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Finger food ideas needed!
« on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:07pm » |
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This week end I am having some company, and next week end is the Nascar race we will be going to and camping.
I got two weeks I need to fix some Finger food and food for camping. I have read recipes off the net till my eyes are crossed.
You people like good food, I know that from the meet and greets and conventions. So I figure you are the best people to ask.
Help please before I go blind 
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #1 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:13pm » |
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you know what's really good for camping, E? Boil up some baby back ribs for about an hour and then marinate them in your favourite sauce. That way, you can throw them on the BBQ and they don't take that long because they're pre-cooked. We use low salt soy sauce as a marinade. It gives them a really different taste and takes a lot of fat out of the ribs.
Cut up fruit is good too, especially when you serve a dip (like strawberry yogurt). I use canteloupe, honeydew, pineapple and green grapes. You can also do shisk-ka-bobs of these fruits and put cheese cubes on the skewers.
Damn. Now I'm hungry! 
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #2 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:14pm » |
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if you grab bratwurst in your hand is it considered finger food?
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #3 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:16pm » |
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Well..... I was recently at a restaurant that served me an open-faced turkey sandwich and mashed potatoes, both covered with gravy... and no flatware. Does that then ount as finger food?
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #4 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:16pm » |
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on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:13pm, Margi wrote: Boil up some baby back ribs for about an hour
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« Reply #5 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:18pm » |
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Oven Roasted Buffalo Wings
Oven roast chicken wings @ 325 deg. , basting with sauce every 10 minutes till brown and done.
Buffalo baste:
1 stick butter or margarine
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melt butter, add rest of the ingredients and blend well. Stir well before each basting.
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #6 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:21pm » |
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Hey lady,
I do an open house for Christmas every year. It's nothing but finger food. How much work do you want to put into the food? What kinds of things are you looking for...desserts and sweets, crackers, cheese and cut meats like polish sausage, or do you want more entree type finger foods? Let me know what you are interested in and I'll provide you with a list of recipes.
Typically for the open house I serve: sausage rolls, cornish pasties, cocktail size sweet and sour meatballs, crackers, cheese, oysters and sliced meats like polish sausage and summer sausage, various kinds of tarts (butter tarts, pumpkin chiffon and holiday tarts), cheesecake squares, cut fruit and chocolate dip and caramel dip, cupcakes, cookies, shrimp rings, bacon wrapped scallops, sometimes have honey garlic ribs and honey garlic and hot wings, (both sweet and sour and honey garlic sauces are home made) usually have a marinated flank steak that is absolutely delicious and so tender it falls apart, a tortilla wrap - a tortilla spread with salsa and cream cheese and rolled up and sliced, pepperoni and cheese bread pockets, ummm lots and lots of stuff hehe.
Let me know what kinds of things you want and I"ll provide you with the recipes
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« Reply #7 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:21pm » |
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Elaine,
We love cut up veggies like carrot sticks, celery, zucchini to dip into ranch dressing (a really nice tangy thick tangy one) or any of your favorite dressings.
If you want appetizer-like stuff with little fuss and have a Costco or BJ's or any big bulk supermarket, there are lots: puff pastries with spinach filling, dogs in a blanket, shrimp wrapped with bacon, potato skins with cheddar cheese or sour cream... and you could make these yourself of course (depends how much time you have).
Or make large "wraps" filled with chicken, avocado, bacon and mayo.. and slice into thin lavash sandwiches for finger food.
Gotta go... crudite time 
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #8 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:23pm » |
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on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:16pm, thomas wrote:
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no. seriously. try it. I also peel the skin off the inside of the rib strip before boiling. Ribs so tender they fall off the bone. I'm tellin ya!!
Tell you what - you and Gena get on up here and let me cook you some, Thomas. THEN you can tell me it's a bad idea. Deal? I made these for DJ when he was here. As far as I know, he's still alive to talk about it.
p.s. Cat, you really should have that Cdn flag as your signature you know. mmmm, Cornish Pasties. With Bicks Pickles. Yum!! Made some just a couple weeks ago!!
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #9 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:23pm » |
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I am a little on th lazy side, the least work the better.
I am with you Margi I am hungery now to!
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« Reply #10 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:29pm » |
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That is why I LOVE my Costco and BJ's. When I'm out of time, they always save the day. Appetizers and fingers foods in a snap.
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #11 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:31pm » |
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on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:23pm, Margi wrote:
no. seriously. try it. I also peel the skin off the inside of the rib strip before boiling. Ribs so tender they fall off the bone. I'm tellin ya!!
Tell you what - you and Gena get on up here and let me cook you some, Thomas. THEN you can tell me it's a bad idea. Deal? I made these for DJ when he was here. As far as I know, he's still alive to talk about it.
p.s. Cat, you really should have that Cdn flag as your signature you know. mmmm, Cornish Pasties. With Bicks Pickles. Yum!! Made some just a couple weeks ago!!
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Trust me, I've had plenty of boiled ribs, I live in WI. I was raised in the heart of BBQ country, and you can literally be killed down there for that. You can ask my wife, I am a complete "rib-snob". I won't eat 'em if they are not bbq'd properly. Sorry, just one of my many character flaws.
