primitive fingering food

[franksolich]

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NRaleighLiberal (20,103 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

So we are having a very small pre-Christmas gathering Sat night. Ideas for finger foods (easy?)

A few definite things to be made - Hummus with various veggies

Pesto pizza bites (we slather a Boboli with parmesan, pesto and Mozarella - bake, then cut into bite size pieces)

maybe cheddar cheese straws

other or better ideas?

for sweet things, probably just a mix of the Christmas cookies we are baking.

franksolich suggests oignons releves de Cheddar.

pinto (91,358 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

1. Sliced pears or apples, topped with a cheese slice? Served like individual hors d'ouvres - a slice of fruit, a slice of cheese on top. Really simple finger snacks. I made some for a pot luck and they went well.

Lugnut (7,283 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

2. Cream Cheese rollups

You can use various fillings in a rolled up tortilla that's chilled then sliced into bite-size pieces and served.

Search google to find recipes for a bunch of them. They're very good and easy to make.

pinto (91,358 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

3. I like these a lot. Cream cheese, chives, diced olives. Rolled tight in a tortilla and chilled.

blaze (1,782 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

9. My favorite version of these is just cream cheese and diced, pickled jalapenos!!

grasswire (32,423 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

4. something Mexican too

And my constant go-to, always delicious, always disappears:

Hasty Hots

mayo
grated parm
minced green onions
party rye bread

mix first three ingredients
spread on slices of party rye, put on baking sheet
as needed, broil until bubbly and lightly browned

Proportions: I'd say about 1 1/2 cup of mayo, one bunch of onions, and a cup of parm. YMMV

So.....I can see it now.

"grasswire's pie and jam and hasty hots."

Denninmi (1,641 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

5. Easy is relative.

I made miniature individual quiches last year at New Years when we had a group of people over for a mid-afternoon gathering. I made them in miniature sized muffin tins. Instead of trying to make a pastry crust, I put a thin layer of buttered, fairly finely crushed cracker crumbs in the bottom as crust. I made two kinds, broccoli, ham, and cheddar, and seafood with shrimp, crab, peas, dill and Monterrey Jack cheese. They were a big hit, and I personally find quiche a really easy thing to make, as long as I don't have to make a crust (which I'm not good at).

Tesha (18,995 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

8. Pecan Pie...

no, really!

My daughter had made a pie for Thanksgiving that we didn't eat, so I set it in the freezer for about half an hour then cut it into little diamonds and plated it for a pre-wedding party the following day - gone... people asking for the recipe... who would have thought?

housewolf (7,007 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

10. I always made something we called "Bread Dip"

It's a round loaf of bread hollowed out. Then you fill it with a mixture of cream cheese, pastrami or pepper beef (which I haven't even seen in years!), green onions, and a few spices, maybe a little bit of mayonnaise. So you bake the filled loaf at a low temp for about an hour. You cut up the "innards" that you cut out into squares and put them in the oven the last 10-15 minutes or so to dry them a little and make them a bit crunchy. Serve with the bread and a selection of veggies for dipping.

MMMMMM, so good I can almost taste it now.

Edited to ad:
'Course people ate differently then, this was before the low-fat movement. It might work with low-fat cream cheese, I don't know. And maybe peppered turkey, or turkey pastrami.

I dunno.

I'd just put out potato chips and dip.

[Chris_]

Hummus is nasty, tasteless stuff.

[Ballygrl]

We're doing Christmas Dinner and there's going to be like 9 of us, for an appetizer I'm just going to do cheese and crackers and potato chips and vegetable dip.

[Chris_]

A crock pot of cheese dip is essential.

[BEG]

Lugnut (7,283 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

2. Cream Cheese rollups

You can use various fillings in a rolled up tortilla that's chilled then sliced into bite-size pieces and served.

Search google to find recipes for a bunch of them. They're very good and easy to make.

Only good option given. I'll make it easy for you DUmmies.

Buy flour tortillas and chive cream cheese (Philadelphia brand in the tub).  Spread the cream cheese (let soften) on the tortilla (not too thick), roll up, wrap in plastic wrap individually then chill for a few hours (or over night). Cut off both ends because they aren't worth saving, you could cut off both sides of the tortilla before you put the cream cheese on.  Slice into about 1/4" - 1/2" slices. Serve with non-organic salsa. Thank me later.

[Ballygrl]

A crock pot of cheese dip is essential.

I'm cooking enough stuff LOL, I don't want to make that too.

[Ballygrl]

You can make a nice ball with cream cheese, take 1 or two bricks of cream cheese and add olives with pimento, mix it up, roll it into a ball, refrigerate for a few hours, and that's it, it's awesome.

[Chris_]

Cream cheese is versatile.  I saw someone on TV mix cream cheese with strawberry jelly and sugar and make a brownie topping with it the other day.  It looked good but I don't normally make brownies.

[JohnnyReb]

Bottom line DUmmie reality...squirt cheese and the cheapest saltines you can buy.

[diesel driver]

Ham biscuits, cheese and crackers, summer sausage and Town House crackers, assorted veggies with ranch dressing dip.  Nothing hard, nothing complicated.

Life is as simple or as complicated as you make it.  I believe in the "K I S S" principle.

Keep
It
Simple
STUPID

[franksolich]

Hummus is nasty, tasteless stuff.

I know it's the wrong word, but still, whenever I see "hummus," I think of those plastic bags of garden fertilizer stacked on pallets outside of farm-supply stores around here in spring.

