Category: Appetizers & Snacks
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Chicken Sate on a George Foreman Grill
Last year a client gave me some Penzey spices for a holiday gift and I’m just getting around to opening some of them. Last night we tried the Sate seasoning, which has salt, brown sugar, garlic, onion, coriander, shallots, ginger, tumeric, sweet paprika, Ancho pepper, galangal, cayenne red pepper and lemon grass in it! Whew!…
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Pico del Gallo Recipe
The tomatoes are so good this time of the year! And I could eat this sauce on practically anything. Serve it with tortilla chips for an appetizer or with quesadillas. Spoon on some black bean soup. Serve with grilled chicken or fish… the possibilities are nearly endless! Tonight we used it on some burritos made…
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Turkey, Spinach and Carrot Wraps
My eldest packed this for lunch for her first day of school. We bought some wraps and spread flavored cream cheese (chive and onion in this case but we often just use the “veggie” one), baby spinach leaves, grated carrots, chopped olives and turkey. Spread the cream cheese on the wrap first, then lay out…
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Caprese Salad
You really don’t need a recipe for this. What you need is really good tomatoes and basil and fresh mozzarella. And olive oil. I grew the tomatoes and basil and bought the mozzarella and olive oil. Layer slices of fresh tomatoes and mozzarella, then drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with sliced slivers of fresh…
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Bruschetta with Cream Cheese, Basil and Capers
These always get eaten about as fast as I can make them so it’s hard to find time to snap a picture! You can be flexible on quantities so take the following as guidelines rather than a rules. Sometimes I add black olives and if you don’t have capers, you can just use black olives.…