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Recipes - Appetizers & Snacks
Front-Ranger:
Those gift baskets sound great! You are lucky your boys like food gifts. That makes it easier to shop for them.
This is the latest cranberry appetizer I've made and it was a big hit with crackers and asiago cheese spread:
Cranberry Salsa: sack of raw cranberries, juice of a lime, sugar to taste, a jalape?o, cilantro, green onion, lastly fold in pomegranate. Good with soft cheese and crackers.
serious crayons:
Yum! The cranberry appetizer sounds good.
Yeah, my sons pretty much ONLY like food gifts. Occasionally I'll try a book, maybe a small kitchen appliance. I struck gold once with a toiletries bag from a posh men's store. But they've made clear for years that anything I could afford to buy them they probably wouldn't like. At one point when I was underemployed I got a job at Macy's so I could get the employee discount for Christmas, and everyone got sweaters. Ralph Lauren! But the next year they informed me that Macy's doesn't sell anything they would want. :laugh:
I've added the peppers with gorgonzola and sweet onions to my appetizer plans. Got the two fillings yesterday but still have to visit TJ's.
The plan is to bring that alongside my traditional smoked salmon rollups that I see I mentioned here in 2008!
Front-Ranger:
Bettermost has served to show us what creatures of habit we are. More than once I've thought to post something and then I see that I already posted it several years ago!
I'm in a similar boat with gift giving. My son is actually an apparel designer. He's also a weird size--tall with wide shoulders and a small waist. But I think I've found something he'll like. Fortunately, he's very into golf and I got him a gift certificate to one of these simulator bars that are cropping up all over. The food and drink are real but the golf is simulated, and you can play practically any course in the world!
Most food gifts are out also. His wife is something of a nutritionist and is a marathoner so my concoctions usually have something verboten. But I did drop off some sushi for him last week that was a hit. They are minimalists, a very difficult group to buy for.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 16, 2023, 07:59:39 pm --- I also like to stuff their mini-bell peppers with gorgonzola mixed with sweet onion spread.
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Lee, are the mini bells you're talking about the shape of regular bells but small? And how small -- like two bites worth?
I ask because I googled them and the only ones that came up are shaped like jalape?os.
serious crayons:
I looked at the nearby TJ's last night and the smallest bells they had were only slightly smaller than average. They'd still take at least four or five bites to eat, which doesn't seem ideal for something with creamy onion/cheese open filling.
There's a bigger TJ's not far away, if there's any hope they'll have something smaller there ...
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