Breaded butterfly shrimp that’s oven-baked makes for lots fewer calories than fried and has a nice crunch. Have the shrimp with your favorite cocktail sauce or drizzled with fresh lemon juice. It’s a wonderful appetizer or a main dish. What Size Shrimp To Buy? Coastal Seafoods in Minneapolis has 20% off shrimp on Mondays. No…
Appetizers
Feta Greek Style Quesadillas
Here’s a re-creation of Greek style quesadillas we had recently at Chankaska Creek Ranch and Winery in Kasota Minnesota. They called theirs a flatbread. I’m calling it delicious! This is the kind of appetizer to make for an informal gathering. You know the type where everyone kind of hangs around in the kitchen talking and…
Top 8 Most Popular Appetizers
I’ve been going through some old posts and updating photos and text and realized, there’s been a lot of appetizers in the past 10 years. So I followed up on this by searching for the most popular and viewed in the past year. So this is a review of the Top 8 Most Popular…
Shrimp Cocktail with Pickled Daikon Radish
Shrimp cocktail with pickled daikon radish. It’s an unusual combination of flavors sure to excite your taste buds. It’s a perfect appetizer everyone will enjoy. Recipe for Shrimp Cocktail Eat this shrimp cocktail by wrapping the shrimp with a little fresh basil, then a wrap of the pickled daikon and finally dipped into the homemade…
Caribbean Salt Cod Fritters-Codfish Fritters
Caribbean salt cod fritters are not something I’ve thought of making until now. This recipe makes plenty for a crowd and tastes fantastic. This recipe is courtesy of Chef Mireille from The Schizo Chef.com. She cooks multi-cultural dishes, lives in New York, and is in the Food Bloggers Recipe Swap group on Facebook. I’m a…
Fresh Fruit Kabobs with Honey Yogurt Dip
Now is the time to buy some fruits and serve fresh fruit kabobs with honey yogurt dip. Totally tasty and so easy. Have you noticed in the grocery stores right now that there is an abundance of fruit? Fresh melons that are really inexpensive, the same with mangos, grapes and pineapple. I saw one store…
Roasted Beet Tartare Recipe – A Fresh Appetizer
I love beets…cooked with butter or canned pickled beets. Amy harvested 12 to 15 nice-sized beets from her garden so I knew I needed to do a beet recipe. Mary Jo just borrowed Mark Bittman’s, The Food Matters Cookbook from the library and she saw this recipe for beet tartare. I’m always interested in trying…
Cheesy Italian Dunkers Recipe
Cheesy Italian Dunkers! You get home from work. You’re tired. The kids have baseball tonight or soccer. Give yourself a break and make something simple for dinner. Everyone loves this simple meal. These cheesy toasts are like the Italian dunkers that you would get in grade school lunch. They are easy to make and provide for…