"A Taste Of Heart & Home"
This simple recipe was inspired by All-Dressed chips. I like the rounded blend of spices in that addictive snack. I followed the same idea in creating this recipe for Dressed Up Sour Cream, combining a few pantry items with the addition of fresh or dried herbs. I serve this delicious mixture with so many things: baked potatoes, potato chips, appetizers and snacks such as Game Day Savoury Potato Wedges and Parmesan Pita Crisps and Dry Roasted Crispy Chicken Wings with Honey Garlic Dip.
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Find over 40 Super Bowl Snacks from Food Bloggers of Canada, including one of my favourites from the Urb’n’Spice blog. Have fun planning for your Superbowl party or any appetizer and small plates gathering today with these amazing recipes. It’s going to be a great party!
Every week Food Bloggers of Canada has a recipe roundup of some great Canadian recipes from Canadian food bloggers around the web featuring one main ingredient or dish. UrbnSpice contributed to this recipe roundup: Bacon Cheese Potato Cups
Bacon Cheese Potato Cups – perfect for any appetizer event
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Do you have a repertoire of appetizers that you make for every small plates occasion or one that friends and family ask you to make for SuperBowl parties and TGIF events? This recipe for Bacon Cheese Potato Cups is one of those appetizers that seems to fit that bill, suits every occasion and is just darned delicious. This particular appetizer was probably the hands-down favourite in my Appetizer classes.
The appetizer class is a hands-on lively three-hour jam-packed course where we make an entire sample menu of appetizers. Typically, we then debrief with a glass of wine and enjoy the feast together at the end of the class. These Bacon Cheese Potato Cup appetizers never, ever made it to the table at the end of the class. We hovered over the baking sheet as they came out of the oven and demolished them in seconds. Luckily, I took a photo or two before they disappeared.
Bacon Cheese Potato Cups are super easy to make and do not require any obscure ingredients. The trick is finding the perfect size potato – these potatoes fit in the palm of my hand, so small but not as small as nugget size. The reason is you will be working with half of a potato for each potato cup with the intention of a two or three bite appetizer.
Have you heard of Parmesan Pita Crisps? They are addictive. You cannot buy anything that tastes like them. They are better than chips. They are so good you will want to devour the entire bowlful. You will want more than you have made.
Every. Single. Time.
They are so good that family members ask for them in their annual Christmas baskets – truly! So that means, I have made enormous amounts of pita crisps. I would say that they keep well, however, I cannot say that these crispy bits of goodness have lasted long enough to test that theory. As a matter of fact, I had to make more just so that I could take a photograph for this post – really.
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Do you remember the post about How to Caramelize Onions? It is an important technique to learn in the kitchen. Let’s use your new skill to make this recipe for Caramelized Onion Dip. Preparation time to make this Dip is about one minute. Get the chips ready and dig in!
Caramelized Onion Dip
I use huge quantities of caramelized onion in my kitchen. I make pans and pans of caramelized onion for the most popular of the UrbnSpice savoury Confitures – Caramelized Onion and Roasted Garlic Confiture. When you consider that the yield achieved from 100% raw onion to caramelized onion is approximately 20%, it takes a great deal of sliced onion to make just one small batch of this confiture. But, again, so worth the effort.
Caramelization of the Onions is almost complete – Time to Make Caramelized Onion Dip
CHEF TALK: Once you know how to caramelize onions, there are hundreds of ways of using them. One of the best is a recipe for Caramelized Onion Dip. Once you make this delicious dip, you will never buy the store-bought version again.
Caramelized Onion Dip Ingredients
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“I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town!
That would be on my last-supper list.”
Christina Hendricks
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In a recent article called Tweaking: A Study in Flavour Amendment, I describe how to make each dish that you make flavourful and perfectly seasoned. I included the following recipe in that particular article, however, I am reposting separately to make sure that you can access the recipe for Grilled Chicken Breast with Roasted Strawberry Salsa easily and practice your new ‘tweak-ability’.
In summary, it is now your turn to try some of the flavour boosting tweaking ideas from the article mentioned above. Don’t forget to taste, taste, and then, taste again; even if it means that you have to buy a few extra teaspoons. It will help you build your ‘tweaking’ capabilities and in turn, build confidence in the kitchen.
Roasted Strawberry Salsa on Grilled Chicken Breast
This tweaking process is often ignored until the dish is finished and on the table. In professional kitchens, the tasting ritual is encouraged by having containers of fresh spoons available for the cooks and executive chef for continual tastings while food is being prepared. It is an important element in cooking and one that is stressed in good kitchens.
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This is one of the most versatile salsas that I have ever made. This Tomato Herb Salsa has graced our table through many types of events, from Happy Hour to Block Parties to many summertime meals and Back Yard BBQs.
Fresh Tomato Herb Salsa
I have served this Tomato Herb Salsa for appetizer parties to accompany pita crisps (do you know about pita crisps?); for flatbreads; for bruschetta; for quesadillas; for pizzas; to top hubby’s famous hamburgers; and most recently, to garnish the top of Home Welcoming Hearty Black Bean Soup. It will be a welcome addition to your appetizer repertoire. Pour a glass of wine for your guests while you prepare this quick and easy salsa. Grab a bag of sturdy chips and enjoy this fresh salsa.
Hearty Black Bean Soup with Fresh Tomato Herb Salsa
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