[JohnnyReb]

I know it's the wrong word, but still, whenever I see "hummus," I think of those plastic bags of garden fertilizer stacked on pallets outside of farm-supply stores around here in spring.

I would guess that they both taste about the same.

[NHSparky]

Have these dipshits never heard of going down the frozen aisle at BJ's, Sam's Club, or Costco?

Buy shit.  Place on baking sheets.  Place into preheated oven.  Wait directed amount of time.  Remove.  Plate. Serve.

Jesus, everything's a ****ing productions with these clowns.

[vesta111]

Have these dipshits never heard of going down the frozen aisle at BJ's, Sam's Club, or Costco?

Buy shit.  Place on baking sheets.  Place into preheated oven.  Wait directed amount of time.  Remove.  Plate. Serve.

Jesus, everything's a ****ing productions with these clowns.

Crackers. Salteens, Ritz, or whatever.

Place a small thin sliver of cheese, your choice on cracker, a dab of smooth peanut butter, top with sweet pickles or
 or sour , olive of your choice.   Some put a thin peperoni slice some where in the mix. 

Was served this at a company party and ate so many I was not hungry for the dinner.

My favorite , take dates or figs dried, fill with peanut butter, roll in confectionery sugar, amazing.   Recipe comes from the 1910 cook book for the tea specials served in Boston at the tea gardens back in the good old days.
 
In today's world one can make wallnut or almond butter for those allergic to peanuts.   Any one wonder why peanut allergy was rare before the 1980's ?

Oh yes celery spears filled with cream cheese, with or without chives, small tomatoes carved out with mayo and basil.  Yummy who wants to eat dinner after all the finger food.

[GOBUCKS]

grasswire (32,423 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail

4. something Mexican too

And my constant go-to, always delicious, always disappears:

Hasty Hots

If I didn't hate DUmpmonkeys so much, I'd feel a tiny twinge of compassion for poor, addled grasswire.

Since she was tossed out of that former friend's bonus room, you know she's either living in a little Dutch barn in someone's backyard, or camping in that abandoned bodega that was supposed to be the pie shop. All bundled up, toddling around town, muttering, pulling that little red wagon...not a happy situation.

It's pretty sad. But I hate DUmpmonkeys.

[Ballygrl]

Bottom line DUmmie reality...squirt cheese and the cheapest saltines you can buy.

That can cheese is soooooooooooo good, I haven't had it in so long but I might just buy it and put it on Aldi's brand of Ritz Crackers.

[Skul]

Finger food=can of cold beer.
If I can get my fingers around it, it's food.

[diesel driver]

Finger food=can of cold beer.
If I can get my fingers around it, it's food.

It's all finger food to the DUmmies.

We can't have them handling sharp or pointed utensils, can we.   

[Karin]

frozen aisle at BJ's, Sam's Club, or Costco?

Buy shit.  Place on baking sheets.  Place into preheated oven.  Wait directed amount of time.  Remove.  Plate. Serve.

  Sparky makes a good point.  Food companies are doing some great things in the appetizer dept; there are some new things out this year by Schwans.  Great idea, especially if you have someone, like a MIL or new girlfriend/boyfriend, for which saltines and cheez whiz will not do. 

Of course, NRaleighLiberal has to starve everyone out.  They'll leave her house and head straight for the BBQ joint; nearly fainting on the way. 

[BattleHymn]

I used to hate cream cheese, but now I enjoy it.  How tastes change.  My grandma used to make an awesome cream cheese log.  It doesn't take maybe ten or so minutes to make, either:

8 oz cream cheese

2 oz dried beef (armour slices in a can)

7 green onions

1 Tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce 

1/2 Tablespoon of Accent seasoning or salt   

Chop up and blend the above ingredients, then roll the log in chopped walnuts.  Serve with a butter knife and Ritz crackers.  I've never had to take any of it home, wherever I've served it.   

[BattleHymn]

Of course, NRaleighLiberal has to starve everyone out.  They'll leave her house and head straight for the BBQ joint; nearly fainting on the way. 

Which primitive was it that served up the beans, (or wast it a peanut butter and jelly sandwich) to the person who came to their door asking for food? 

[Karin]

That would be OffWithTheirHeads.  It was a peanut butter sandwich (NO JELLY) and a glass of water (NO MILK).  Meanwhile, he was roasting a goose.  'Course, it never happened.  It was just a bouncy.  A funny one, though. 

[franksolich]

Which primitive was it that served up the beans, (or wast it a peanut butter and jelly sandwich) to the person who came to their door asking for food? 

In addition to Karin's comment above, which is the way I remember it too, it was the Treasonous Bastard primitive who fixed a pot of beans to take to the homeless shelter one time, at the same time she was preparing stuff like fricasse de poulet a l'Espagnole and petits rouleaux de poulet garnis and poulet cuit au four et releve de citron for herself.

Just boiled beans in water; didn't even add salt or anything.  Just boiled beans.

And then she griped because the homeless didn't chow down on it.

I tell you this because it's a small figment of "a primitive Christmas Carol," and some might not recall the back-story, and so here it is.

[Karin]

I forgot about the pot of boiled beans!     Oh they're just full of the milk of human kindness... she could at least have thrown an old shoe in there. 

[franksolich]

I forgot about the pot of boiled beans!     Oh they're just full of the milk of human kindness... she could at least have thrown an old shoe in there.

I can't find the campfire at the moment, but the way I recall it, she made such a big pot too, about five gallons of beans-and-water.

Earlier, she'd asked the cooking and baking primitives about the cheapest beans to buy, in bulk.