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Title: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:07pm 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 8) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Margi on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:13pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by alchemy on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:14pm if you grab bratwurst in your hand is it considered finger food? |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by alienspacebabe on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:16pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by thomas on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:16pm on 10/18/06 at 15:13:24, Margi wrote:
I used to love you, now I think you may be in danger of being lynched if I ever hear of you doing this again. >:( ;) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Redd715 on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:18pm 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 2 Tbs. Franks Hot Sauce 1 tsp. cayan red pepper (optional for those who like it spicier) 2 tsp. garlic salt 1 tsp black pepper melt butter, add rest of the ingredients and blend well. Stir well before each basting. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by catlind on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:21pm 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 :) Cat |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Peppermint on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:21pm 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 ;;D Love, Pep |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Margi on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:23pm on 10/18/06 at 15:16:53, thomas 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:23pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Peppermint on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:29pm on 10/18/06 at 15:23:42, LadyElaine1 wrote:
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. Work smart not hard ;;D |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by thomas on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:31pm on 10/18/06 at 15:23:21, Margi wrote:
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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by catlind on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:33pm 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. Cat damn...I'm hungry now! |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:33pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Daddys_Devil on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:35pm 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. Hope all goes well. Always, Felicia 8) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:35pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by catlind on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:36pm Thomas, you'll have to bring Gena and come over to my house for some homemade Honey Garlic Ribs ;) Cat |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by thomas on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:38pm on 10/18/06 at 15:36:18, catlind wrote:
Do you boil 'em? ;) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Margi on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:39pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Margi on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:41pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:43pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Margi on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:46pm pressure cookers scare the hell out of me!!! :o 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:53pm 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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Melissa on Oct 18th, 2006, 3:57pm 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). Dammit, I'm hungry. :( |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:04pm on 10/18/06 at 15:53:54, LadyElaine1 wrote:
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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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:05pm Sloppy joes is a good one for the Nascar. You can have a pot full of meat and just have people full thier own buns. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:06pm Speaking of food I got to run and fix dinner for my bunch it won't be long before they get here. Keep posting I will be printing this tread out and putting in my recipe book. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Margi on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:07pm on 10/18/06 at 15:57:24, Melissa wrote:
Vegetable Thin Crackers are better. I think we should all start a catering service. I think we could make some big bucks here!! |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by seasonalboomer on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:08pm here's a a slightly odd approach to the problem from New Orleans..... maybe not finger food but.... http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tpupdates/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tpupdates/archives/2006_10_18.html#195997 :-X |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:10pm eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Peppermint on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:10pm on 10/18/06 at 16:04:56, Tiannia wrote:
