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PERFECT PARTY PLEASERS
- Cheese and fruit tasting is an easy,
conversation-making way to entertain friends before dinner. Seasonal
varieties of fruit include peaches, nectarines, sweet cherries, figs,
grapes, apricots, pineapple, strawberries, plums and melons. Or try fruits
such as papaya and mangoes. Dried fruits such as prunes and raisins also
team nicely with cheese and fresh fruits.
- Some cheese and fruit combinations: Cheddar, Provolone
and Camembert with pineapple, grapes, pears, and walnuts Brie, Monterey Jack
and Feta with tangerines, strawberries and dried prunes Colby, Gjetost,
Emmenthaler and Roquefort with apricots, pineapple and plums.
- Remember, if cooking the cheese for your appetizers,
that excessive heat and prolonged cooking turns it stringy and leathery.
When malting a sauce, stir in the cheese toward the end of cooking time just
until totally melted.
- To keep egg yolks from crumbling when slicing hard
cooked eggs, wet the knife before each cut.
- Out of ginger ale? Mix equal parts of Coke and 7-Up.
- Use styrofoam egg cartons as trays when you need extra
ice cubes for parties.
- Christmas Starter, dinner or breakfast: Serve Cranberry
Juice topped with lime sherbet.
- For instant white sauce: blend together I cup soft
butter and I cup flour. Spread in an ice cube tray, chill well, cut into 16
cubes before storing in a plastic bag in the freezer. For medium-thick
sauce: drop I cube into I cup of milk and beat slowly, stirring as it
thickens.
- Store carton of cottage cheese upside down. It will
keep twice as Ion.
- Try a new spice for your appetizers in place of salt.
Blend together 2 1/2 teaspoons each of paprika, dry mustard, garlic powder,
5 teaspoons onion powder, 112 teaspoon ground black pepper and 1/4 teaspoon
celery seed. Put all in a shaker and pass up the salt.
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