Now, to get started with your Easy Appetizer Recipes.

You'll find a good selection of easy appetizer recipes here...

They are wonderful to have with drinks from the wine basket while you set up lunch.

Have them near the top of the packing, ready for a great start. Just sip and nibble and start to relax...

But before that, if you find you really are pushed for time, then really simple appetizers are quicker and easier. We often use them for a last minute picnic... or just add any of these easy appetizers, made by you, to your platter.

They are some of our favorite easy appetizer recipes... including those from friends and family.

A lovely platter of picnic appetizers...cheese straws, nuts, pesto. chips...

Sometimes you can have a great picnic with just easy appetizers!

Add mixed crusty bread... including a French baguette...

a bunch of tangy rocket... as a table decoration you can eat!

Add a tasty cheese and big bowls of very delicious, tasty, easy appetizers you have made... Yum!

So, easy appetizer recipes... to get you started... avocado with crunchy walnuts and chunky hummus.

Two very simple recipes, both healthy and very delicious.

You will find your friends will ask for the recipes!

Then prepare something more from the recipes below, fun to do...
you'll find them really tasty and impressive to share with friends... really tasty and delicious!

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A bowl of Artisan olives, will go well with these simple easy appetizer recipes.

Enjoy putting these delicious recipes together... they will fly off the plate!
So, let's make a platter from these easy appetizer recipes.

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Simple Croutons

Really they are pretty simple to make and you will be so pleased. Make big croutons, or small, or long, depending on what you are needing them for.

If this is too much of a fiddle when cooking the picnic recipes then just buy a packet, sometimes when you're in a hurry it's best.

What you need and what to do...

• French bread stick sliced fairly thin... or pita bread, or sliced bread (not fresh and soft), cut into whichever shape you want.
• Melt 60gm(2oz) of butter and mix with 1 table spoon of olive oil. More for larger amounts.
  
• Brush this onto bread... or toss all together in a bowl
• Bake in moderate/hot oven for about 5 min, or until golden and crisp.

           Yay, its done, so easy!

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Pesto… Basil or Rocket

Ingredients

• 2 cups tightly packed with fresh basil, or rocket… or half and half of each
• 4 cloves garlic
• ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/3 cup pine nuts, or walnuts
• 5-6 tablespoons olive oil

Then

• Place basil, or rocket, garlic and nuts in blender. Pulse blender few times
• Add cheese and continue to blend with olive oil pouring in slowly.
• If you like a chunky pesto, don’t pulse, or blend, as long.

You will have a great tasty pesto which you can use as a dip with croutons.

Smoked Salmon

Here are some of the appetizer recipes which our family and friends find most popular.

There are so many things… yummy things… you can do with smoked salmon as an appetizer, or main course.

Please make sure these smoked salmon easy appetizers are kept cool.

Salmon on French Stick Slices, or in pastry cases… an old favorite from our picnic recipes.

Note the milder tasting, large caper berries, too... don't they look great!

To make smoked salmon canapes

Ingredients

A small French stick... or a packet of pastry cases... or thick brown bread cut into rounds

250 gm (8oz) spreadable cream cheese

Prepared horseradish... approx 1 tablespoon… or more to taste

Packet sliced smoked salmon

Thinly sliced red onion rings

Caper berries

Finely sliced lemon cut into little triangles

To put together

Cut the French stick into rounds... or spread out the little pastry cases, or brown bread

Mix horseradish into cream cheese with a fork... Spread on base quite generously

Finely sliced lemon cut into little triangles pushed into the cream so they don't fall off.

Small slices of smoked salmon are placed on this… just as they come from the packet and with a little upward twist so they look appetizing… or flat if you prefer.

Top with an onion ring and a caper berry. If you have access to large capers with stems still on, they have quite a delicate flavor and look more exotic.

Finish with cracked pepper.

Makes about 10 pieces.

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Smoked Salmon Wraps...  and pesto, on this platter of easy appetizer recipes...
Perhaps for a special occasion.

Smoked Salmon, stuffed, then tied up with a long chive!

You should try this picnic recipe... smoked salmon wrapped around this filling... a really impressive looking appetizer recipe.

For one…

A teaspoon of cream cheese... just add a little horseradish to taste

Small wedge of finely sliced lemon

Thin slice of dill cucumber

Cut sliced smoked salmon into a long rectangular shape to carefully and gently, wrap around the filling

Tie together with a long blanched chive

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Smoked salmon and avocado go together very well too, for appetizer recipes.

Just use avocado chunks instead of dill cucumbers and less cream cheese.

