Guess what time it is? It’s Secret Recipe time! This months assignment for the Secret Recipe Club was for me to go sneak around A Spoonful of Thyme’s food blog. The site belongs to Kate who is a seasoned traveler (I’m a little jealous here) and her lovely food blog is filled with many, many [...]
Archive for the ‘Appetizers’ Category
Shrimp and Lime Cocktail – Secret Recipe Club
Posted in Appetizers, Salad, Seafood, Secret Recipe Club, tagged shrimp, seafood, appetizer, lime, secret recipe club, cocktail on February 20, 2012 | 14 Comments »
Chicken and Roasted Red Pepper Quisadilla
Posted in Appetizers, Chicken, Lunch, Quick and Easy, tagged cabot, cheese, chicken, feta, quisadilla, roasted red pepper, tortillas on January 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I love a really good Chicken Quisadilla and when you make them yourself at home, your completely in charge of the outcome. I don’t particularly like a lot of cheese on my food and when asking for light cheese in a restaurant, it still comes loaded on. In this write-up I have not written any amounts, simply just make it [...]
Spicy Sausage Dip
Posted in Appetizers, Dip, Quick and Easy, tagged chiles, cream cheese, dip, easy, food, green chiles, quick, sausage, spicy, tomatoes on November 14, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are coming up and there will be parties, family gatherings and potluck’s at work, so we need something that’s delicious of course, quick and easy to prepare such as a little side dish, snack or appetizer if you will. This Spicy Sausage Dip is simply excellent! It is so easy and quick [...]
Shrimp and Feta Cheese Quiche
Posted in Appetizers, Breakfast, Seafood, tagged cheese, eggs, feta, half-and-half, pepper, pie, quiche, red, roashed, shrimp, tart on October 31, 2011 | 9 Comments »
This recipe is from an old Everyday magazine. I had made this quiche a couple of times and my guests always loved it. It’s the kind of quiche that dissappears from the pie dish in no time at all. Then I lost the magazine and I tried to recreate it from memory but something was missing. I [...]
Kaja’s Corn Salad (borrowed from Henriette)
Posted in Appetizers, Lunch, Quick and Easy, Salad, Side dish, tagged bell pepper, corn, cranberries, cucumber, peas, pine nuts, raspberry, salad, vinaigrette on September 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
My Danish friend Kaja served this wonderful salad for our last get-together, which she in turn got from my other Danish friend Henriette. It is simple, refreshing and good for you. Kaja served it with walnuts which was very delicious but my favorite kinda nut is pine nuts and so I choose pine for this presentation. The raspberry walnut [...]
Pasta Salad with Sun-dried Tomatoes
Posted in Appetizers, Quick and Easy, Salad, Side dish, tagged ABGT, blacksmith, forge, gentile, jganvil, kalamata, olives, parmesan, pasta, salad, sun-dried, tomatoes on August 15, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I was looking for a good Pasta Salad to serve for the “BurleyMen Club” :) aka Artist Blacksmith Group of Tidewater for their monthly meeting held at Gentile Forge. I came across this Pasta Salad and thought it sounded super delicious. Sun-dried tomatoes and Kalamate olives, what a winning combination. And it was delicious!….but….I’m now thinking that it [...]
Roasted Tomato Basil Soup
Posted in Appetizers, Comfort food, Lunch, Main course, Soup, tagged basil, roasted tomatoes, soup, tomato on September 13, 2010 | 17 Comments »
If you read my blog on a regular basis you’ll know that I am a bit of a tomato freak. So it makes sense that tomato soup is one of my favorite types of soup. In my humble opinion, there is nothing more soothing than a bowl of warm and slightly peppery tomato soup served with a slice of [...]
Blinis with Smoked Salmon and Caviar
Posted in Appetizers, New Years Eve, Seafood, tagged appetizer, blinis, caviar, pancakes, russian, salmon, sour cream on September 6, 2010 | 8 Comments »
This post is not a recipe but rather a collection of ingredients which make up a delicious little appetizer. I first had this at my Danish friend Tina’s house and I was immediately hooked. It consist of these wonderful mini pancakes called Blinis which are Russian in origin and traditionally made of buckwheat flour and yeast. However, [...]
Hummus with Roasted Red Bell Pepper
Posted in Appetizers, Dip, Lunch, tagged bell pepper, chickpeas, dakota fanning, garbanzo beans, hummus, roasted red bell pepper, tahini, tom cruise, war of the worlds on August 15, 2010 | 18 Comments »
My first encounter with Hummus was when I watched the movie War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Tom Cruise picks up a wedge of pita and dips it into the Hummus, starts to eat it and then puts on an expression of disgust and horrid. The conversation goes something [...]






