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Termyn8or -> RE: What appetizer to serve at my bbq? (8/14/2008 7:29:52 PM)
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Wild, I think your application to the genius club will be approved. I think quesadillas are an excellent idea.
That would be even better if they are homemade, they don't need meat because you will be eating meat anyway. I don't think they are all that hard to make, but the question becomes what to put in them. And although it would be more trouble, I think the skinny ones would be better. I'd figure on three per guest, making them only about an inch in diameter. You don't want to fill them up and you don't want much leftovers because they do not reheat well.
Believe me I tried, and I am a bachelor and have become an expert on reheating. I can do alot of things, in fact I can make frenchfries better than when they were fresh. But I can't seem to get good results with quesadillas.
So if we are talking a spicy main dish here, I would stay pretty close to the classic filling, which is pretty much cheese, onion, garlic or powder, peppers but not too much peppers. Usually the store boughten ones have meat in them. I would omit the meat, but find something else.
I just sat here thinking for a bit ....... spinach, those mini brocolli flourettes, usually they are dried, what would you stuff a porkchop with ? Spinach and brocolli though, should not be mixed. It's one or the other, or totally something else.
I can't think of anything else right now, but maybe you will. And there is no law that says there can be no meat in them. That's just a suggestion.
I am looking for a bbq sauce I like. They are all too sweet, and as a result I haven't had bbq in a long time. Last time I went to one my buddy made mine without sauce and I put hot sauce on it.
I am always looking for different things to cook. I used to cook almost every day, and some of it was quite good, but I am sick of it. There are days I literally don't eat because I am sick of everything. Part of it is all the things I won't eat. I haven't McD's in a very long time, years, possibly a decade. I am actually considering it, I know it is junk but one time is not going to kill me. Maybe six months later I'll do Burger King. But that's just for a change, I will not start eating at these places again.
So I understand the desire to make something new and different. My adventure into chicken paprikash turned out to be a hit, I learned my way through it. Now I have to take the leftovers first or there will be no leftovers. I have some in the freezer right now, but I don't want it right now. Even though I only make it about once a year, I am sick of it. Time will come and I will get a taste for it, but not today.
I just looked up the couscous and in my opinion, unless the servings are very small it will probably be too filling.
Failing other appetizers, there is always veggies and dip, but then maybe you just make a unique dip. I have actually discovered the secret of the original Lawson's chip dip. It was the absolute best hands down, and now I know why. I won't go into it right now, but if asked I will.
BTW, when is this bbq going to happen, I mean how much time do you have ? If you have 20 guests that would be 60 quesadillas. That takes time. A local place here gets five bucks for four quesadillas, and they are getting it. And these are the small ones.
Well that's my ideas on the topic for this fine Thursday night. One warning though, if you make really good quesadillas your friends will haunt (or hunt) you for them.
T
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