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May 6, 2012

Whiskey Mustard Meatballs
Posted by Mama

What wonderful meatballs! They melt in your mouth with just the right amount of spice and whiskey! I did make them a bit larger and still got twenty from a pound of meat. I also used ground beef and ground pork from Tony’s. Yumm-o!

Appetizers

September 21, 2011

Eggplant Salad Toasts
Posted by Chammer

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Stolen 100% from Smitten Kitchen.  And sooooo good.  Will even liked these– and he “doesn’t like” eggplant.  I made these to go with Roasted Red Pepper pasta.  Great vegetarian meal!

 

1 medium eggplant, about 3/4 pound, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
2 tablespoons olive oil plus additional for oiling baking sheet
1/4 teaspoon salt
Black pepper
1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
1/4 cup crumbled crumbled feta
1 scallion, thinly sliced
8 1/2-inch slices of baguette, brushed with olive oil (I used 1-inch slices in the photos, then decided they were too thick)
1 small clove garlic, peeled and halved

 

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Lightly oil a baking sheet or roasting pan. Toss eggplant, 2 tablespoons olive oil, salt and a generous amount of black pepper together in a medium bowl until evenly coated. Spread on prepared baking sheet and roast for about 25 minutes, moving pieces around occasional so they evenly brown. For a cold salad, let the eggplant cool a bit before mixing it with red wine vinegar, feta and scallion. For a warm salad where the feta glues itself to the eggplant a bit, toss the vinegar, feta and scallion together when the eggplant just comes out of the oven. You’ll want to eat the warm salad quickly.

Broil or toast baguette slices then rub them with a garlic clove before heaping on eggplant salad.

Appetizers

November 2, 2010

Carmelized Onion and Apple Tartlets
Posted by Chammer

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I made this as an appetizer for Bunco, but I wanted to make it my own.  Lots of recipes called for Puff Pastry dough, and if they called for tart dough, they didn’t have apples or something.  So, I read a bunch of recipes and came up with this one.  It is tasty!

For the dough:

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1/2 tsp. sugar
  • 12 Tbs. (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
  • 7 Tbs. ice water

For the topping:

  • 1 1/2 TBSP Olive Oil
  • 1 TBSP Butter
  • 2 small onions
  • 2 Granny Smith apples
  • 1 TBSP Balsamic vinegar
  • Kosher salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/2 cup ricotta cheese
  • 1 egg yolk
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, salt and sugar. Using a pastry blender or in a food processor, cut in the butter until pea-size crumbs form.  Add the water 1 Tbs. at a time and mix with your hands, adding more water as needed until the dough comes together. It should be moist but not sticky.Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, divide into 2 balls and shape each into a 5-inch disk. Cover separately with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

While tart dough is chilling, cut onions into thin strips.  Peel and dice apples into 1/4 inch cubes.  In a heavy skillet with a lid, heat olive oil and butter  over medium-low heat.  Cook onion, covered but stirring occasionaly, for 10 minutes, until it begins to have a golden hue.  Remove lid and add apples.  Cook another 10 minutes, or until apples are softened but still have some bite, and onions are a deep golden color.  Stir in balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper.  Remove from heat.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out each dough disk to 1/8 inch thick.  Using a cookie cutter, cut dough into rounds. Transfer rounds to parchment-lined baking sheets and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Remove rounds from refrigerator and par-bake rounds for six minutes.
While rounds are baking, combine ricotta and egg yolk in a small bowl.
Remove from oven and allow to cool for 3-4 minutes.  Then, top with 1 tsp ricotta mixture and 1 to 1 1/2 TBSP onion mixture.  Return to oven and bake for another 8-10 minutes, or until rounds are golden brown along the edges and filling is heated through.
Makes 24 tartlet rounds.  Enjoy!

Appetizers

February 6, 2010

Queso
Posted by Parker

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Betsy and I enjoyed some queso this afternoon and she encouraged me to post it on here. I give credit to my mom for this simple recipe.

What you need:

1 can Rotel

1/2 block Velveeta

1 can evaporated milk (this keeps the queso nice and creamy)

1 tbsp butter

1 clove of garlic

Dice up the 1/2 block of Velveeta into about 1 cm squares. Mince the garlic and saute it with the butter in a saucepan for a few minutes. Open up the can of Rotel and drain out the liquid. Now put the diced Velveeta, can of drained rotel, and the whole can of the evaporated milk into the saucepan and set the heat to medium. Constantly stir the mixture until all of the Velveeta squares are melted. Enjoy!

This queso is extremely addictive so be sure to only pour as much as you really intend on eating into a bowl and eat it from there. If you put too big of a bowl in front of you, you WILL end up eating it all 🙂