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Succulent Appetizers and Sides

Everybody loves appetizers. They’re fun, they’re the hand’s on experience. We experimented
colorful, they’re savory to eat. Appetizers are a by putting fnely slivered lime peel, toasted
great way to create miniature works of culinary coconut, fnely sliced ginger, and ground roasted
art without having to spend a lot of time or peanuts on top of a spinach leaf. After rolling

effort in the kitchen. And, to experiment with it up and dipping it into a bowl of sweet and
different tastes, favors, colors, and textures. spicy sauce, we were totally won over. As we
feasted on our wraps with a cup of jasmine
Tantalizing appetizers are often the entry tea, we talked about the unexpected tastes and

point for a sit-down dinner with friends and textures and how delicious they were. We’d go
loved ones, or they can become the mainstays to that restaurant, almost an hour’s drive away,
for party food. Often the appetizer is like a just to have more of those tangy-sweet roll ups
message of coming attractions, piquing interest and to sip on a cup of aromatic tea.

in guests who eagerly anticipate what’s coming
next. These mini-meals engage the senses Apples, cucumber, jicama, celery, beets, and
by providing a surprise of something new, kohlrabi make sturdy bases for yummy toppings
delicious, and different. like seed cheese, fnely chopped spiced veggies
or fruits, sprouts, or spicy guacamole. Dipping

Lettuce leaves and spinach make wonderful sauces are so much fun too, especially when
wrappers for roll-up appetizers. Years ago, eating food by hand. Serve sauces in individual
Rex and I had our frst-ever wrap in a Thai bowls so guests can “double dip” to their

food restaurant in Healdsburg, California. The heart’s content.
waitress brought out a tray of spinach leaves
and various chopped veggies, and instructed Sometime a whole meal can be made from
us to assemble our own wraps. Having never appetizers, much like tapas. Mix and match the

seen a wrap before, we didn’t know what to ideas that spring from your imagination, and
do. Then we started having fun and got into carry them out by intuitive food preparation.

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