Appetizer Recipes

My sister swore she hated cream cheese balls. For years. Every holiday gathering, she’d walk right past them on the appetizer table like they didn’t … Read more

It was 11:47 PM on a quiet Wednesday in early December, and I had this overwhelming urge to make something that looked like it belonged … Read more

My dad swore he hated beef Wellington. For years. The man would wrinkle his nose at the very mention of it on a holiday menu, … Read more

The office holiday party was in six hours and I’d completely forgotten. I mean, I’d remembered the party—I just hadn’t remembered that I was supposed … Read more

The New Year’s Eve party was in four hours and I’d completely forgotten I was supposed to bring an appetizer. Everyone else would be bringing … Read more

I was at my son’s school book fair, sorting through a pile of slightly battered paperbacks, when the school librarian—a quiet woman named Carol who … Read more

The woman at the farm stand watched me eyeing her eggs, three different baskets of them, all labeled with handwritten signs. She didn’t say anything … Read more

My neighbor Rosa watched me fumbling with a block of cheddar and a star-shaped cookie cutter last December. I was trying to make something festive … Read more

My brother-in-law, Dave, had claimed for years that he hated appetizers. “They’re just tiny portions of food you have to stand up to eat,” he’d … Read more

I was standing in the middle of the party supply aisle at our local grocery store last October, staring at a display of plastic spider … Read more