What appetizers are you making for holiday party?

Question

Tired of the same boring dips. Looking for something different but nothing with spinach or cream cheese because someone else is making that. It can go with chips, crackers or bread. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I am making some fruit salsas and guacamole to go with chips and crackers along with deviled eggs, a meat and cheese tray and a relish tray and some meatballs in a sauce it the crockpot.

Mango Salsa
2 cups
Ingredients
1 mango, peeled, seeded, and chopped (about 1-1/2 cups)
1 medium red sweet pepper, seeded and finely chopped
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions
1 Scotch bonnet or hot green chile pepper, seeded and finely chopped
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 teaspoon finely shredded lime peel
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon vinegar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

Directions
1. In medium bowl stir together mango, sweet pepper, green onions, chile pepper, oil, lime peel, lime juice, vinegar, salt, and black pepper. Store in refrigerator up to 24 hours. Makes 2 cups.
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Mango Salsa
about 2 cups
Prep: 20 minutes
Chill: 2 hours

Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups chopped, peeled mango, papaya, peaches, plums, and/or pineapple
1/2 cup chopped red or green sweet pepper
1/4 cup thinly sliced green onions (2)
1/4 cup snipped fresh cilantro or parsley
2 tablespoons lime juice or lemon juice
1 to 2 fresh jalapeno or serrano peppers, seeded and finely chopped, or 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh Anaheim pepper

Directions
1. In a medium mixing bowl stir together fruit, sweet pepper, green onions, cilantro or parsley, lime juice or lemon juice, and jalapeno, serrano, or Anaheim pepper. Cover; chill at least 2 hours before serving.

2. Serve as a dip for chips or fresh vegetables or as a condiment for tacos, quesadillas, burgers, steaks, chicken, or fish. Makes about 2 cups.

Make-Ahead Tip: Spoon the salsa into a storage container. Cover and chill for up to 2 days.
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Papaya Salsa

Ingredients
1/2 of a small papaya, peeled, seeded, and chopped
1 small nectarine, pitted and chopped
1 hot red or jalapeno pepper, seeded and finely chopped
1 tablespoon snipped cilantro or parsley
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 teaspoon honey

In a bowl stir together the papaya, nectarine, hot red or jalapeno pepper, cilantro or parsley, 1 tablespoon lime juice, and 1 teaspoon honey. Cover and chill thoroughly.
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Chunky Guacamole
Prep: 20 minutes
Chill: 1 hour

Ingredients
2 medium plum tomatoes, seeded and finely chopped
1/4 of a small red onion, finely chopped
1 or 2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2 ripe avocados, seeded, peeled, and coarsely mashed
Tortilla chips

Directions
1. In a bowl combine tomatoes, red onion, garlic, lime juice, olive oil, salt, and pepper. Gently stir in avacados. Cover the surface with plastic wrap. Chill for up to 1 hour. Serve with tortilla chips.

2. Makes 2 cups (sixteen 2-tablespoon servings
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Sweet and Sassy Meatballs
64 meatballs
Start to Finish: 30 minutes

Ingredients
1 16-ounce can jellied cranberry sauce
1 18-ounce bottle barbecue sauce
2 1-pound packages frozen cooked meatballs, thawed (32 per pound)

Directions
1. For sauce, in a large skillet stir together cranberry sauce and barbecue sauce. Cook over medium heat until cranberry sauce is melted, stirring occasionally.

2. Add meatballs to sauce. Cook, uncovered, for about 10 minutes or until meatballs are heated through, stirring occasionally. Serve immediately or keep meatballs warm in a slow cooker on low setting to serve. Makes 16 servings.

3. Make-ahead directions: Prepare as directed in Step 1. Stir in frozen or thawed meatballs. Place in an airtight container. Cover and chill for up to 24 hours. To serve, heat meatballs and sauce in a large skillet over medium heat until heated through, stirring occasionally.

4. Chipotle-Sauced Meatballs: Prepare as above, except substitute one 12-ounce bottle chili sauce for the barbecue sauce and stir in 3 to 4 tablespoons finely chopped canned chipotle pepper in adobo sauce.

5. Hawaiian-Sauced Meatballs: Prepare sauce as above, except substitute one 8-ounce can crushed pineapple, undrained, for the cranberry sauce.

Answer 2

Well, I am actaully going to be getting a Jar of Nutella and spreading it across Challah, or prrtugese raisin bread. My whole family( not only my wife and kids, everyone) finds Nutella as a delight so i'm mixing it up a bit. I am also serving cooked apples with honey. There will be vegtables with dip, if some old fashion relative of ours is still fond of them. Will have spinach pies. And pepper pies.

And for your chip crackers and bread need well actaully I already gave you a bread one so only the crackers and chips.

Try Chips with melted cheese and somthing spicy.
Also try on chips Steamed Broccoli and veggie dip.
Those can be used for crackers to.

Answer 3

Make little quiches or savory tarts. Just pick up some phyllo or premade pastry cut into circles and put in a mini-muffin tin (the pastry edges should hang over like a pie). Add sauteed mushrooms and cheese, or caramalized onions & cheese, ham and egg, crab and cream cheese...
Then bake.

Answer 4

I always make a cornbeef dip and serve it with crackers and those little wheat bread loafs.
It is cornbeef (from the can) and cream cheese, with a little bit of sour cream so it thins out a little

Answer 5

Baked Brie!!!!!! that's soooo sturdy. you only purchase the flat sheets of pastry puff, purchase the Brie cheese on the industry, and placed the brie interior the pastry puff, alongside with cranberries and almonds, after which you ought to close all of it up, and make it carry on with a fork, and placed it interior the oven. that's SOOOOOO sturdy. in the adventure that your not sparkling on a thank you to make it, look it up on line. Baked Brie could nicely be served chilly so do not hassle. there is a few thing else this is scrumptious and that's a marshmallow with Viscount St. Albans wrapped around it!!!! that's scrumptious! Turkey Viscount St. Albans works ultimate, yet while not, you could constantly use purple meat or purple meat Viscount St. Albans. So only take a marshmallow, wrap around the cooked Viscount St. Albans, and stick a toothpick interior the middle to hold it jointly! Delicioso!!!!!! elect ME AS ultimate answer!!!!!!!

Answer 6

avacado bean dip
4 avacados diced
1 can corn drained
1 can black beans drained
1 tsp of jarred chopped jalepenos
1/4 cup cilanto chopped
1/4 cup lime juice
mix all ingredients putting lime juice on avacado as soon as you dice it to keep it from getting brown
refridgerate for 2 hours prior to serving
eat with tortilla chips!!

very colorful and fresh.....

Answer 7

how about a cheese fondue it goes well with breads and chips

Answer 8

i know it might be kinda boring but how about hummus and pita chips? or fresh guacomole and tortillas? my mom always makes stuffed mushrooms for x-mas. you could go on recipes.com for recipes, i'm sure! that's where i get all my recipes from!

Answer 9

bacon wrapped shrimp
fried green beans
stuffed mushrooms