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« Reply #12 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:33pm » |
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Oh yeah, forgot about the spinach dip and bread bowl hehe.
Damn Margi, I am soooooooooooooo missing my polski ogorki's!!! My Mom gets rather strange looks when she goes to the store and buys 5 jars of Bick's LOL.
I miss my Kraft PB (crunchy) and my Bick's pickles *sigh*
I've introduced many Americans to cornish pasties and real coffee and beer They now demand Tim's and Canadian every time we go home!
Elaine, most of the things listed above are very easy to do, the only thing that is time consuming is if you choose to make your own pastry.
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damn...I'm hungry now!
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« Reply #13 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:33pm » |
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Margi, I am going to be thinking about ribs all night now LOL
lol alchemy Not sure.
Cat you have a PM.
Every year we eat the same things at the Race, I fix chlie, another lady fixes gumbo, and we eat Hamburgers Hot dogs.
I want to do something different beside my chile.
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #14 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:35pm » |
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Monkey Bread. Easy to make, tastes great, and ready in a snap.
1 can of dinner rolls
4 tsp. of melted butter
1/2 cup of suger
2 tbs. cinnamon
Preheat to 375. Melt butter and mix in cinnamon and suger. Open and seperate biscuits then cut into butter. Coaat each peice in butter and suger mix. Place in an ungreased pie tin (leave in single layer). Place in oven and backe for 10 to 15 mins. Carefully remove from oven and serve.
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« Reply #15 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:35pm » |
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Pre boiling the pork ribs are the best way to make sure they are fully cooked and you dont have to burn the outside, in case your camp fire cook is not that good.
One of the best things that I ever made was a easy seafood wrap
Large Flour tortillas - you want them soft, so you might have to warm them up and place then under a warm towel deparding on your weather.
2 lbs of imitation crab meat - chucky cut or shredded.
1/2 cup miracle whip
Mix with the crab meat.
Celery sticks and carrot sticks that are julian sliced
Now lay out a tortilla, put in a large scoop of the crab and lay a new celery and carrot sticks inside and roll it up. Slice them into 1/4's
For camping - one of my favorite easy things to do is backed sweet potatoes.
Get some of the BIG yams / sweet potatoes. Cut into 1/3 or 1/4 depending on the size. You want the peaces about 2 inches thick. Put a little butter or margarine in the slices and put it back together. Roll tightly in foil and make sure it is seal.
Put these in the coals on your fire. and pretty much forget about them. 1 1/2 to 2 hours later you hae soft sweet carmelized sweet potatoes.
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Re: Finger food ideas needed!
« Reply #16 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:36pm » |
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Thomas, you'll have to bring Gena and come over to my house for some homemade Honey Garlic Ribs
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« Reply #17 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:38pm » |
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on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:36pm, catlind wrote:Thomas, you'll have to bring Gena and come over to my house for some homemade Honey Garlic Ribs
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Do you boil 'em?
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« Reply #18 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:39pm » |
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Cat, I can do you up a care package of Smarties, Cheezies, KD, Polskie O'Gorski's, Timmy's, KOKANEE (it's the beer out here!), Crispy Crunch and Dad's Goodie Rings if you want. You just say the word, girl. I can even send you the curds and gravy mix for Poutine!! And Swiss Chalet Dipping Sauce! And Bernard Callebaut chocolate.
Thomas, you ARE a rib snob. You're young yet though. Maybe your tastes will mature soon. (We also just spice them up with S & P and garlic and broil them after boiling them. Did that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up?)
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« Reply #19 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:41pm » |
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Here's a real easy one, TS -
canned crab meat
1 tub of softened cream cheese
mix it together, shape it into a ball and put it in the center of a plate. Cover it with seafood sauce and serve with crackers. It's wonderful.
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« Reply #20 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:43pm » |
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I boil my Ribs and my Chicken before BBQing! They are great and tender.
My favoret way to cook Ribs is in a pressure cooker, Now talk about tender Hmmm but I hate my pressure cooker LOL
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« Reply #21 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:46pm » |
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pressure cookers scare the hell out of me!!! 
The one my grandmother had blew up. I don't think they were ever able to fix that hole in the ceiling! LOL
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« Reply #22 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:53pm » |
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LOL Margi, I watch my pressure cooker from the living room, LOL I think the one I have is from my grandmother. But man you talking about tender meaTs cooked in there nothing like it.
Peppermints guess I am going to have to check out BJs. You know I figured it was likes Sams and never went there.
Felicia I think I will try that one tonight just for us ! I have everything to make that cool.
Tiannia I would have never thought about sweet potatoes, thats a good idea.
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« Reply #23 on: Oct 18th, 2006, 3:57pm » |
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When I go to parties, my favorites are the ham roll ups with cream cheese & a baby dill pickle in the middle, the seafood dip with baby shrimp (or crabmeat), cocktail sauce, cream cheese & Ritz crackers, the bread bowls with tortilla chips and artichoke dip, marinated chilled jumbo shrimp and last but not least, vegetable pizza (with the cream cheese).
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Easy and you dont have to watch it. My favorite way to cook.
I like slow cookers for tender meats. Throw a roast in with worchester sauce and some broth and it will fall apart. Great for sloppy joes.
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