Appetizer Recipes

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Appetizer Recipes

DIPS

EASY ARTICHOKE DIP
8 1/2 oz can artichoke hearts
1 cup parmesan cheese
1 cup mayo
Dash garlic powder
May be served hot or cold, serve with crackers or chips. Yummy!

EASY VEGGIE DIP
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
2 Tb dill weed
2 Tb parsley flakes
2 Tb minced onion
1 Tb Lawry's seasoning

Mix together ingredients and refrigerate.

HOMEMADE GUACAMOLE
2 ripe avocados
1 ripe tomato, diced
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tb lemon juice
1 tsp salt
pepper

Cut avocados in half, throw away pit and scrape out flesh. In a bowl smash up avocados and add remaining ingredients. Serve with chips.

SPINACH DIP
1 (10 oz) pkg frozen chopped spinach (thaw & drain)
1 cup sour cream
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup chopped water chestnuts
1 medium onion, chopped
1 pkg Knorr Vegetable Soup Mix

Mix ingredients until smooth. Refrigerate overnight. Serve with veggies or crackers, or hollow out a loaf of bread and place dip in center of bread. Use hollowed out pieces of bread to dip.

TACO DIP
8 oz cream cheese
8 oz sour cream
1/2 - 1 pkg taco seasoning
Mix these three ingredients together.

Next add in layers:
2 diced tomatoes
1 diced green pepper
1 diced onion
1 pkg (8 oz) shredded cheddar cheese
Top with sliced black olives.

Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve with chips.

HOT APPETIZERS

SAUSAGE CHEESE BALLS
2 pkgs uncooked pork sausage (Jimmy Dean, or off brand will work)
16 oz cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups bisquick
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 tsp garlic powder

Preheat oven to 350.
Mix all ingredients together. Form into 1" balls. Bake @ 350 for 15 minutes on ungreased baking sheet until golden brown. Makes about 6 dozen. Sausage Balls can be frozen raw or cooked.

SWISS CHEESE MUSHROOM BREAD
16 oz fresh mushrooms sliced
16 oz swiss cheese shredded
1 stick of butter
1/2 tsp lemon juice
2 Tb chopped onion
1 Tb yellow mustard
2 Tb poppy seeds
1 tsp salt
1 round or rectangle loaf of bread

Preheat oven to 350.
Melt butter and mix all ingredients (except for bread) together. Cut crisscross sections into the loaf of bread and put mixture into bread. Wrap in foil and place on cookie sheet. Bake @ 350 for 35 minutes or until cheese is melted.

COLD APPETIZERS

HERBED DEVILED EGGS
6 hard boiled eggs
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1-2 Tb mustard
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tsp dill weed
1/2 tsp parsley
dash pepper

Cut eggs in half lengthwise. Remove yolks. Add to the yolks, mayonnaise, mustard, dill, parsley, salt and pepper; mix well. Pipe or spoon into egg whites. Sprinkle with parsley or dill, refrigerate until serving.

**HOW TO HARD BOIL AN EGG**
Place cold water in a pan to cover your eggs. Cover and bring to a boil. Turn off heat when water comes to a boil and leave the pan on the burner covered for 15 minutes. Then, drain off hot water and immediately submerse eggs in cold ice water to cool. To peel tap each end of egg on the counter and then gently roll egg under slight pressure of your hand to crack shell. Peel shell off and rinse under water to make sure no shell remains.

CREAMY SHRIMP MOUSSE
1 can cr. mushroom soup
1 pkg (8oz) cream cheese
1 cup mayonnaise
1 envelope unflavored gelatin
6 Tb cold water
1 can (6 oz) small shrimp, rinsed and drained
3/4 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery

In saucepan combine soup, cream cheese & mayo. Cook and stir over medium heat until smooth; remove from heat. In small saucepan, sprinkle gelatin over water; let stand 1 minute. Heat on low until gelatin is dissolved. Put in mixing bowl; cool slightly. Add shrimp, onion, celery to cream cheese mixture. Transfer to 6-cup greased mold. Refrigerate 4 hours or over night. Serve with crakcers. Makes 5 cups.

...that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed...
Titus 2:4-5