Tia... I need to re-purchase a slow cooker, now that my daughter is a latch-key kid. I'm keeping your recipe!! Sounds like simple but tasty dinners without a lot of fear of her burning down the house. She uses the stove but still... she's home alone for long enough 'til I get there for a number of things to happen. Thanks - I'll have to look around for more of those kinds of recipes. (these are great for winter, thank goodness its getting cold now). sorry- back to the regularly scheduled program. :P |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 18th, 2006, 4:24pm I cheat and put a frozen roast in with the broth and spices and put it on low. When I get home form work it is done and ready to eat. YUMMMY |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Linda_Howell on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:03pm Thanks Scott. I was hungry after reading everyones recipes til I got to your link. I may never eat again. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by alchemy on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:16pm Finger Food List 1, trip to grocery store 1, box of cheese it's open box pour some in bowl, you being the host can eat from the box. if anyone complains turn box around so get your own box is visable |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by catlind on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:17pm OH Margi!!! Wouldyou?? I will send you the money! Mom is always forgetting to put together a care package for me. Mast gave me the link to a site a couple of years ago for a place that sells Canadian fare online, but I've always been hesitant to use something like that. Man, I would LOVE to have the curds and gravy mix for poutine!! Clark had never heard of it until he started going out with me hehe. He's now completely addicted. And some swiss chalet dipping sauce?? I must have died and gone to Canadian heavan! I've had Kokanee before, it's damn good! Let me know what info you need and how much it is and I"ll send you the money for everything! Thomas, I cannot tell you how we do our ribs...it's a family secret ;) However I can assure you that any rib snob or afficianado will thoroughly enjoy my ribs. Elaine, I'm working on getting your recipes typed up and emailed to you. I wonder what happened to all the recipes we gathered for the OUCH cookbook. I have tons of slow cooker recipes. I'd be happy to post some of the recipes for slow cookers if people are interested. I'll try to track down the document that had all the recipes submitted for the OUCH cookbook a couple years back. Cat |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LeLimey on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:24pm I'd love some slow cooker recipes Cat, its my favourite toy in the whole world! |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:27pm An OUCH Cook book??? Can we find it or do it again? |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by alchemy on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:27pm on 10/18/06 at 18:24:25, LeLimey wrote:
not saying that Kath is not a good cook but she got a book like that and thought it meant for people who were slow |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LeLimey on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:36pm y o u m e a n s h e b o u g h t i t f o r y o u d u m m y ? ? ? ! ;;D |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by alchemy on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:39pm oh that explains it. i get confused |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Daddys_Devil on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:45pm on 10/18/06 at 18:27:28, Tiannia wrote:
I like it! I love to cook. Mom says I take after Daddy. ;;D Lets make it happen! Anyone got any ideas? We could make it a link so people could just print the ones they want off. I've got an awsome PB cookie recipe that I would love for you guys to try. Always, Felicia 8) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by maffumatt on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:47pm on 10/18/06 at 18:36:05, LeLimey wrote:
She wrote slow because she knows you don't read so good..... |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LeLimey on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:47pm Id love to try your recipe Felicia, nothing makes friends seem closer than sharing things like this :) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Woobie on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:56pm HEY THOMAS You're CRACKING ME UP about your ribs. ;;D Wanna know how Ramon does it??? And his ribs KICK ASS... and don't tell him i posted this...>LOL [smiley=laugh.gif] he takes a 2 liter of Dr Pepper and boils them in it .... then - he takes them to the grill............ then he adds some Dr Pepper to the BBQ sauce... and bastes it on the grill....... and they are GOOD. you can also do it with Pepsi. but Dr Pepper is better. woobs :-* |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Daddys_Devil on Oct 18th, 2006, 6:57pm All right, Helen, but I warn you: Its really hard to make. But here's the recipe anyways. 1 cup of PB 1 egg 1 cup of suger 1 tsp. of baking soda Mix all the ingredients. Lightly grease your cookie sheet. Roll into marble sized balls. Then flatten with a fork. Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes. So hard isn't it? But seriously guys, can we make it happen? I'd be great to see some different foods to try. I really would like to see some of the more forein dishes. Always, Felicia 8) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 18th, 2006, 8:19pm Felicia I am eatting Monkey Bread, and its great! There goes my husbands diet ;;D |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Daddys_Devil on Oct 18th, 2006, 8:27pm Glad you like it hun. But back on topic. Are we going to try anything for this cookbook? I need to know! Please let me know! Always, Felicia 8) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Linda_Howell on Oct 18th, 2006, 9:15pm For the life of me I cannot remember who started that cook-book idea or what happened to it, but I do know that lots and lots of people here contributed to it, including me. Anyone here know? It was several years ago & I believe it was going to be done as a fund-raiser for OUCH. Barb., DonnaH, Margi, Elaine? The more I think about it...I think the reason the idea was scrapped was because it was cost-prohibitive due to publishing/putting it together costs. If it could be done in a very inexpensive way, kind of like a newsletter format and stapled together...it sounds like a good idea to me. Everyone sends in their recipes to one person , they print them off, staples them together and puts them on the OUCH store for a certain price. This could work. And everytime I've said something like this...guess who gets the job? lol |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Jonny on Oct 18th, 2006, 9:38pm Fried midget fingers, ask Chewy how to obtain them ;;D |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by maffumatt on Oct 18th, 2006, 9:45pm on 10/18/06 at 21:38:43, Jonny wrote:
I thought Jeff had the midget this week, isn't Chewys week next? |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Jonny on Oct 18th, 2006, 9:51pm on 10/18/06 at 21:45:11, maffumatt wrote:
Its a battle, Bro......Chewy vs JeffB for the latest midget! Man, we can get a movie out of this.....LMAO ;;D |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by ClusterChuck on Oct 18th, 2006, 10:04pm on 10/18/06 at 15:57:24, Melissa wrote:
My seafood dip is a little different. One can of baby shrimp (comes in a can like tuna, and is usually sold right next to the tuna), one jar of horseradish, and enough ketchup (how DO you spell that?) to add flavor and color. Then use your favorite cracker !!! VERY easy to make, and VERY good! ALSO, for the adults, one of my FAVORITE things to munch on is spiked marachino (how DO you spell that?) cherries! Buy the LARGE jar of cherries, pour the liquid out, into a container, then fill the jar with Bicardi's 151 rum. Pour enough of the juice back into the jar to add the color. Seal the jar and let it sit at least a week. (The longer the better) I serve these at house parties, or camping trips, or where ever. I had one jar that got lost in the back of the liquor cabinet for about three years. They were STILL EXCELLENT!! And this is from a guy that doesn't like rum! Party ON!!! Chuck |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Woobie on Oct 18th, 2006, 10:11pm on 10/18/06 at 21:15:35, Linda_Howell wrote:
It was Roxy that was collecting the recipes and then I think she got too busy with her job and all that to do anything. ... or maybe it was cost - I dont know. I know that's where I sent my recipes..... smooches woobs |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by nani on Oct 18th, 2006, 10:33pm A cookbook is a great idea!! Why not burn it to CD's? Cheap, and easy to mail. Then everyone could print their own, or not. I'm sure glad I ate dinner before I read this... I'd be really hungry otherwise. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Cathi04 on Oct 18th, 2006, 11:25pm Hello, Lady E, I have one that always seems to be a hit. We do stuffed potatoes.......... Bake big ole bakers till they are done. Cool a bit, then cut in half, scoop out the potato, into a big bowl, preserving the skins. Add butter, Worchestershire sauce, sour cream, salt & pepper to taste. Toss in small chunks of BBQ'd steak, or you can use cubed ham..then add cheese. Scoop filling back into potato skins. Wrap them in alum foil till it's time for dinner, then, throw em on the bbq, or in the oven till piping hot. You can make these as hor d'ouevres as well, with new potatoes. Also, any fruit you enjoy tastes wonderful if you dip it in this: 1 cup GOOD sour cream 2T sugar 1t vanilla Stir together, place in bowl beside fruit. Of course, I'm thinking the pleasure is not in the food as much as in the cameraderie and the races! Feed em anything-serve with laughter.it'll be great! Have fun, E! Cathi ;;D |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by vietvet2tours on Oct 18th, 2006, 11:37pm cheeseburgers |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by catlind on Oct 19th, 2006, 12:21am on 10/18/06 at 21:15:35, Linda_Howell wrote:
Linda I don't know who did it several years ago, but it's probably 3 years ago now, maybe 4 that Roxy, Mast and I were working a cookbook for OUCH. It was at the same time we were trying to get the pet page up for all the CHers pets. The cost to publish was very cost prohibitive. Tracey has been doing a cookbook for her family for many years and she was going to do ours. At the time, there was a problem with the way the files were sent to her (or something like that) and it was taking forever to get the recipes reformatted. I don't know if she still has the file or not, I'm going to talk to her tomorrow and see if she still has it. If we don't have the file from back then, I am more than happy to start up a new one. I have a recipe program that will make it easy to print and publish. I think it could be a great way to raise money for OUCH as well as to put it out there in the hospital gift stores, sell to your neuro's office or leave them in the neuros and docs offices they way you see many books left, you know the guy who comes in and drops off 5-10 books with an order form at different offices? I think we could do that easily with an OUCH cookbook. I am still scouring through my old back ups of the 2 different (or maybe it's 3 now) computers that I've had since we were working on it. If I have the file then that will just be a great beginning. In the interim, I will start a new thread and ask Steph or DJ to sticky it and start collecting recipes to get this going again. Anyone who is willing to help with this please let me know. Not sure if it will be easier to PM me or email me right now, my computer did a POP, Bang, fizzle and then went to black the other day hehe. Elaine still working on your recipes for this weekend. You'll have them Thurs for sure :) Okay, off to start a new thread :) Cat |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tata on Oct 19th, 2006, 12:41am Make yourself a foil bag or buy the ones they sell in the store--cut up a mess of potatoes and throw them in the bag---add butter, add a few rings of onion, add a LOT of Lowry's seasoned salt and some pepper, add some more butter, seal up the bag, put them on the grill and forget them for about an hour. Easy to get ready ahead of time and throw the butter in when it's time to cook. Drunken chicken isn't technically finger food, but it's easy. Buy a whole chicken that will fit under your grill lid. Clean him out and rub w/ your favorite meat rub, or just do what I do and rub him w/ garlic, basil, sea salt, pepper--pretty much whatever I can find in the cupboard. Open a can of beer and put the can on the grill and sit the chicken right down over and around the beer can. Grill on Med, Med-high until the chicken falls over a little bit, or about an hour. This is the best chicken, so make 2 if you've got a crowd. I'll make this in the winter too because it reminds me of summer nights up on our boat. You can do the same thing using a bundt cake pan in the oven, or on the grill if you only have bottled beer--it'll catch the drippings in the oven-- just dump the beer into the pan. A good cheese ball that's easy is a few packages of softened cream cheese, chives, a couple packages of that cheap chipped beef and Accent seasoning. Everything is just added to taste, but be careful w/the Accent--a little goes a long way. I use scissors to cut the chives and the beef into small peices. Mix everything into the cream cheese and form into a ball. I think you're supposed to reserve some of the beef pieces to coat the entire ball in, but I never get that far before everyone starts digging in. