Recipe of the Week – Small Plates
August 31, 2009 at 9:43 am 1 comment
(From The Quick Meals Planner at emealsforyou.com)
Every once in a while we break from our usual Friday night pizza and go for something a little more interesting. I put together some appetizer plates with whatever is around and whatever I feel like eating. The assortment above works for us as I don’t eat fish and my wife loves it. Fish for her and chicken for me. Actually she had some from each plate and really enjoyed the crostini.
Small plates work well for company, there is usually something on the plate that suits everyone’s taste. This is a good way to get rid of all those partial containers of “stuff” in your frig. You can roll up some lunch meat, spoon out some pickles or just put some left over cheeses in your food processor and make a cheese spread, adding olives, garlic, bacon bits, red peppers or whatever you feel like. We call this small plates (tapas) as we only put out small plates, that way everyone gets a chance at the food instead of the first person to the table takes it all.
Fresh Tomato Crostini
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 6 |
| Category: | Appetizer |
| Meal: | Other (General) |
| 1 | medium | baguette |
| 24 | spritz | PAM |
| 1 | large | tomatoes, fresh |
| 2 | cloves | garlic, minced |
| 2 | Tb | onion, red |
| 3 | Tb | roasted red peppers |
| 2 | Tb | peppers, pickled rings |
| 1 | Tb | vinegar, red wine |
| 1 | Tb | parsley, flat leaf, chopped |
| 1 | pinch | salt and pepper to taste |
Slice baguette diagonally in ½ inch slices. Spray both sides with Pam and place on a cookie sheet. Place in a 400 degree oven for 6 -8 minutes until lightly golden. Mince the garlic and place in a medium bowl; cut tomato, onion, red pepper, pepper rings and parsley into a small dice. Add to the bowl. Add vinegar, stir and add salt and pepper to taste. Spoon onto the toasted baguette and serve.
Entry filed under: Dinners. Tags: appetizer meal, appetizers, clams, crab dip, crostini, fresh tomatoes, potato rounds, shrimp cocktail, small plates, steamed clams.
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lynn | September 9, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I love your small plate idea. An ingenious way to use up all those leftover refrigerator tidbits. And the tomato crostini sound delicious.