Favorite appetizers for potlucks?

Deviled eggs. I can make a dozen and never come home with one left in the container.

Chili Cheese Dip
1 can Denison’s Chili Beans or what you prefer
1 package of Cream Cheese
Shredded Cheese- Cheddar or Jack or Combination
Chopped Green Onion
Chopped or sliced Black Olives

You can double or triple the recipe.

Press and pat the cream cheese in a dish, spread chili beans on cream cheese, top with shredded cheese, chopped green onion and chopped or sliced black olives.
Bake or microwave till very hot. Served with tortilla chips

We made this for Christmas Eve dinner party and it went so fast that we made it again for NYE. So easy and delicious. Note: We made the pico de gallo from scratch.

5 Layer Wreath Dip:

1 can refried beans
shredded cheese
pico de gallo
sour cream
guacamole
1 Tbsp. lime juice
cilantro and 3 cherry tomato halves

How it's made:
Place a glass upside down in the center of a springform pan. Spread out desired amount of beans, then cheese, then pico de gallo, then sour cream, then guacamole. Drizzle on lime juice, and sprinkle on chopped cilantro. Place 3 cherry tomato halves in a cluster to look like holly berries.
Place in freezer for 15 minutes. Remove spring form. Serve with tortilla chips!

Stuffed Jalapenos

Ingredients: 1 lb ground Italian sausage (HOT if ya like! ) 22 jalapeños 1- 8 oz block cream cheese, softened 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese Directions: Preheat over 425. Cook sausage until browned. Set aside. Mix cream cheese with Parmesan cheese. Add cooked sausage and mix well. Rinse jalapeños. Cut each jalapeño lengthwise and remove seeds. Stuff jalapeños with sausage mixture. Cook for 20 minutes until tops are golden brown (cook on a large baking pan).

How about simple, but a little time consuming. Smoked Cheese. Using your regular BBQ pit, with a lid, and a tube smoker with pellets. I got white premium cheddar and cut it into lengths as wide as it is thick, bout 1" by 1". Packed the smoker tube with pellets and lit it. Put the cheese on and in a couple of hours you have the best cold smoked cheese you could imagine. In the pic I did cheese, shrimp (with Jack Daniels sauce) and deviled eggs. Got a bit carried away, but they were great, and it was for Christmas.

Sausage Wantons

1 package ranch dressing seasoning mix
2 lbs hot sausage (Jimmy Deans not Fields)
1 -8 oz sour cream
2 packages Mexican cheese
1 package wonton wrappers


Put wontons in mini muffin pan (use whiskey shot glass to form wontons in muffin pan) bake 5 mins at 350 degrees. let cool completely.

Cook sausage then drain. Add sour cream, ranch dressing mix, and cheese. Mix thoroughly. Fill wontons and cook 5 minutes.

Put layer of wontons in crock pot cover with wax paper, next layer and so on plug crock pot in and put on low heat, keeps them moist and warm.

makes 50 sausage wontons

One of my all time favs:

Stuffed Mushrooms
Brown sausage, drain excess grease from pan and run through food processor for finer texture. Add bread crumbs...shredded parmesan cheese and 1 block of original philly cream cheese. When mixed well, fill mushrooms. Top with pinch of bread crumbs and extra parmesan cheese. Put in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes at 350...done.

1 lbs. Jimmy Dean Hot sausage (other flavors avail)
¾ cup bread crumbs
¾ cup parmesan cheese
8 oz. cream cheese
15 – 20 large mushrooms, stem removed

Several good ideas so far... Thanks!

Getting some awesome ideas here folks. Thanks :)

Tortilla Roll-ups:
2 packages softened cream cheese
1 small can green chili
1 can black olives
10-15 flour tortillas
Mix first three ingredients with a mixer, spread mixture on the flour tortillas, roll up, cut into pieces-YUM!
(can serve with salsa but they are great plain)