Appetizer & Snacks Cookbook
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5-Minute Refried Bean Dip
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 1 cup rosarita enchilada sauce
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- 2 cans (16 oz each) rosarita traditional refried beans
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- 1 cup crumbled queso fresco cheese
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- sliced green onion, optional
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Directions
- Place beans and enchilada sauce in a microwave-safe bowl; cover. Microwave on HIGH three minutes, stirring halfway and at the end.
- Pour bean mixture into a 9-inch glass pie plate or another shallow dish. Top with cheese and sprinkle with onions, if desired. Serve warm with tortilla chips, if desired.
Avocado and Key Lime Shrimp Tostados
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 2 pounds cooked shrimp, cut into bite-sized pieces
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- 2 pouches (8 oz each) frontera key lime cilantro taco skillet sauces
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- 2 large avocados, pitted, peeled, diced
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- 1 cup peeled, diced jicama or cucumbers
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Directions
Stir together shrimp, jicama, and Taco Skillet Sauce in a large bowl. Gently fold in avocado. Season with salt. Divide shrimp mixture evenly onto tostadas. Garnish with cilantro.
7 Layer Peanut Butter Dip
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 2 cups graham crackers crumbs
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- 2 cups peter pan simply ground peanut butter
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- 2 cups softened cream cheese
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- 6 tablespoons semisweet chocolate morsels
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- assorted dippers, optional
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Directions
- Evenly layer three 8-ounce jars with graham cracker crumbs, banana, peanut butter, cream cheese, honey, whipped cream, and chocolate morsels.
- Serve with optional assorted dippers: pretzel rods, plain poker chips, crispy bacon, fresh strawberries, sliced cooked waffles, pound cake, sliced apples, etc.
Avocado Corn Salad
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 6 cups birds eye sweet kernel corn
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- 1 tablespoon chili powder
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- 6 large avocados, pitted, peeled, and diced
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- 2 cans 1 (28 oz) ro*tel mild diced tomatoes & green chilies, drained
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- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
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- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
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Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Stir together corn, chili powder, and essential olive oil in a medium bowl.
- Spread the mixture evenly over the parchment paper. Bake for ten minutes and cool immediately.
- Transfer the corn to a huge serving bowl and toss it alongside the red onions, avocados, tomatoes, lime juice, salt, pepper, and cilantro.
- Chill before serving.
Bacon Mac and Cheese Bombs
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- pam original no-stick cooking spray
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- 4 cups leftover marie callender's vermont white cheddar mac & cheese
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- 2 (27-ounce) packages (13.8 oz each) refrigerated pizza crust dough
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- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
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- 16 slices fully cooked bacon, heated, chopped
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- 1 teaspoon parsley flakes
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- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
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- 2 cups wish-bone ranch dressing
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Directions
- Preheat oven to 425F. Spray 9-inch pie plate with cooking spray; reserve. Stir together mac and cheese and bacon in medium bowl; reserve.
- Unroll pizza dough; press right into a 15x9 rectangle. Cut into 24 square pieces. Divide mac and cheese mixture evenly and place in the heart of each piece. Pull edges of every little bit of dough up and around mac and cheese mixture to enclose completely; pinching seams to seal. Place seam-side down in the pie plate.
- Brush tops of dough with butter. Sprinkle evenly with parsley flakes and garlic powder. Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until the top is golden brown. Serve bombs with ranch dressing.
Barbacoa Beef Walking Tacos
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 6 pounds boneless beef chuck roast
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- 2 tablespoons ground cumin
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- 2 tablespoons chili powder
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- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
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- 2 teaspoons ground black pepper
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- 2 cans (28 oz each) ro*tel original diced tomatoes & green chilies, undrained
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- 8 ears fresh sweet corn, husks removed
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- 7 3/4 cups bibb lettuce, thinly sliced
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- 1 pound shredded white Cheddar cheese
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- 4 bags (10 oz each) yellow tortilla chips
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Directions
- In a huge bowl coat the beef on all sides with salt, cumin, chili powder, and pepper.
- Heat essential olive oil in a huge skillet on medium-high heat and sear the beef on all sides until it really is golden brown.
- Once it really is browned, transfer it to a slow cooker and pour in the can of RO*TEL. Cook for 5 hours on high temperature or 8 hours over low heat.
- After the cooking time is up, use 2 forks to shred the beef. Keep warm.
- To cook the corn, stick it on a hot grill (450 to 550) and cook on all sides before kernels turn bright yellow and start to lightly brown, about 8 to ten minutes total.
- Trim the corn from the ear and reserve.
- Place 1/2 cup to 3/4 cup of shredded barbacoa beef over some tortilla chips and garnish with grilled corn, shredded lettuce, and shredded white cheddar cheese.
Antipasto DiCarne
Servings: 10
Ingredients
- 2 (27-ounce) packages (8 oz each) thinly sliced cooked beef
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- 1 pound mushrooms washed and halved
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- 2 cans (14 oz each) artichoke hearts in water, drained
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- 2 bottles bernstein's italian dressing & marinade
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- 1 pound firm ripe tomatoes, sliced
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- 2 small onions, thinly sliced
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- 2 cups thinly sliced celery
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- 24 large stuffed green olives
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- 1 pound red bell pepper, thinly sliced
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Directions
- Combine beef, dressing, and mushrooms in a large nonaluminum baking dish or plastic bag. Cover or close bag.
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