North american appetizers & snacks recipes with 500 or fewer calories costing more than $3 per serving

Baked Stuffed Clams

These make a great appetizer, or serving a couple they make a nice dinner, and occasionally to make them truly elegant I top them with Hollandaise…

Shiitake Mushrooms: Vegetarian Adobo

I'd like to think that Adobo is national 'way of cooking' rather than the national dish of the Philippines.…

Best Beef Jerky

This Best Beef Jerky combines knee-weakening flavors of seasoned, lean, tender beef strips with savory, sweet and salty yumminess!

Zucchini Pico de Gallo Salsa or Salad

As delicious to taste as it is to behold! And just one more recipe in your zucchini cookbook arsenal. Easy to…

Super berry green smoothie

Easy Russian Snack

Grilled Coconut Shrimp Skewers

Nothing says the tropics like coconut and pineapple and that is what is in this scrumptious recipe. Utilizing fresh pineapple, coconut milk and…

Turkey Jerky Dog Treat Recipe

Use some of that left over turkey as treats for your dogs!!

Chad's Real Deal Salsa

I have perused the web over and over and have had a very hard time finding authentic salsa roja (Red Salsa for you gringos). True salsa roja is NOT…

Lamb Biryani

This rice/lamb dish is the centerpiece of any grand festive event. This last Xmas my daughter, grand daughter and I also cooked the following for…

GALA CRABMEAT DIP

So easy, so versatile and so good. If I’m serving this as an appetizer I heat it in the microwave and serve it with various crackers. Or, you…

guacamole

this guacamole is fairly mild, but goes great with blue corn chips it is a perfect dip.

Ice Box Dill Pickles

You don't have to can, to make your own pickles. This recipe allows you to make a 1 quart jar of crisp, tasty dill pickles, that will last for a…

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