A New Year Dinner of Appetizers!!

So do you remember the movie Mermaids? I think that Cher served her family appetizers for meals! That is my plan for New Years Eve this year! It will just be Murray and I so … appetizers it is for dinner! (and of course I am going to make a delicious dessert)

Continue reading “A New Year Dinner of Appetizers!!”

Antipasto

This is my Aunt Marilyn Lyman’s recipe. I remember her making this & she gave me the recipe aver 30 years ago….

The recipe is just a bunch of jarred pickles, olives, tuna….& a few other ingredients…chopped up, mixed together & wow is it good!My aunt used to chop all fo the ingredients by hand but I don’t do that… I use my food processor. The trick is not to over-chop them…still tastes ok…. i do like my antipasto to be less coarse than the bought ones so I’m ok anyway the ingredients come out of the food processor bowl. You can of course chop the ingredients by hand!

There is a recipe for Antipasto in Norene Gilletz cookbook, Pleasures of Your Processor that is very similar to this recipe. In that book, it says this keeps for 6 weeks….I have also been told it lasts only 3 days…so honestly I do not really know, but have kept it for a couple weeks. If you do not want to keep it for so long, make half the recipe!

Here is the full recipe.which makes 2 large jars….

Ingredients

2 cups sweet pickles, drained

1 can of sliced mushrooms, drained

1 1/2 cups pickled sweet onions

1 1/2 cups of pitted green olives…I use the pimento stuffed ones….

2 cans of tuna, drained & flaked

1 1/4 cups Heinz chili sauce

1 1/3 cups ketchup

dash of lemon juice

a few shakes of worsteshire sauce

Method 

  1. I used my food processor to chop all of the ingredients.  Put the drained pickles in the food processor bowl & pulse a few times until you get the size of the pieces you would like your ingredients to be. Remove the chopped pickles to a bowl
  2. Do the same to the rest of the ingredients…the mushrooms, sweet onions & green onions…
  3. Add the drained tuna
  4. Now add the chili sauce, ketchup, lemon juice & worsteshire sauce…
  5. Mix well
  6. I store this in large pickle sealing jars…

Serve with crackers….

Enjoy!!

cXfXy+ADTRSB2pguv4sJGQQ7RLqkcbSKOCtwIaL+XCDglN7rNLr1R0+v1pW%lMqR7wxYO3iB7yQy+vtjciduuEEgPAtZuuMbTQOwsDPrXif1PwWX4loOBaRTO9DBejmXzztA8D9j575yRRK1tx9r04sz1Af35sOAx9QAu18LURDxOKSg

Cheezies….An Appetizer

This recipe was from my aunt, Marilyn Lyman. I was going through her recipes one day & came across this typewritten recipe for Cheezies… they are a homemade cheese kind of cracker ….The image I get when I think of these is having them at a cocktail party, with the men & woman dressed to the nines.. chatting , drinking martinis & having these lovely little cheese crackers ….

The recipe is a bit vague… I tried them 2 different ways. One as it was written on the card.. mixed by hand…they were a bit crumbly& chunky…..so I tried them again using the food processor & they came out more to my liking..the texture was smooth & the cracker was not crumbly’

Continue reading “Cheezies….An Appetizer”

Baked Chicken Wings – 2 kinds…Hot & Sweet

This post is originally from February 2018… but I am making these wings for dinner tonight & will serve them with a platter of cut up veggies

Here is a recipe for 2 types of chicken wings..one hot, not too hot, & one sweet…not too sweet…so easy for anyone to enjoy!

Continue reading “Baked Chicken Wings – 2 kinds…Hot & Sweet”

Glazed Mini Hotdogs

I did not close my deep freezer door properly the other day….I thought I had..but I guess it didn’t catch..anyway… luckily only a few things in the door were starting to defrost by the time Murray went to the freezer to put some food in there! Phew…I could have been cooking a freezer full of food!!!

Continue reading “Glazed Mini Hotdogs”