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.
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.
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.
Spices combined are: Black pepper, cumin, smoked paprika, onion powder, chipotle seasoning, oregano, basil, and thyme. Approximately tbsp each
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!
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.
Healthy alternative to sausage balls. Serving size is 3 1inch balls. Makes about 5 dozen.
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.
Fabulous way to use up Christmas or Thanksgiving leftovers!