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Three Ingredient Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Bites



Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breast tenders, cut into about 4 bite-size pieces per tender
14 slices bacon cut in half horizontally
Barbecue Sauce of Your Choice

Instructions

Preheat oven to 450F (230C). Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and place a wire rack on top of the baking sheet.

Wrap each piece of chicken with half of a slice of bacon, securing with a toothpick.
Place the bacon-wrapped chicken in a single layer on the wire rack.
Bake the chicken bites for 10 minutes, and then carefully remove the pan from the oven. Baste each chicken bite with barbecue sauce, and then return the pan to the oven. Cook for 5 more minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and bacon is crispy. Serve with additional sauce on the side for dipping.

Never had them, but they do look tasty.

Damn, was hoping to get some idea of other people's ideas... ah well ...



These are really tasty, made them last weekend

As someone who LOVES spicy stuff I can at least offer a few variations on your theme TM.

Take jalapenos, slice 'em in 1/2 and remove the seeds and center membrane section. Taking pepper halves you can add in chunks of your favorite cheese(s) or whole (shelled and deveined) shrimp or tuna salad, then wrap these filled halves w/bacon and bake them in the oven.

Sometimes I'll also take the pepper halves and just fill 'em w/cream cheese, shredded cheese, pimento cheese spread, tuna salad (w/onion, cilantro and dill pickles) or even various combinations of these and take 'em to warm weather family gatherings. I'll also usually make up some of the same stuffed into habanero peppers for myself as well as those who really like the hot stuff :>P

One of the best tricks in this regard is to always use fresh as opposed to pickled/canned peppers. The vinegar in canned peppers always seems to trigger an amplified effect upon the peppers eventual "egress" lol

And, fresh peppers contain a huge amount of natural vitamin C, while also helping to enhance a persons endorphin levels which also adds to their overall pain tolerance.

Well, I learned something new today

I love Hot poppers. Love Avocado sushi
youtu.be/WQomnMElcsw . youtu.be/eLRL18LvVyo

best appetizer is fish ceviche in my opinion or any seafood appetizer

Tried somethin new for breakfast today. Took some bread rolls, sliced 'em in half & toasted 'em, then took some left over thick spaghetti sauce and covered the roll bottom halves, popped 'em back in the oven till the sauce was good and warm, then popped the top halves back in with sliced pepper jack cheese on 'em till the cheese melted, slammed it all together and chowed down w/a cuppla fried eggs. Mmmmm!

Shrimp Cocktail

Ingredients

1 lb. raw, tail-on shrimp, cleaned and deveined
2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
Juice of ½ lemon
kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 c. grated Parmesan
2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
Marinara sauce, warmed, for dipping



Directions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, mix together all ingredients. Place shrimp on baking sheet and roast until golden and cooked through, 8-10 minutes. Serve with warm marinara sauce.

I used to LOVE these little filo dough cheesey puffy thingys. If anyone knows how to make them (the deeeelicious kind!) please, please, please do share!

:)

Mushroom Cheese Puff Bites


2 sheets of puff pastry
About 2 Tbsp oil for cooking
16 oz mushrooms
1 medium yellow onion
6 garlic cloves
Salt
12 oz sharp white cheddar cheese


Instructions

Thaw pastry sheets and lay them on a large cutting board.
Preheat oven to 400 and grease a muffin pan. (24-cup muffin pan or 2 of the 12-cup ones.)
Preheat a large cooking pan over medium-high heat. Add oil.
Dice onion and garlic and saute until onion is transparent.
Dice mushrooms and add them to the pan. Season with some salt. Saute over medium-high heat
until well done. Drain off liquid and transfer mushrooms to the mixing bowl.

Let mushrooms cool a little bit and then, mix in grated white cheddar cheese. Mix well.
Roll puff pastry a little bit (just a little) and cut the sheets into 9 squares each.
Place each square into the muffin cup, forming a little cup out of the pastry square.
Fill each pastry square with about 1 1/2 tablespoons of mushroom cheese mixture.
... Bake for 15-17 minutes, until pastry is golden-brown.



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just made some chicken parm

Honey BBQ Chicken Drumsticks


1 cup honey Garlic Barbecue Sauce
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 Tbsp. grated gingerroot
2 tsp. reduced-sodium soy sauce
16 chicken drumsticks (1-1/2 lb./675 g)


Heat greased barbecue to medium heat.
Mix all ingredients except chicken.
Grill chicken 15 to 17 min. or until done, turning occasionally and brushing with barbecue sauce mixture for the last 5 min.

Here is a simple to prepare hot appetizer.

A bag of small multi colored bell peppers
your favorite baked beans
Gruyere or a strong swiss cheese

Cut the peppers long ways and remove ribs
Blanch in boiling water for about 1 minute, no more than 90 seconds
then put the peppers into ice water to stop them cooking
Heat up your baked beans in a pan
place peppers on a baking sheet and spoon in the beans, top with grated gruyere,
and place under the broiler or into a Hot oven for long enough to melt and or brown the cheese, and serve

I know, sounds a little strange, but the texture, the crunch of the slightly undercooked peppers combined with the strong flavors of the beans and cheese really come together.
Bonus
I often see bags of these little peppers at 99cent only stores. A bag of peppers, a can of baked beans, splurge on some good cheese and you have a tasty, good looking appetizer for about $5

You are welcome TragicMouse and its great to see you back online. just ignore the idiots and wannabe bullies, do not even respond. Seems to me these days there are alot of unhappy patheticly lonely, desperate for attention people who will take an opposing view to yours just so they can get a reaction,any reaction. Don't give them the satisfaction. I seldom post anything and try to stick to vanilla subjects, like recipies. lol I have had some great conversations with people here, one on one. I wish you the best.

Goat cheese! 🐐🐐🐐 Now there is something I've been meaning to try and now that I have your recipe I will give these amazing looking snacks a go!

Thnx Sir, you always have great ideas, on this thread and elsewhere!

3 scallops pan fried with garlic n red chilli add lime juice then season n sprinkle a little chopped coriander