Appetizers and Snacks

Appetizer And Snack Photo Gallery
View the pictures of some of our favorite appetizer and snack recipes!

Cooking For Groups
Do you have a large crowd to cook for? Planning a dinner for 100? A church breakfast? Check out our collection of recipes specially designed for large groups with helpful information like pan sizes and cooking times for larger quantity recipes.

Hearty Hors D'oeuvres: Chicken Wings to Mini-Meatballs
These appetizers are for the bigger appetites. We have hundreds of chicken wing recipes, cocktail meatballs, riblets, sliders and more. We even have some unusual appetizers like chicken-fried bacon!

Delicious Dips and Savory Spreads
It just wouldn't be a party without at least one tasty dip recipe! You'll find recipes for all kinds of dips and spreads from simple salsa, layered dips, hummus, sweet fruit dips, seafood dips like crawfish or crab dip, and veggie dips like the popular spinach or artichoke dips. Serve with your favorite dippers and you have the makings of a true party.

dip: a thick creamy sauce or condiment, served hot or cold, to accompany raw vegetables, crackers, processed snack foods such as potato chips or the like, especially as an hors d'oeuvre; usually made with a mayonnaise, sour cream or cream cheese base and flavorings.

Canape: Small open-faced sandwiches served as snacks or for lunch. They may be served hot or cold, but they are often elaborately garnished.

Humdinger Hummus
The heat has finally let-up here in the Grand Republic of Texas, and so life is increasingly more comfortable outdoors. In fact, I'm typing this on my patio as a cool breeze wafts under my nose, birds...

The Nibbly Meal
Part of what is wrong with the way society looks at food nowadays is that people have come to believe that food must make you feel full, that you must clean your plate, that dinner is the biggest meal...