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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
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

5 scallops on a white plate with 2 lemon wedges. One scallop is cut in half and has a fork sticking in it.

Easy Seared Scallops with Butter

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

Sheet pan lined with aluminum foil with cooked meatballs with basil on it. Top view.

Italian Pork Sausage Meatballs

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

White bowl of crispy shiitake mushrooms with 4 sprigs of rosemary in it and a purple napkin on the side. Side View.

Fresh Pan Fried Shiitake Mushrooms with Black Pepper

Top view of 3 black bowls of edamame with ginger and soy sauce on a wood cutting board with 3 sets of chopsticks.

Easy Shelled Edamame with Soy Sauce

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

Brown bowl full of cooked diced chicken, diced celery and pickles, diced red onions stirred with white mayonnaise and garnished with parsley. Wood spoon in it.

The Best Cold Chicken Salad

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

Cooked Pickled Shrimp with thin sliced onions In a blue bowl with a spoon sticking out. 2 wood bowls with small forks on the side. close up.

Lowcountry Quick Pickled Shrimp

Little Cornichon pickles wrapped with Arugula and rolled up in salami with colorful toothpicks holding them together. Ten of them on a wood plate.

Easy Salami Appetizer with Pickles

Small blue bowl of off white hummus with a mint garnish. Spoon inserted into hummus.

Easy Homemade Hummus

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

Fresh Chunky Tomato Salsa (Pico de Gallo)

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Simple Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

Tan bowl of sliced black olives with walnuts and chopped figs mounded in bowl with a spoon and garnished with parsley. side view.

Easy Kalamata Olive Tapenade with Figs

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

Lemon Parsley Compound Butter On A Cutting Board With Ingredients. Side view.

Lemon, Parsley, Garlic Compound Butter

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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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