Blackberry Turkey Meatballs

Blackberry Turkey Meatballs  Makes about 18 meatballs [ printable recipe ] Ingredients: For blackberry barbecue sauce: 12 ounces (about 4 cu...

Easy Salami Stuffed Jalapeno Peppers

Easy Stuffed Jalapeno Peppers [ printable recipe ] Serves 4-6 Ingredients 10 large jalapeno peppers 4 ounces cream cheese 6 ounces Monterey ...

Baked Chicken Taquitos

Baked ChickenTaquitos Makes 20 taquitos [ printable recipe ] Ingredients: 3 cups cooked shredded (or chopped) chicken – about 2 large breast...

Beer Cheese Spread

BeerCheese Spread Makes about 2 cups [ printable recipe ] Ingredients: 8 oz cream cheese 2 tablespoons butter, softened 2 teaspoons Dijon mu...

Red Wine Blue Cheese Ball

Red Wine Blue Cheese Ball Makes one 1-pound cheese ball [ printable recipe ] Ingredients: 1 cup red wine 1 medium shallot, minced 4 tablespo...

Baked Brie with Candied Walnuts and Caramelized Onions

My mom typically serves various versions of baked brie around the holidays, so I essentially grew up eating it. It's a classic appetizer...

Canned Roasted Red Pepper Spread

Roasted Red Pepper Spread adapted from  Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving  (edited by Judy Kingry and Lauren Devine) makes about 9 8 oun...

Grilled Eggplant with Buttery Herbed Breadcrumbs

Grilled Eggplant with Buttery Herbed Breadcrumbs [ printable recipe ] 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon lemon zest 1 small clove garlic, ...

Wonton Crisps Four Ways

Wonton Crisps Serves: 4 [ printable recipe ] Ingredients: 24 wonton wrappers, sliced in half diagonally to form triangles 2 tablespoons sal...

Sweet and Spicy Butter Roasted Chickpeas

Sweet and Spicy ButterRoasted Chickpeas Makes about 1 ½ cups, but this recipe can be easily doubled or tripled [printable recipe ] Ingredien...

Truffle Butter Popcorn with Parmesan and Rosemary

Truffle Butter Popcorn with Parmesan and Rosemary Servings: 4 [ printable recipe ] Ingredients 1/3 cup popping corn 3 tablespoons coconut oi...

Crispy Wonton Cup Appetizers

Crispy Wonton Cups [ printable recipe ] 24 wonton wrappers Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Nestle one wonton wrapper into each of the 12 cup...

Sour Cherry Chutney with Rosemary

Sour Cherry Chutney with Rosemary   [ printable recipe ] 2 cups unsweetened dried Cherryland’s Best Door County sour cherries (if using swee...

Ricotta Bruschetta (with Homemade Ricotta)

It's going to be really, really hard for me to buy a tub of Ricotta cheese at Publix ever again. Admittedly, I am a snob about buying st...

Strawberry Salsa

Strawberry Salsa ( printable recipe ) Makes about 1 1/2 cups 1 cup chopped strawberries 3 T chopped scallions 1 jalapeno pepper, minced 2 T ...

Wisconsin Cranberry Salsa

Wisconsin Cranberry Salsa 1 12 oz bag fresh or frozen cranberries 1 naval orange (preferably organic), stem ends removed ½ cup sugar OR  1/...

Hummus, Revisited

Back in May, I attempted homemade hummus for the first time. As I mentioned , the bones were there, but the recipe was just terrible. The ja...

Jalapeno Hummus and Classic Hummus

Lord. Yeesh. This is some spicy stuff. You'd think I'd have guessed that, given that Josh found the recipe on jalapenomadness.com, b...

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bacon Panini

Peanut butter and chocolate pair up with bacon in this fun little panino.  You can substitute chocolate chips for the Tagalon cookies if you...

Potstickers

These are so much fun to make, monotony and initial complexity aside. We wonder now why we ever paid up to $9 for a 20-count box of the litt...