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Carl_D on Oct 19th, 2006, 3:11am Okay, I'm trying to pretend I didn't hear 'midget fingers' somewhere in there. :o Here's a goodie: You need: bagels hamburgers Worschesire sauce Cayenne pepper pepper jack cheese baby swiss cheese pepperoncini rings (pickled) Toast the bagel. Then put on a paper plate and put a piece of pepper jack cheese on one half, and a piece of baby swiss on the other half. If you do this straight out of the toaster, the cheese will melt nicely without any nuking invovled. Cook your hamburger patty via skillet or grill. Season with worchesire sauce and lightly sprinkle cayenne pepper. Once it is fully cooked, add a few pepperoncini rings to it and place between cheesed bagels. Might not be considered a 'finger food' but it is damned good! I've not had one in quite awhile and wish I had bagels and burgers right now at 2am. LOL. Way too late to eat for me. Peace, Carl PS - The OUCH cook book is a great idea. I might even be able to contribute a recipe or two. I do come from a family of cooks, and my grandma and mom were two of the best. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by clusterwife on Oct 19th, 2006, 10:17am Deep-fried Spam balls! Sounds bad, but it's easy, cheap, good protein, and different! If it was good enough for our soldiers, I'm all for it! Now, if I could only convince my family. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LeLimey on Oct 19th, 2006, 10:35am hmm.. depends.. what did the spam die of?! ;) |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Tiannia on Oct 19th, 2006, 10:47am I like he idea of putting them on CD. That would really cut back on the cost for printing them up and such. And you can format them so that people can not copy them but only print from them. That way people can order them and they can be mailed out easily and cheaply. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Peppermint on Oct 19th, 2006, 11:49am OR - Maybe it can go on a separate page of the OUCH website, with a password needed. To get your password, you make a minimum donation towards the org. Haven't asked yet if this will work or if it can be done, but what the mind can conceive... I would think its less cost-prohibitive. Then you can download or print out your favorite. Whatcha think? |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 19th, 2006, 5:32pm The cook books a great idea. I will buy one! That is one project I never attempted a cook book! I took all the recipes and put them in word and printed them out, they are now in my cook book. Thanks for the help. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by echo on Oct 19th, 2006, 5:41pm Didn't read everything so this may be a repeat. Frog Eyes Small whole baby pickles, about the size of a dime. Cream Cheeze Thin slice Ham deli meat Place out a square of deli meat, cover in 1/4" of cream cheeze, add pickle to one end and roll. Cut into 1/2" thick slices. When presented on a platter they look like little eye's. Taste great. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 19th, 2006, 5:45pm Thank ya echo! I just printed that one out, thats what I am looking for fast and easy and good ! Prefect! |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by echo on Oct 19th, 2006, 5:54pm Here's another. Hope not a repeat. cocktail weiners (those short little ones) think they're called lil smokies. Large jar of coctail sauce Large jar of grape jelly place 1/2 of each in a small crock pot and warm and add to prefered taste. Serve by jabbing them with a tooth pick. Sounds weird but tastes good. I usually put 4 to 5 bags of the weinies in there. |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by Charlie on Oct 19th, 2006, 7:54pm Quote:
Sanity raises its lovely head. Don't want to be cooking the Frasier Crane family. For me, if it ain't thawable or unrwappable, it doesn't work. Good luck Elaine.... http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/GLOM.gif Charlie |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by imnotbub on Oct 20th, 2006, 2:12pm I don't like SPAM................ but fingers are good! Steve |
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Title: Re: Finger food ideas needed! Post by LadyElaine1 on Oct 23rd, 2006, 1:39pm The week end went great. I got up 5:00 am Saturday morning and started vegable soup in the crock pot. Went to the race track dropped off the camper. Then ran to the store to buy grocerys. Then home. Heather and her new boyfriend got here about 15 minutes later. I fixed corn bread and salad and thats what we ate on all evening. It must of been good, there was nothing left. I fixed spinach dip and served chips and vegables plater and we watched home vidios till 1 in the moring. Then the next moring Buddy made Pancakes and sausage and off they went back to FL. From 1-10 we gave the boyfriend a 5. I figure I would be safe with 50 50 odds there. ;;D They will return Thanksgiving. Now I am going through all recipes to see what I can get for the Race. This week will be hell. Today making list of things to do. Tomorrow I take JD to spend the day with my Mom, He has the week off for Fall break. Then I am going to Devenys office to organize her office, that will take all day. Then I am will pick JD up beat rush hour traffic home and fix dinner. Wenesday, will make chile, will pack our cloths for the race. Get sheets blankes and things ready, and pack the truck. Then make our dinner. Thursday, Deveny and I will get up and we will go set the camper up. Then Deveny and JD will come home for a long week end without us (they will have a ball). Then I am going to my Moms help her make the rost beef sams, Mom makes the best rost beef. I pack each guy 2 rost beef sams and potato chips for up in the stands they love them. Then Buddy will met me there and take a shower. We will eat dinner at Moms. Then on the way to the race track we will stop and buy what other foods we need and odds and ends. We should be in our camper around 8 PM. We will be there till Monday Morning. Wish us luck! |
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