stay moist, saturated with the flavor from the bacon. Juniper berries and leeks give an original flavor to the chicken....
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