I'm making a mix of tapas and meze for dinner today.

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evan

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We have so much food left from Christmas, and so many odds and ends of every vegetable and cheese and crackers and condiments known to, well me, so I thought I'd try to mix them into small dishes and see how it goes.

So far I have cheese (pecorino, manchego and a few Swedish cheeses), filled tomatoes, italian sausage (I told you it was odds and ends......), deviled eggs, a green salad, home made meatballs in tomato sauce (I figured meatballs are not optional so I'll make them for DH because he loves home made meatballs in tomato sauce) filo quiche in muffin forms, oven baked potatoes (quartered), sliced cucumbers with sour creme and...ugh, what do you call these fish eggs again?...., some spiced nuts and tomato and olive bruichetta.

I'll let you know how it works smileys/bigsmile.gif

Have a wonderful Friday, everyone smileys/smile.gif

 
This is my DH's favorite kind of dinner. Maybe I will do the same sort of thing tonight.

Thanks for the idea.

 
Sounds wonderful to me!! I have been trying to use up all those odds and ends too.

Tonight there will be little boursin cheese crackers to eat alongside a bowl of chili!! And probably a few holiday cookies for dessert, LOL!!!

 
I did end up doing this, Eva. Thanks for the inspiration.

I had some old frozen puff pastry sheets that I baked into parmesan cheese sticks. I had some homemade Thai green curry paste that I added to some cream cheese that I had leftover from making a cheesecake. I made deviled eggs, had two kinds of salami, some wicked cheddar, some Brie, some Nicoise olives, some peperoncini, crackers and some leftover tuna salad with cheese and black olives. My DH will go nuts.

 
DH loved it, and so did I smileys/smile.gif

I filled the tomatoes with chopped mushrooms and onion that I sauteed in butter. Then I mixed in chopped parsley and bread crumbs before I baked them in the oven.

The cheeses was the salty kind, so I sliced them and drizzled some honey over them and sprinkled some toasted pine nuts on top. Awesome!

I heated the sausage in the oven, so it practically made itself.

Deviled eggs is always good, and as usual I ate far too many....(I mix the yolk with mayo, paprika powder and some salt and that's it).

DH helped me make home made meatballs, and I made the tomato sauce (same as the sauce I used for Bolito Misto on New Years Eve. I posted it on here the next day. It's a great recipe.)

The filo quiche in muffin forms is sheets of filo placed in a muffin tin (I cut them into quarters, oil the layers between the sheets and put about three sheets on top of each other into each muffin cup - after I have oiled the cups first, of course). I sprinkle some bread crumbs on the bottom of the quiches to soak up moisture. I have found it keeps the filo dough drier. Then I just fill the cups with whisked eggs (add a little cream for luxury smileys/wink.gif, vegetables and herbs. And a little salt of course.

The sliced cucumbers with sour creme and caviar was great! If you make them, make sure to pat dry the cucumber slices on both sides before you put a small dollop of sour cream on them. If you don't pat them dry first, the sour cream will slide right off.

The tomato and olive bruichetta is basically slices and toasted baguettes, rubbed with a garlic clove that you cut in half first, and then make a mixture of chopped tomatoes and olives - add some salt and pepper and voila, you have bruchetta.

A green salad is a green salad - I just mixed all the leftover greens I had and gave them a light sprinkle of oil and herbs. I don't fancy vinegar. It just doesn't go with my palate smileys/frown.gif

I also found some brussels sprouts in the bottom of a drawer. I steamed them and fried up some bacon then I used as garnish, and DH loved them.

I peeled and quartered a few potatoes, and drizzled oil and salt on top and baked them in the oven until golden. Yum! Love those carb and oil bombs smileys/smile.gif

We finished off the dinner with Elenors Honey kisses (DH loves them!)
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Seriosly, 12 hours later and i'm still stuffed smileys/smile.gif

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