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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
Brown Roasted Crispy bacon on an elevated wire rack over an aluminum lined sheet pan.

Easy Mess Free Oven Bacon

Close up of Red Purple Tomato slices, Mozzarella cheese slices, and basil leaf.

Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad

Halved figs, rolled prosciutto, chunks of cantaloupe on a platter with small mint leaves.

Figs, Prosciutto, Cantaloupe Appetizer

Sliced Salami, Brie Cheese, Baguette Loaf and bowl of olives,

Salami, Bread, Cheese - Dinner is Done!

Multiple bowls of food on a wood cutting board. brie, apples with blue cheese, cornichons, green grapes, slices of ciabatta, green salad.

Picnic on the Piazza

White plate with a layer of sliced tomatoes at the bottom. On top is diced grouper and cucumbers with fresh dill and capers.

Grouper, Cucumber, Tomato Salad

5 pieces of toasted baguette slices with mascarpone, grapefruit slices, sliced kalamata olives, and fresh rosemary on top.

Grapefruit and Olive Crostini

Sliced Pepperoncini, caper, mozzarella cheese, browned pizza topped with fresh sliced basil.

Homemade Pepperoncini & Caper Pizza

Roasted sliced eggplant and red peppers over creamy polenta with fresh cherry tomatoes and garnished with feta and basil

Roasted Eggplant & Peppers w Polenta

¾ of a plate filled with browned gnocchi, sautéed kale, and ground sausage. On a white plate with a white napkin with small colorful flowers. Top view.

Pan Fried Gnocchi with Sausage and Kale

Stacked & Fried Eggrolls On a Tan Plate with a white blow of guacamole. side view.

Crispy Southwest Vegetarian Egg Rolls

5 crostini (little toast) with green pesto and parmesan sprinkled on the top. Garnished with lemon zest. On a white plate

Mizuna and Walnut Pesto Crostini

Figs with an x cut in the top and baked and stuffed with Goat cheese and drizzled with honey. Oval off white baking dish.

Roast Figs Stuffed With Goat Cheese (Chèvre)

4 small pieces of tuna coated in sesame seeds and fried. One is cut open to expose the rare inside. On a plate with asparagus.

Sesame Tuna With Wasabi Sauce

Baked Triangles of Crab Rangood on a tan plate with a side of brown soy dipping sauce. 2 sets of chopsticks.

Baked Crab Rangoon

Blue oval bowl of golden brown pan fried gnocchi dumplings. On a white table with a silver fork and white napkin.

Easy Homemade Potato Gnocchi

Deep Fried Egg Rolls filled with green chiles, cheese, and mangos stacked on a white platter and served with a bowl of guacamole.

Mango Green Chiles with Guacamole

White plate of brown seared / blistered small green peppers with a small white bowl of light orange peach sauce.

Blistered Shishito Peppers with Peach Sauce

Breaded and Fried Green Tomatoes Layered and laying on a white paper towels on a white plate.

Southern Fried Green Tomatoes

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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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