Aug 15 2008
Four Foods on Friday #42
#1. What is your favorite appetizer?
#2. Do you eat enough appetizers that you get full and can’t eat your meal?
#3. Do you usually make frozen or fresh appetizers?
#4. Share a recipe or instructions for an appetizer.
Those are the questions for this weeks Four Foods on Friday. Thanks Val! If you want to have fun, you should participate in Four Foods on Friday. It is an easy meme that requires very little time but lets you meet some great people.
#1. What is your favorite appetizer?
I like water chestnuts wrapped in bacon. Oh, maybe you mean appetizers that you order at a restaurant. I like to order the potatos with cheese and bacon sprinkled on them. I forget what those are called.
#2. Do you eat enough appetizers that you get full and can’t eat your meal? Well, of course! Isn’t that the idea? LOL
#3. Do you usually make frozen or fresh appetizers? I buy frozen appetizers at Sam’s Club. Their meatballs are good.
#4. Share a recipe or instructions for an appetizer.
Hmmm, since I usually buy mine, I will have to look through my recipes and get back to you on that one.
Edit: I found a recipe for bacon wrapped water chestnuts.
Cook Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients:
* 16 fresh water chestnuts
* 1/3 cup soy sauce
* 1/3 cup brown sugar, or as needed
* 8 slices raw bacon, cut in half
* 16 toothpicks
Preparation:
Peel and rinse the fresh water chestnuts. (If using canned water chestnuts, rinse in warm running water and drain).
Soak the water chestnuts in the soy sauce for 2 1/2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Remove the water chestnuts from the soy sauce and roll in the brown sugar. Wrap a piece of cut bacon around the water chestnut and secure with a toothpick.
Place the water chestnuts on a rack in a shallow pan. Bake for 30 minutes, turning them over once. (Alternately, they can be broiled for 5 – 6 minutes). Makes 16 appetizers.
(The appetizers can be prepared ahead of time and frozen before cooking. Placed in a sealed bag in the freezer, they should last for 2 – 3 months.
9 Responses to “Four Foods on Friday #42”
[...] Karen said she usually buys her appetizers. Her favorite appetizer is water chestnuts wrapped in bacon. [...]
Water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, a very interesting combination. I’m trying to imagine. Are the chestnuts roasted ahead of time or fresh?
Oh, water chestnuts and bacon! I would have never thought of that, but it sounds great.
corrins last blog post..Four Foods on Friday
I love frozen meatballs, they’re so versatile and people think you’ve spent all day making them! Heh heh
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I edited my post to include the recipe for water chestnuts wrapped in bacon.
Bacon wrapped water chestnuts? I’ll have to give those a try.
Fionas last blog post..Four Foods on Friday 42
I’ve never ate bacon wrapped chestnuts.
May have to try those. Our neighbors give us chestnuts from their trees every year.
Laura @ Laura Williams’ Musingss last blog post..JR. CHEFS OF AMERICA
Laura, water chestnuts are a tubular vegetable not a nut from a tree. I don’t know what you are supposed to do with chestnuts from a tree. Maybe crack them open and eat them?
Y’all are making me want to try the meatballs from Sam’s!
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