Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Yummy appetizers

I made a couple of appetizers - broccoli tarts and artichoke spinach dip - to go along with the California Pizza Kitchen pizza and mini veggie eggrolls (both of the frozen variety) we had for New Year's Eve. Since it's been a long time since I shared any recipes and/or food pics, here ya go. :) Both things were delicious and I'd certainly make them again.


Broccoli Tarts
1 C. cooked broccoli
1/4 lb. Swiss cheese, shredded
3 green onions, minced
1 C. light cream
3 eggs, beaten
1 tsp. salt
1 stick soft butter
3 oz. soft cream cheese
1 C. flour

Chop broccoli. Mix the next 5 ingredients, then add broccoli.
Blend together the butter and cream cheese. Add flour and mix well.
Roll into balls the size of walnuts. Press into very lightly greased mini muffin tins to form shells. (I used regular sized muffin tins.) Fill shells to the top with broccoli mixture.
Bake at 400 degrees about 20 minutes until golden. Cool about 10 minutes, then turn out.
Serve hot.
Makes 2 1/2 dozen mini muffins or 1 dozen regular sized muffins.

Artichoke Spinach Dip
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach, partially thawed
1/2 (14 ounce) can artichoke hearts, drained and chopped
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1 (16 ounce) container sour cream
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese (optional)
1 can water chestnuts (optional - I added them to the recipe because I wanted something crunchy in the dip)
garlic salt/powder to taste

Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in the spinach and artichoke hearts. Cook until tender, about 5 minutes.
Mix cream cheese and sour cream into the spinach mixture. Stir in Parmesan cheese and garlic salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened, 10 to 15 minutes. Serve warm.
We had ours with cucumbers, baby carrots and Triscuits.

And, just for kicks, I thought I'd also share a pic of our backyard after we got those additional 5 or so inches of snow on 12/28. The trees were beautiful with all of that snow on them. Now that it's melted a bit on the trees and is only snowy in patches, it looks like they are growing cotton.

4 Comments:

At 1/03/2007 9:08 AM, Blogger BerryBird said...

Those broccoli tarts are gorgeous!

 
At 1/03/2007 9:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The broccoli tarts sound (and look) so yummy. I will have to try them and let you know how they turn out!
XOXO,

 
At 1/03/2007 12:31 PM, Blogger Penny said...

Yum! They look good and so does the backyard :)

 
At 1/05/2007 3:42 PM, Blogger Michelle said...

i love broccoli. i could eat it everyday.

 

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