any quick ideas for appetizers this thanksgiving?

Answer 1

Cheese-Filled Mushrooms
1 1/2 pounds white mushrooms
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
3/4 cup mayonnaise
Crumbled cooked bacon, to taste (optional)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease a large cookie sheet; set aside. (If desired, line cookie sheet with aluminum foil to save on cleanup.) Wash mushrooms thoroughly; dry and remove stems, hollowing out a hole where the stem was attached to the mushroom. Set aside. Mix together cheeses, mayonnaise and bacon (if using). Pack the center of each mushroom with a mound of the cheese mixture. Arrange mushrooms on cookie sheet. Bake until cheese is browned and mushrooms are shiny, about 20 minutes. Mushrooms may be stuffed and refrigerated ahead of time, then baked as needed.


Tomato-Mozarella Bites
20 grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
20 fresh basil leaves
20 small balls fresh mozzarella cheese (often labeled bocconcini)
salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
20 toothpicks

Using a toothpick, spear a half of a tomato, a piece of basil, a mozzarella ball, and another half of a tomato. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Place on a serving dish and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Mix the vinegar and oil together in a small bowl to serve as a dipping sauce.


Cocktail Meatballs
1 bag cooked, frozen meatballs
1 16 oz. can Jellied Cranberry sauce
1 12 oz. bottle chili sauce
2 TBLSP dark brown sugar
1 TBLSP lemon juice

Combine all ingredients in crockpot, cook 2-3 hours until cooked through and serve.

SO SIMPLE APPETIZER
1 loaf Italian or French bread, sliced diagonally
Salami
Cheese (Provolone, Mozzarella, American or your favorite) sliced
Tomato
Italian dressing

Top each slice of bread with salami, cheese, tomato and Italian dressing. Broil until bubbly. Serve immediately.


Appetizer Kabobs
Kabob skewers
40 cocktail smokies
20 cubes mozarella cheese
20 cubes cheddar cheese
40 jumbo black olives

Warm cocktail smokies. Cut kabob skewers in half. Thread each half-skewer in this order 1 black olive, 1 cube mozarella, 1 cocktail smokie, 1 cube cheddar cheese, 1 cocktail smokie, 1 black olive. Makes 20 kabobs.

Answer 2

Mini hot dogs with the Pillsbury crescent roll dough wrapped around them
Chips and Dip
Hot wings
Potato skins
mini pizzas
mini quiches
Shrimp cocktail
Crab cocktail
Small cheese platter
Celery filled w/ cream cheese topped w/ raisins
Celery filled w/ peanut butter topped w/ raisins
Brushetta
mozzarella and pepperoni roll sliced really thin
Carpachio

Most of the appetizers that are listed are usually for a football game, since there is a football game on Thanksgiving.

Answer 3

I'm having the same dilemma. Decided on Tapenade with Crostini. You can find many recipes for the Tapenade on the internet. Also: Baked Artichoke and Jalapeno Cheese Spread 1 8-oz pkg cream cheese (room temp_ 1/3 cup mayo 12 oz can of artichoke hearts, diced (not marinaded) 1/4 cup minced red bell pepper A couple of jalapeno, minced (that's up to you and if you can handle the heat) 1/2 cup grated Parmesan 1/3 cup Panko Water Wafers Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Spray 9-inch pan with cooking spray. In medium bowl, stir together cream cheese and mayo. Stir in artichokes, bell pepper and jalapeno. Add in all cheese except 1 tbsp. Stir into artichoke mixture. Spread cheese mixture evenly in bottom of pie plate. Sprinkle evenly with Panko and leftover 1 tbsp Parmesan Bake about 20 minutes or just untili top is lightly golden. Serve with crackers. This spread is so good ppl always ask for the recipe. Nice. Pear slices with creamy blue cheese wrapped in proscuitto. Carmelized Chili Shrimp Or a good Spinach dip with Triscuit. They're all good and easy to make.

Answer 4

Make a "pinecone" cheeseball. Use any recipe to make a typical cheeseball and then chill it a bit so that you can manipulate it. Spray your hands with a little Pam and form the ball into the shape of a pinecone. Use pecan halves or almonds to form the part of the pinecone that pokes out (I don't know what they are called). If you put it on a plate with some crusty bread or fancy crackers and a few long springs of rosemary (which looks and smells "piney") your family will think that you slaved for them!

Answer 5

cream cheese ranch cresents
you take 11/2 pkgs cream cheese
Ranch dip mix
1 pkg of cresent rolls
1/3 cup Mayo
1/2 cup of red a green peppers cut in small peices
spreed the cresent rolls out on a pan flat bake
cool
mix together cream cheese dip mix and mayo in a bowl and spreed on cresent
garnish with peppers and cut into squares
refrigerate 1 hr
serve

Answer 6

These are easy and good.Buy black olives,peanuts,can cheap biscuits, and Parmesan cheese.Take the biscuits and cut in 4's-Take an olive and put a peanut inside then wrap biscuit around it, roll in Parmesan cheese and bake on 350 for 9mins.you'll have to make a lot--They are good.Here's another one---Dry salami, spread with cream cheese roll around a gherkin.These are good if you let them sit in fridge a while before serving....

Answer 7

Mix together a can or package of crab meat with a bottle of cocktail sauce and a dash of Tabasco or other hot sauce and pour it over a block of cream cheese. Serve with an assortment of crackers. Delish!

Answer 8

Little smokies in a sauce of half grape jelly and half chili sauce, in the crockpot (these are fantastic!)

Tortillas spread with soft onion/chive cream cheese, layered with thin slices hard salami. Roll up, chill, and slice into 1" pinwheels.

Chicken wings in a half water, half soysauce, in oven or crockpot. Another delicious one!

Answer 9

Get those little smoked sausages that come packed in a bag, place them in a saucepan with a jar of Ingelhoffer Sweet-Hot mustard and heat on low. serve hot on toothpics with crackers of your choice. Delicious, Neat, Fast.

Answer 10

use refrigerated crescent roll dough to roll up par-boiled ,or blanched asparigus tips like "pigs in a blanket" with a little parm. cheese inside. brush with melted butter and sprinkle with more parmesan. cheese and bake till browned. ...delicious...