Appetizers on the Menu

In today's world of super size, we all need more amouse bouche on our menus. Each food tasting should be a single bite of explosion in the mouth. Sometimes that single bite of flavor will leave you craving more but also be so fulfilling like a truffle. In creating or preparing appetizer recipes, it is important to keep this thought in mind.
An appetizer can be a downgrade of a large scale item to a minature scale. Like instead of using a whole sausage dog for each guest, a little mini sausage can be implemented. At restaurant minutaure food items are also called sliders. (I havent found the mini hot dog buns at local stores but the mini hamburger buns are at Trader Joe's.)

Here's a couple recipes up for copying and pasting:

Quesadillas

Easy, simple, quick, and very tasty!

You will need on your shopping list the following items:

Tortillas: Larger the tortilla the larger the triangles provided to guests.
Cheese: A mexican mixture of preshredded cheese helps decrease time grating.
Salsa: Pick up your favorite

Optional:
Pick up a rostierre chicken to add some protein.
Avocado
Olives
Avocado
Fresh tomatoes

Technique:

Heat up a large skillet with medium heat.
Add olive oil to your pan.
As the pan heats up.
Grab a large plate and start assembling the quesadilla.
Add a tortilla and evenly spread salsa and cheese over it (and the optional chicken). Then add another tortilla on top. Carefully place this in the heated up frying pan.
Let it brown on one side and flip.
Continue to the assembling until all ingridients are used up.

Once the quesadilla has cooled a little, cut the tortilla like a pie into halves.
At this point, top the triangle with avocado slice, sour cream, and an olive.

Enjoy!


Double Cooked Baked Potato

This is one of my favorite recipes to eat. It is yummy and fulfilling.

Prepare washed brown potatoes for a 400 degree oven. Let it cooked until a fork pierces through the skin.
Once done, remove from oven and let it cool before handling. This will take about 10-15 minutes at least.
Next cut the potatoes evenly in half length wise. Remove the inside of the potato carefully to leave a shape of a potato shape and place it in a bowl. Continue with each baked potato.
Smash the potato insides with milk, butter, and cheese. Add some seasoning of pepper and salt to taste. As an optional color, cooked broccoli florets can be added for color and texture.
Return the mashed potato mixture to the potato skin shapes.
Sprinkle some more cheese over the top and place them back in the oven to melt & heat up the filling.
Once they are done remove and top with your favorite baked potato toppings.



Seven Layer Dip

Prepare in a rectangular baking dish or pie pan.
Add the following ingredients in the following order:

Refried Beans
Salsa
Guacamole
Sour Cream
Shredded Cheese
Olives slices
Fresh Diced Tomatoes
Green Onions

Open up a bag of tortilla chips and let your guests enjoy.


Appetizer Deserts

Chocolate and Vanilla Pudding Parfaits

You will need instant pudding boxes of vanilla and chocolate.
Follow the directions on the box to prepare the pudding.

You will need a tub of cool whip.

A package of oreo cookies.

Clear champagne glasses

Assemble each cup the following way:

A scoop of chocolate, a scoop of cool whip, a scoop of vanilla, a scoop of chocolate, a scoop of cool whip, and top with a cookie.

These glasses turn out really cool looking and an elegant desert.