Tie it with a blanched chive, or use a tooth pick.

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  Basil, Bocconcini Cheese and Cherry Tomato for the Picnic Recipes

This is so easy and looks and tastes great, so do try it for one of your appetizer recipes.

They also go well with a bowl of pesto, just drizzle a small amount over them.

Ingredients

Pot of Bocconcini… those small mild cheese balls in brine... mozzarella cheese balls made from Buffalo milk.

Cherry tomatoes… similar number and size as Bocconcini... can be the varied colours of Heritage tomatoes, if you have them.

Bunch of fresh basil.

Extra virgin olive oil... mixed with pesto preferably.

Method

• Cut small Bocconcini in halves
• Cut cherry tomatoes of similar size, also in halves
• Place a small fresh basil leaf… or part of if they are too big (or fold over)... between the cheese and tomato and hold together with a toothpick.
• Make sure toothpicks are long enough, or they will fall apart.
• I often use a skewer and cut them to size after putting cheese and tomatoes on.
• Leave enough skewer length beyond the ingredients, to hold these picks.
• They should be a good bite size with basil leaf showing out between the two.
• Drizzle a small amount of olive oil over these just as they are served... or olive oil and pesto... yum!

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Try this Tasty Olive Dip from the easy appetizer recipes.

Ingredients

1/2 red onion

½ cup fresh Italian parsley

2 anchovy fillets

Approximately 2 teaspoons of capers

6 pitted green or black olives

Method

Chop fairly finely these ingredients, separately and then combine in a bowl

Combine ¼ cup of good olive oil and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and pour over chopped ingredients and mix carefully.

You can make this the day before with your picnic recipes…cover and store in fridge

This dip goes well with French bread, crackers, pita bread or croutons or vegetable sticks for picnic recipes.

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Puff Pastry Squares

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 Lu Lu’s Bread Dip

This recipe from my sister, is another to add to the easy appetizer recipes… great for hungry picnickers. I have doubled this picnic recipe if a crowd of people was expected at the picnic.

Ingredients

• 1 Large round loaf of bread
• 250gm Philadelphia cheese (1 packet)
• 6 slices ham… chopped into small pieces
• 1 Clove crushed garlic
• 6 Spring onions chopped finely
• 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice… more to taste
• Salt and pepper

To put together

• Cut “lid” off bread and tear inner soft bread into bite size pieces… put to one side
• Leave bread crust/shell whole... like a bowl
• Mix all other ingredients together and then put into bread shell
• Put “lid” back on bread and wrap bread in foil
• Warm in oven 150⁰C (300⁰ F ) for 1hour 10 minutes
• For the last 20 min take foil off bread and also put soft bread bits in oven to toast. If you just peel foil back, leaving the bread to sit on it, will help if you want to carry it in foil... just wrap back when cooked.
  

These crunchy bits are dipped into the bread bowl… Delicious! We like this picnic recipe either warm or cold.

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Avocado Dip

Ingredients

2 ripe avocados

A good squeeze of lemon

1 ripe tomato

1 small onion

3 cloves garlic

Chili sauce (optional) to taste, or a few sprinkles of dried chili... gives a bite.

Method

Cut avocado in half lengthwise and remove stone

Crush with a fork into creamy chunky bits

Add lemon juice

Roughly chop tomato and onion… fairly fine

Crush garlic

Combine avocado with roughly chopped tomato and onion and garlic and chili

This dip is tasty with just these ingredients, but is also tasty with… lime juice added, instead of lemon juice.

Serve these appetizer recipes with corn chips, or croutons, or pastry squares.

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Nance’s Cheese Toasties

An old family favorite from my Mother’s easy appetizer recipes... always popular with the picnic recipes. This was always requested from the family, for birthday gatherings too.

Ingredients

9 slices of bread

2 eggs

2 cups tasty cheese

1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

Few drop Tabasco sauce

Pepper and salt

Pinch mustard powder... or ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard cream

4-5 chopped rashers of bacon

Pinch Paprika

Method

Cut crusts off and butter bread (I usually only butter the side not having the topping)

Cut rind and excess fat from bacon and chop into small pieces

Beat eggs

Put bacon and Paprika to one side

Combine all other ingredients into egg mixture

Mix together until thick and creamy

Spread on the bread slices

Sprinkle chopped bacon on top

Sprinkle with a little paprika

Cook in oven 150°-160°C ( 300°-325° F ) on metal trays, until brown, approx 10-15 mins

Now you have the beginning of a good selection of easy appetizer recipes.

This should help you when planning your picnic.

They are easy appetizer recipes you can use any time.

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