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Recipes, Links and Information => Members' Recipes Recipes Index => Appetizers and Snacks => Topic started by: Etta Sue on July 29, 2004, 12:30:49 PM
APPETIZER & BEVERAGE HINTS- Try ½ cup of plain yogurt, 2 packages low-cal sweetener, and 2 tablespoons
of vanilla mixed together for a cereal topping, a decorative dessert topping
or an appetite appeaser. It is also a good source of calcium.
- For a quick low calorie dip, blend one 12-ounce carton of cottage cheese, 2
tablespoons of lemon juice, and a desired amount of Good Season's Italian
dry dressing. Mix in blender until smooth and refrigerate until ready to use.
- Use pretzel sticks instead of toothpicks when serving cubes of cheese.
Stick one pretzel into your favorite cheese cube for added flavor and ease
of handling.
- For a crispy, novel sandwich, prepare sandwich with a filling that's not too
moist. Lightly butter the outside of both sides of the sandwich and bake in
your waffle iron.
- Nuts will come out of the shell in halves if soaked overnight in salt water
before cracking. After cracking black walnuts, let stand overnight and they
can be removed from the shell more easily.
- Keep unpopped popcorn in the freezer to help eliminate unpopped kernels.
- Sprinkle popcorn lightly with warm water and let stand a few hours before
popping. The added moisture makes it pop better.
- Slip plastic bags onto your hands when shaping popcorn balls. They won't
stick to your hands or burn them.
- Rub a little butter over cheese that isn't to be used right away and it
won't harden.
- Spread a cored apple ring with cream cheese or peanut butter. Top with a
second cored apple ring.
- Dip ends of carrot, celery or cucumbers sticks into softened cream cheese.
Sprinkle with minced parsley.
- Combine 3 ounces cream cheese, softened, and 2½ ounces deviled ham.
Blend well. Use to stuff bite-sized pieces of celery.
- Tomato tempter: Combine ¾ cup cold milk, ½ cup tomato-vegetable cocktail
juice, ½ teaspoon Worchestershire sauce, and salt to taste. Blend well.
Makes 1 serving.
- Flavored milk drink: Shake together ½ cup cold milk and ½ cup orange,
prune or apple juice. Pour into chilled glass. Makes 1 serving. Flavored milk
also can be made with ½ cup unsweetened pineapple or grape juice and ½ cup
cold milk.
- For easy reference, tape the measurements and directions to the lids of
containers of coffee, tea or rice.
- For hot beverages, use freshy drawn cold water and boil as little as
possible.
- Make your Swiss Mocha drink by using 1 teaspoon instant coffee and 1
teaspoon hot cocoa mix. It's delicious.
I think I will have to come and read these more closely this weekend. Perhaps even print it out!
Thanks, Sue. I will posting more hints in other areas of 'In the Kitchen'.
Thanks Etta Sue I like this idea of posting your hints. Great going Sister.
Right...we all can use short cuts in our hustle bustle lives.