Blogging My Refrigerator New Years Eve Edition Recipe

We aren’t big New Year’s Eve partiers, but instead like to have a quiet evening at home with just our family and a few of our favorite appetizers and tapas. We let our kids stay up until midnight and have a champagne toast to welcome the New Year. This year, we may add to the repertoire and eat 12 grapes as the hour strikes. This is a custom in Spain (where we will be traveling to this summer while my husband teaches at the University in Salamanca) and a fun way of our ongoing preparation for our trip.

Nevertheless, over the last hour or so we’ve put together a few family favorites including: mushroom and leeks in phyllo, stuffed mushrooms, mini crab cakes, tamales (a friend dropped these off earlier today), puff pastry pizza…