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Baked Garlic | Blue Cheese Stuffed Baby Portabellas | Crab Dip | Glazed Brie | Hot Vidalia Onion Dip
Baked Garlic
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Appetizers Only (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 2 | large | garlic, whole head |
| 1 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
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Cut just the very top off the garlic; pour oil over garlic. Salt and pepper to taste. Wrap garlic in aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes, until soft. Remove from foil, and plate. Serve with toast points, warm, crunchy french bread or crackers.
Blue Cheese Stuffed Baby Portabellas
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Appetizers Only (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 0.5 | lb | mushrooms, baby portabella |
| 2 | Tb | oil, olive |
| 4 | oz | cheese, blue |
| 1 | tsp | pepper, fresh cracked |
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Remove stems from mushrooms, wipe with damp cloth to clean. Brush with oil, stuff with blue cheese, sprinkle with pepper. Place on baking sheet, bake at 325 degrees for 3-5 minutes until mushrooms are tender.
Crab Dip
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 10 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Appetizers Only (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 3 | Tb | butter, unsalted |
| 2 | medium | shallots, sliced |
| 0.75 | tsp | pepper, fresh ground |
| 0.75 | tsp | old bay seasoning |
| 1.5 | tsp | mustard, dried |
| 0.75 | cup | cream, half and half |
| 8 | oz | cream cheese |
| 4 | oz | cheese, white cheddar |
| 3 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
| 2 | tsp | Worcestershire sauce, white |
| 10 | oz | crab, white lump |
| 1 | Tb | parsley, flat leaf |
| 0.5 | tsp | paprika, sweet |
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Melt butter in a pan, add shallots and cook until soft, about 2 minutes. Stir in pepper, Old Bay, and dry mustard. Add half and half, simmer. Slowly whisk in cream cheese and cheddar. Remove from heat when well mixed. Add lemon juice, Worcestershire and continue to stir. Add crab and parsley, gently stir.
Pour into an ovenproof pan; sprinkle Panko breadcrumbs on top, sprinkle paprika on top. Bake for 18-24 minutes until light brown.
Serve on crackers or toast points
Glazed Brie
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 10 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Appetizers Only (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 0.25 | cup | sugar, brown |
| 0.25 | cup | pecans, halved |
| 1 | Tb | brandy |
| 1 | lb | cheese, brie |
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Mix together sugar, chopped pecans, and brandy. Chill up to one week. Place whole round of Brie cheese onto 9-inch pie plate. Bake at 450 degrees for 5 minutes or until slightly softened. Sprinkle sugar mixture on top. Bake two to three minutes until sugar is melted and cheese is heated through, but not melted. Serve with apple or pear wedges, grapes, and crackers.
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Hot Vidalia Onion Dip
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Appetizers Only (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 2 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 3 | medium | onion, vidalia |
| 2 | cup | cheese, Swiss shredded |
| 8 | oz | water chestnuts |
| 0.25 | cup | wine, dry white |
| 0.5 | tsp | garlic, minced |
| 0.5 | tsp | hot sauce to taste |
| 1 | pinch | salt, table |
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Heat oven to 375 degrees. Sauté three chopped Vidalia onions in butter. Add remaining ingredients, and bake in a small casserole dish for 25 minutes. Serve with tortilla chips or crackers.
