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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
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)

Close up of Deviled Eggs Topped with Chow Chow (Pickled Tomatoes) on a white plate

Deviled Eggs with Pickled Chow Chow

A piece of toast on a wood cutting board topped with pimento cheese, arugula, and sliced small tomatoes. 3 tomatoes in backdrop.

Pimento Cheese & Arugula Tartine

Cooked shrimp in a deep plate with halved cherry tomatoes and basil pesto. Garnished with Pine nuts.

Shrimp with Basil Pesto and Cherry Tomatoes

Brown Roasted Chicken legs in a cilantro sauce in a blue baking dish. Close up. Side view.

Baked Thai Chicken Drumsticks

Tomato Tart with different sizes and colors of tomatoes on golden puff pastry with basil leaves and sliced basil garnish.

Easy Tomato Tart with Puff Pastry

6 slices of cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto. On a live edge wood cutting board.

Prosciutto Wrapped Melon

Crostini (little toasts) topped with spreaded mascarpone, a peach slice, and a mint leaf. Several crostini's ona wood cutting board.

Peach and Mascarpone Crostini

Green Shishito Peppers blistered with dark sear marks in a cast iron pan.

Cast Iron Blistered Shishito Peppers

White bowl of ½ blended and ½ chunky cucumber and tomato gazpacho soup with basil leaf garnish

Fresh Cold Gazpacho Soup Recipe

Close up top image of cooked cherry tomatoes, sliced basil, creamy chunks of goat cheese, sliced pepperoncini, and garlic in a bowl.

Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

Close up of wood bowl of cucumber soup with chunky cucumber and red onion garnish. White bowl of cucumber garnish on side.

Cold Cucumber Dill Soup

3 Cooked Pan Fried Easy Crab Cakes Recipe On White Plates. Side View.

Perfect and Easy Crab Cakes

Sausage, cheese, and rice wrapped collard greens on a wood cutting board. One cut open.

Sausage and Cheese Collard Green Wraps

Chili Lime Compound Butter Roll on a wooden cutting board with a bowl of fresh lime juice with a teaspoon in it, fresh sliced bread, a lime, and ground chili powder with a butter knife.

Chili Butter with Lime and Honey

Top down view of sliced cucumbers and red onions in a tan bowl. Close up.

Cold Cucumber Dill Salad

Top view of a small white bowl of ceviche (diced white fish, red onions, yellow and red peppers, lime juice, and cilantro) with 3 crackers sticking out of bowl.

Fresh Amberjack Ceviche Summer!

Top down view of open clams and sausage in sauce in a green bowl with a baguette on the side.

Clams and Chorizo in White Wine Sauce

Baked Meatballs elevated on a wire rack above an aluminum lined baking sheet.

Buffalo Meatballs with Dill Sauce

Sliced avocado, sliced tomato, basil leaves all layered on a wood cutting board with a balsamic sauce drizzled on top.

Sliced Avocado, Basil, And Tomato Salad

Shrimp Salad w/ Horseradish, Chives, Lemon In A White Bowl.

Simple and Easy Cold Shrimp Salad

6 tomato halves filled with wild rice, basil pesto, pine nuts, and feta cheese with Parmesan cheese broiled on the top. Close up.

Stuffed Baked Tomatoes with Pesto

Mason quart jar filled with whole okra and sliced red peppers.

Easy Quick Pickled Refrigerator Okra

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

Two wood bowls of seaweed salad (1 bowl is dry and 1 bowl is rehydrated) with 3 sets of chopsticks. Side view.

Easy Wakame Seaweed Salad

Blue bowl of blended tan pinto bean hummus on a wood cutting board with a lemon half and spoon in the background.

Easy Creamy Pinto Bean Hummus

Close up of fresh diced tomatoes, jalapenos, red onions, cilantro in a bowl.

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

Arugula Salad topped with small mozzarella balls and cherry tomatoes on two white plates with knife and fork and salt and pepper shakers. top view.

Arugula Caprese Salad with Ciliegine Mozzarella

Slices of Tomato, basil leaves, crumbled goat cheese on a white square plate with two forks.

Tomato, Basil & Goat Cheese (Chèvre) Salad

Sea Bean Salad Close Up On a White/Blue Plate w/ diced Cucumbers & Red Peppers | EatSimpleFood.com

Crunchy Sea Bean (Samphire) Salad

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