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Appetizers Recipes

  • Mexican Avocado and Seafood Cocktail
    This appetizer combines seviche-like marinated seafood with a traditional sauce and creamy, rich avocado. Make sure your fish is impeccably fresh. ...
  • Classic Guacamole
    Make guacamole just before serving. For total authenticity, serve with freshly fried corn tortillas. ...
  • Vegetable and Goat Cheese Terrine
    This attractive layered terrine can be served as a first course or, with some crusty bread, as a lunch or light supper....
  • Green Onion Tart
    Cut this elegant tart into wedges to serve as a starter, or serve in larger squares as a main with a simple spring lettuce salad. The recipe is easily...
  • Pomegranate Yogurt Dip
    Lemony sheep’s milk yogurt goes especially well with pomegranate. Serve with pitas and vegetable crudités....
  • Potted Stilton Cheese and Cranberry-Pear Relish Hors d’Oeuvres
    Cranberries and pear give just the right fruity accent to cheese flavoured with Port – a holiday favourite. The potted Stilton will keep for a week ...
  • Smoked Mackerel Pastries
    These small simple pastries – which are much easier to make than they look – make especially tasty hors d’oeuvres to serve with wine or mixed dr...
  • Chinese Savoury Green Onion Pancakes
    Called “onion oil cakes” in China, these crispy, savoury pancakes are originally from northern China, where they are often served as part of a mea...
  • Baba Ghanoush
    One eggplant dish that everyone loves is this famous dip, served in practically every Middle Eastern restaurant in North America. This is the basic re...
  • Fried Mussels with Skordalia
    Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island's mussels are some of the world's best and they deserve a good fry-up. This dish is a Greek-Macedonian fa...
  • Italian-Style Lobster Sliders
    Nova Scotia I don't like to intrude much on such a Down East classic, but I think even purists will like this Nova Scotia lobster with an Italian f...
  • Wild Mushroom Knishes
    Yukon In my restaurant days, I used to buy sacks of wild mushrooms from a forager who lived deep in the woods of the Yukon. Her annual trip to Toro...
  • Wild Rice Breadsticks
    Manitoba The only cereal native to Canada, wild rice grows abundantly in Manitoba's wetlands. It adds depth of flavour, as well as visual appeal, t...
  • Red Lentil Dip
    Saskatchewan You might not think of lentils when you think of Saskatchewan, but the province produces 99 per cent of Canada's lentil crop. Red lent...
  • My Best Chopped Liver
    I was raised in a non-religious half-Jewish home where the holidays centred on family celebrations around the dinner table. My Jewish grandmother and ...
  • Chinese Spinach Pies
    This type of northern Chinese hand pie is called hezi (“box”) in Chinese. There, they are popular street snacks that are cooked in portable iron o...
  • Yogurt and Tahini Dip
    Serve this Middle Eastern–style dip with vegetable crudités or bread, or as a sauce for blanched vegetables, grilled meat, falafel or other fried f...
  • Basil Yogurt Cheese Balls
    These attractive cheese balls are wonderful served with crusty bread....
  • Basil Yogurt Cheese
    Serve this as a dip for bread, crackers and vegetables....
  • Shrimp and Vegetable Fresh Spring Rolls with Nori
    These low-fat spring rolls will be a big hit at any gathering. The nori seaweed layer (find it in the Asian section of your supermarket or health food...
  • Peppered Bison or Beef Cubes
    Bison has a fuller flavour than beef, and is leaner, so it is a naturally healthier choice....
  • Ginger-Cured Salmon
    Cured salmon, or gravlax, is a Scandinavian specialty; here it is given an East Asian treatment....
  • Mussels with Fennel
    Mussels served on the half shell make a delicious and elegant low-fat hors d’oeuvre....
  • Pan-Fried Shrimp and Green Onion Cakes
    For the sweetest flavour, use fresh water chestnuts available at Asian markets. Peel them, paring off any yellowish bits, and soak in cold water in th...
  • Portuguese Shrimp Rissoles
    These little pastries, called rissóis in Portuguese, are sold everywhere in coffee shops and bar-eateries, especially in Lisbon. Here, in Portuguese-...
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