Party Appetizer Recipes

Recipe: Grilled Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches, Blue Cheese Coleslaw

It’s party season, and that means many families are looking for summer sandwich recipes for graduation parties, showers and family reunions.

KC Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce is here to help with your party planning. The barbecue pros offer a crowd-pleasing recipe for grilled buffalo chicken sandwiches topped with blue cheese coleslaw.

Not only is it tasty, but it’s also quick and economical. Chicken thighs are less expensive than white meat, and because they are first pounded thin, they grill up faster. Serve the sandwiches whole, or cut the sub rolls in two or three sections for appetizer portions. Grilled Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches and Blue Cheese Coleslaw

8 boneless, skinless chicken thighs 1 bottle KC Masterpiece Buffalo Marinade

Blue Cheese Coleslaw:

1 bag pre-shredded coleslaw with carrots 1 cup crumbled blue cheese 1 (16-ounce) bottle of ranch dressing 8 sub rolls

Trim all fat from chicken thighs. Lightly pound thighs with a meat mallet until they are an even thickness, approximately 1⁄4 of an inch. Place thighs into a re-sealable food storage bag, and pour in marinade until it coats thighs. Marinate in refrigerator for two hours.

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Recipe: Grilled Buffalo Chicken Sandwiches, Blue Cheese Coleslaw

It's party season, and that means many families are looking for summer sandwich recipes for graduation parties, showers and family reunions. KC Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce is here to help with your party planning.

Sandwich perfect for parties

Fresh local strawberries delectable in cakes, appetizers and salads

Makes 12 servings Source: Recipe by Darlene Tanaka for the Fraser Valley Strawberry Growers Association ——— Strawberry-Topped Brie This colourful warm cheese makes a great party dish served with thin slices of baguette. 500 g (1 lb) round of brie 10

Watermelon Fries

You can easily scale this recipe up or down depending if you're feeding the kids a snack or an appetizer for a big 4th of July party. As listed the recipe will serve as a great snack for 4 people to watch MasterChef on Fox! Line a wire rack with paper

Versatility Makes Spanakopitas a Perfect Party Food

Versatility is a benchmark quality of this classic Greek dish as it can be made in a large pie, individual main course size triangles or, as Daphne and Hunter demonstrate, appetizer size--two bite triangles. Daphne and Hunter's version is one of the

Party Appetizer Recipe: Italian Sausage Bites

Okay, raise your hand if you like yourself a hot and juicy Italian sausage (and yes, double entendre fully intended). If food can be sexy, this innocent looking dough pocket and rich red tomato sauce combo is a sex kitten. It’s not the smoldering hot, dark hair, muscular olive tone skin obvious sexy beast. You know how they say you need to look out for the innocent looking one’s? The girls with the freckles and innocent looking smiles – those are the girls that are fire in the bed. Well, these little party appetizers are the food equivalent.

What do homemade pop tarts and cheesy brat bites have in common? They were the inspiration for this party appetizer recipe: Italian Sausage Bites . The dough recipe used in all of these recipes is the perfect companion to whatever filling you choose to put inside of these little pockets. So I started thinking about what other yummy party foods I could make and my brain started churning out ideas for appetizers…hot appetizers. Actually, I wanted something that could be served hot or at room temperature so that this party appetizer recipe could be portable. I’m prone to keeping boxes of goodies from Trader Joe’s in the freezer, but lately I haven’t been finding anything that looks good, plus we get bored with the same things over and over again. So I thought it would be great to have some of my own appetizer recipes that I could make up ahead of time and freeze to have on hand for get togethers or to take when going to someone’s home.

I’ve already served this appetizer recipe twice, to very good reviews. The first batch was served as hot appetizers; straight out of the oven with the tomato dipping sauce also warm. Of course, the filling is very hot (when served this way) but everyone was oohing and aaaahing with every bite. The second time I served these was after they had been in the freezer for a little over a month. I popped them in the oven (for about 5 minutes longer then when cooking them fresh) and brought them out to cool. I served both the sausage bites and dipping sauce at room temperature. You gotta love versatile party appetizers!

I wouldn’t classify this as an easy appetizer recipe, but it’s not difficult…it just takes a little bit of time. This recipe offers several perks: it’s delicious (so make plenty), the variations are seemingly endless (sweet and savory) and you can make these ahead of time and freeze them so you’re always ready for impromptu guests. With all of the summer parties coming up, having these Italian sausage bites already made, and in the freezer, are an absolute gift (to yourself). With these in the freezer, you’ll have plenty of time to make up your other party appetizers and drinks. And you’ll probably still have some time to put your feet up and have a drink before your guests arrive. Plus, people will think you were up all night cooking.