Favorite appetizers for potlucks?

You will be a huge hit...Costco or make your own...

Quickest, easiest and pretty darn close to tastiest appetizers I know for any occasion: an antipasti platter.

Open a jar of the following:

marinated artichoke hearts
whole roasted red peppers, cut into strips ( You can DIY over a gas stove but sometimes time trumps)
bocconcini in red pepper flake oil sauce or pesto sauce straight from Costco's(add more toasted flakes if you like heat)
oil marinated olives or roast your own(place a citrus peel strip in a piece of foil with olives,Italian seasoning and drizzle with olive oil; roast for 10-15 minutes in a 400 degree oven)
Thin sliced sopressata or whatever dried salami "floats your boat".

Arrange on a platter with toothpicks nearby.

Done.

I'm not wedded to the above components just they are easy to find most anywhere.

We enjoy and it it usually a big hit

Ritz Crackers
Cream cheese
Shrimp
McCormicks Lemon and Pepper Seasoning

Spread the cream cheese on a cracker
Place a single shrimp on top and sprinkle with the seasoning.
It's done.

I like to use Triscuits, for a little more taste

Chipotle Raspberry Meatballs:

1/2 bag of Costco frozen meatballs

1 bottle of raspberry chipotle sauce – also from Costco

Dump both in crock pot turn on low for 8 hours, or high for less. Eat!

It doesn't get much easier than pepper jelly over cream cheese served with some crackers. Sam's Club has an awesome assortment of warm prepared appetizers that are just cookie sheet to oven ready. I always like bacon wrapped water chestnuts or mini smokie link sausages. Spinach dip is awesome with some soft French bread.

If you are looking really quick and easy:

Round Sour Dough bread loaf, hollowed out and filled with spinach dip with bread removed from middle placed around outside plate edge or in a separate bowl, to use with dip. Quick, easy, attractive and very tasty. (if you want to not make your own buy premade Spinach dip).

Same below using premade for ease and speed:

Cut up french bread in rings, with pots of bruschetta and Tzatiki dips to enjoy.

Finger sausage rolls, throw in oven on tray to warm through thoroughly (usually pre cooked before being frozen).

Also good old reliable cheese cubes and silverskin pickles on cocktail sticks displayed on a foil covered round.

Trays of cut up meats and sausages same with fruits.

Fruits cut up on sticks, half pre-dipped in chocolate or offer a chocolate fountain to do their own fondues if available.

FWIW: Over the years we've done tons of potlucks with upwards of 80 folks typically on a Christmas Eve, and each person was asked to BYOB and a dish that's representative of where they originate from, caused great conversations on the history behind the dish and how it is made, from others that enjoyed something not typical to their regular diets.

Cocktail Weenies with grape jelly and BQ sauce! Just Kidding, but monitoring these post for possible Football Game fare :)

Cheese and red seedless grapes with garlic French baguette rounds sliced thinly.
We get the cheese that's already cubed.
Put two on a toothpick with a grape in the middle.
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Baguette Rounds
Make garlic butter.
Slice baguette into thin rounds.
Slather with garlic butter and heat in oven.

Easy peasy.

LynnandCarol wrote:
Cocktail Weenies with grape jelly and BQ sauce! Just Kidding, but monitoring these post for possible Football Game fare :)

I never knew this recipe actually existed until some women on another forum I frequent insisted they weren't "snipe hunting".

Still haven't tried it BUT I still have a bucket list....

Long green onions.
Philadelphia cream cheese
Pastrami or seasoned prime roast beef slices from the deli


Take cream cheese and spread thickly over end of onion.
Wrap pastrami slices over cheese.

Every time I make these it still surprises me how everyone goes ga ga over them. Men, women young and old. And no it does not taste like you are just eating an onion!