Easy Party Appetizers

Appetizers are small bites, preceding a meal, designed to whet one’s appetite. When it comes to making small bites, puff pastry is your friend. Puff pastry also is also great for baking Brie en croute or making savory little turnovers. Another fun easy appetizers is wild mushroom quesadillas.

Serving soup in shot glasses is also good as an appetizer recipes. Simply make one batch of soup and then portion it into shot glasses. It is great served either hot or cold, depending on the soup and the time of year. Make sure to garnish the soup with a little something, either a small crouton, a micro green, or a sprinkle of fresh herbs.

Another idea is to make a loaf of crusty garlic bread, slice it into thin sticks and serve it with warm marinara sauce for dipping.

If you want to serve a cheese plate, roasted fruit it always a simple, sophisticated addition. Take a bunch of red grapes, remove them from the vine, and toss them with olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast them in a 350° oven for about 20 minutes. When in season, plums work well too.

Skewers are another way to serve fun, easy appetizers. If you have no time stop at the grocery store and purchase Italian parsley, olives, slices of Genoa salami, nuts, and cornichons or other pickled vegetables. Arrange them on a tray and garnish it with the fresh parsley – beautiful, fun and easy.