Christmas Appetizers / Soups / Salads Recipes (Most Popular)

A crispy fried meatball, filled with cream cheese and sausage. Tasty and rich, this is Grandma's recipe made lighter.

Cute Christmas appetizer- calories should be even less than reported since the ingredients are only partially used! Fun project with the family.

A Christmas Eve favorite

Mushrooms stuffed with cheese

This is a quick and easy recipe my family makes for every holiday. The colors -- red and green -- make it fantastic for holiday gatherings. You can prepare it a day ahead and cook on the day you plan to serve it.

A Family Favorite at Christmas!

Delicious healthier and lower cal version for pate' fans. You can add pecans and spice it up a zillion ways. This is just the base recipe.

Serve with your fav healthy cracker. Cracker cals are not in this info so you'll have to add them.

great alone or in coffee or other recipes.

These are great for the Holidays

A festive little appetizer for the holidays

Delicious individual Christmas treats

Keep as a smaller serving but complements rich food

This healthy and hearty soup will warm your Irish spirit on the coldest of days.

I used my grandson's little pumpkin and a cast-off halloween pumkin - waste not, want not. It just happened to be 7 cups of pumpkin. You can change it up! When looking for soup stock, I was appalled at the amount of sodium even the "low-sodium" stock had - until I found Wegman's veggie stock!

Savory meatballs in sauce

Spices combined are: Black pepper, cumin, smoked paprika, onion powder, chipotle seasoning, oregano, basil, and thyme. Approximately tbsp each

Healthy alternative to sausage balls. Serving size is 3 1inch balls. Makes about 5 dozen.

Holiday Favorite low carb alternative

This is equally good as a schmear between tortillas for a fake quesadilla, or on bagels in the morning! For parties, serve with your favourite crudites and pretzel rods.

Traditional Slovac Christmas Eve soup that is made with sauerkraut, mushroom and barley.

Using up homemade cranberry sauce after the holidays

Fabulous way to use up Christmas or Thanksgiving leftovers!

A holiday treat! This recipe has a kick!

This is the salad my grandpa made every Christmas, and everyone loved it. Even as a kid, it was one of my favorites, he's not around anymore so this is me winging it.