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Appetizer Recipes

Spicy Red/Brown Chicken Drumsticks On A White Plate surrounded by celery and with with a white blue cheese dipping sauce in a bowl

Appetizers are fun recipes.  They break up the meal, or they can be served casually in the kitchen or while everybody is hanging out.

Here's a few prime appetizer recipes of stuff from high falutin' to awesome finger food appies:

  • Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapeno Poppers
  • Easy Salami Appetizer with Pickles on A Toothpick
  • Smoked Salmon Cucumber Bites
  • Pimento Cheese Dip
  • Sausage and Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms
Diced egg mixed with thyme, diced red onions, capers, and sliced chives on a bed of butter lettuce.

Simple Egg Salad with Thyme and Chives

Falafels on a wood cutting board with a side plate of 2 falafels and a bowl of white cucumber tzatziki. side view.

Pan Fried Falafels with Canned Chickpeas

Bowl of cooked bright green fava (broad) beans with salt and pepper in a white bowl with a spoon.

Fresh Fava Beans / Broad Beans with Butter

Chicken, Ham, & Cheese Roulades (Rolls) sliced into rounds on a wood plate with roasted brussels sprouts.

Chicken, Ham, and Cheese Roulades

Cooked Soft boiled Egg Wrapped in Turkey, Coated With Panko, Baked And Cut In half on a plate.

Oven Baked Turkey Scotch Eggs

Creamy bowl of tan potato and leek soup on a white table with parsley garnish. top view.

Potato Leek Bisque / Soup

Sliced Roasted Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes) On A White Plate With Green Onion Garnish

Roasted Sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes)

Five poached pink shrimp on a little tan plate with a wedged lemon. Poached shrimp in a blue bowl on the side and also layed over some cups in the background. Lemon wedges in the background.

Simple and Easy Poached Shrimp

White tea chup with 3 poached shrimp and a lemon wedge on the edge with cocktail sauce in the cup. Close up.

Easy Homemade Cocktail Sauce

Whole cooked beef tenderloin sliced on a cutting board revealing pink center. Side View

Simple and Easy Whole Beef Tenderloin

Crispy pan seared shrimp close up in a black pan with brown bits and fond stuck to the shrimp and pan. Closer up.

Easy Pan Seared Shrimp with Butter

Blood Oranges & Roasted Yellow and Red Beets on a white plate with thyme and walnuts sprinkled over the top.

Blood Orange and Beet Salad

Shrimp In A Dark Roux With red and yellow peppers on yellow grits on a white plate.

The Best Lowcountry Shrimp and Grits

Close up ofcooked jalapeno poppers filled with a brown orange crust and a chopped cilantro garnish. Top view, close up.

Cream Cheese Stuffed Jalapeño Poppers

2 small wood bowls filled with brown miso soup with green onions and sliced mushrooms floating. 2 traditional Japanese spoons. Top view.

Easy Miso Soup

Close Up of Sauteed ground pork and veggies stuffed in a lettuce wrap and topped with orange zest.

Healthy Asian Pork Lettuce Wraps

Baked Crispy Kale "Chips" On A white plate. Side View

Crispy Oven Baked Kale Chips

Spicy Red/Brown Chicken Drumsticks On A White Plate surrounded by celery and with with a white blue cheese dipping sauce in a bowl

Oven Baked Buffalo Chicken Drumsticks

Wood bowl of pimento cheese with 3 crackers and a small spoon hanging out. Crackers on plate in background and one with pimento cheese on it.

Easy Homemade Pimento Cheese

Guacamole in a wood bow with toasted pepita garnish with a spoon in bowl. Blue tortilla chips and bowl of salsa in background.

Pepita ( Pumpkin Seed) Guacamole

3 Parmesan Crisps with specks of thyme on a Wood Cutting Board

Easy Homemade Parmesan Crisps (Frico)

Sauteed Shrimp In A Red/Brown Butter & Worcestershire Sauce In A White Bowl with a Spoon.

Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire Sauce

5 Seared Scallops In A Bowl With a Light Layer Of Roasted Sweet Potato Puree

Scallops In Roast Sweet Potato Puree

Top view (close up) of 3 potato latkes on white plate with sour cream and chopped parsley and a small fork. Baking sheet with 3 latkes in the background.

Crispy Homemade Potato Latkes

White rectangle plate of smoked salmon cucumber rounds with capers, onions, and chopped dill and parsley. Top view.

Smoked Salmon Cucumber Bites Appetizer

Multiple deviled eggs laying on a bed of spinach on a brown rectangle plate with a chive and paprika garnish.

Easy and Simple Deviled Eggs

Sausage & Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms in Yellow & White Baking Pan with a parsley garnish.

Sausage and Cheese Stuffed Mushrooms

8 little crostini toast on a green slab board topped with goat cheese and cranberry sauce and garnished with rosemary. Side view.

Cranberry Goat Cheese Crostini

Side View of a brie wheel laying on a puff pastry and topped with brown sugar and nuts.

Baked Brie en Croute with Nuts

Roasted Figs sliced in half on a square white plate and drizzled w/ a brown Honey Balsamic sauce with a side of whipped cream.

Roasted Figs with Balsamic Honey Glaze

Top down view of white bean dip with lemon zest on top in a wood bowl.

Creamy Lemon Cannellini Bean Dip

Close up of elbow Macaroni & Yellow Cheddar Cheese Pie topped with golden buttery breadcrumbs.

Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pie

Yellow Spaghetti Squash "pasta" with green kale and parmesan pesto with toasted squash seeds on top. Ona white plate with black rim.

Baked Spaghetti Squash with Kale Pesto

1 oven browned Quiche on white towels in a vertical shot. side view

Easy Quiche Lorraine (Bacon and Swiss)

Yellow Golden Beets roasted and sliced and tossed with red onions and a dressing. On a wood plate with a wood spoon.

Oven Roasted Golden Yellow Beets

Top down view of cooked scallops on a brown plate in a brown orange sauce.

Sticky Scallops with Orange Soy Sauce Glaze

Blue Bowl of Brown Peanut Sauce with a white chinese style spoon in it. On a bamboo placemat.

Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce with Soy

Pan fried and browned cooked tofu in a different shapes (wedges, cubes, slices, triangles) in a dark teflon pan. Side view.

Easy Marinated Tamari Tofu (Soy Sauce)

Two seared pieces of fish on a bed of ceviche salad (avocado, tomatoes, green onion, orange peppers. Top view with white plate

Seared Little Tunny (False Albacore) with Ceviche Salad

6 crispy roasted chicken thigh and leg skins on a small rectangle wood cutting board with an orange square small serving dish of hot sauce.

Crispy Oven Roasted Chicken Skins (Cracklings)

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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