Showing posts with label appetizer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appetizer. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2009

Deviled Eggs


Easter's a coming Ladies!!! Well this year celebrating Easter will be different for me since i'll be celebrating here in Turkey. I'll be preparing some easter treats for the turkish students at the English School, this coming sunday, where i teach english :). So here's a recipe that i think most people know how to make and there are a ZILLION ways to make deviled eggs i know.
This recipe is a basic recipe and with some tabasco to add some ZING to it. So i'd like to share this recipe with you all cause i like the constancy of all the ingredients!
I hope to post more recipes this week cause i'm going to try and make Easter bread.

Ingredients:
1 dozen Eggs
2 tsp Dijon Mustard
1/3 cup Mayonaise
1 tbsp minced onion or shallot
1/4 tsp Tabasco
Salt and Pepper to taste
Dash of Paprika powder
Garlic (i love garlic so i usually add a few toes to the mix) (optional)
Parsley (optional)

Method:
  • Boil eggs (it takes usually 10-12 minutes), let eggs cool. Take the shell off the eggs, than cut eggs in half, and put the egg yolks into a bowl.
  • Add dijon mustard, mayonnaise, minced onion/shallot, tabasco, salt and pepper, and garlic to the egg yolks; mix with fork (it leaves it chunkier) so for a smoother consistency use a processor.
  • Put egg yolk mixture back into the egg halves.
  • Sprinkle some paprika powder over the eggs and i usually finish it off with a little parsley on top too, just for the presentation!
P.S. photo is not my photo, sorry but its just to give an idea of how the finished product should look! I'll make a photo when i am finished making them today!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Spinach and Artichoke Dip



So here's what i'll be making soon for my guests tonight for the Turkey-Spain Soccer match!!! I think this recipe is a great appetizer especially when there's a little alcohol involved :). As most of my recipes i've found this once again on www.allrecipes.com a few years ago.

Ingredients:
1 (8ounce) Cream Cheese
1/4 cup Mayo
1/4 cup Parmesan Cheese
1/4 cup Romano Cheese
1 clove Garlic, minced
1/2 tsp Dried Basil
1/4 tsp Garlic Salt
1/2 cup Spinach (frozen)
Salt & Pepper to taste
1/4 cup Mozzarella

Optional:
Sun-dried tomatoes (a few), chopped (this is my little added twist to the recipe)

Method:
  • Pre-heat oven to 175 degrees C (350 degrees F??) and grease pan/or casserole dish.
  • In a large bowl add cream cheese, mayo, parmasen cheese, romano cheese, garlic salt, dried basil, garlic, salt and pepper. (if you have a processer its better)...mix well.
  • Gently stir in artichoke, spinach, and mozzarella cheese. Put into greased pan/casserole dish.
  • Bake for 25 minutes or until the top is bubbling and brown!
Serve with chips or french baguette, I also even slice up some tortillas and fry them into chips (wonderful)....