Cooking Recipe: Vegetable Kabobs with Blue Cheese Dip!

12 Appetizers

• 6 zucchini rounds

• 12 broccoli florets

• 12 cauliflower florets

• 12 cherry tomatoes

• 12 button mushrooms

Dip

• ½ cup (125 ml) firm-style plain yoghurt

• 1 tablespoon (15 ml) Blue cheese, crumbled

• 1 teaspoon (5 ml) lemon juice

• dash of Worcestershire sauce

• salt and pepper

Cut zucchini rounds into half-moons. In a saucepan filled with lightly-salted boiling water, blanch broccoli and cauliflower florets 1 minute. Add zucchini and continue cooking 30 seconds. Remove vegetables from saucepan. Immerse in a bowl of ice-cold water. Once cool, drain well and pat dry. Thread one of each vegetable onto small skewers. In a food processor, blend dip ingredients. Serve kabobs with dip on the side.

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Cooking Surprise Escargot Kabobs!

12 Appetizers

• 36 escargots

• 3 tablespoons (45 ml) butter, melted

• 1 garlic clove, chopped

• 1 tablespoon (5 ml) parsley, chopped

• pinch of pepper

• 36 spinach leaves, stalks removed

In a microwave-safe dish, combine escargots, butter, garlic, parsley and pepper. Cook 1 minute, on HIGH. Let stand 2 minutes. Meanhwhile, in a saucepan filled with lightly-salted boiling water, blanch spinach leaves 30 seconds. Remove spinach. Immerse in a bowl of ice-cold water. Drain well and pat dry. Wrap each escargot in a spinach leaf. Thread onto long toothpicks or small wooden skewers, 3 escargots per kabob. Cook in microwave oven 45 seconds, on HIGH. Let it stand 1 minute and you`re ready to serve!

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Ever Served Oyster Crackers?

20 Appetizers

• 3 ½ oz (104 g) canned smoked oysters

• 3 tablespoons (45 ml) mayonnaise

• 1 tablespoon (15 ml) chili sauce

• drops of Tabasco sauce

• 2 lettuce leaves

• 20 crackers

• 3 thin lemon slices

Drain oysters on a paper towel. Blend mayonnaise with chili and Tabasco sauces. Cut lettuce into 20 cracker-size pieces. Cut lemon slices into triangles. Spread each cracker with ¾ tablespoon (3 ml) sauce. Top with one oyster and garnish with lemon. And now serve and just taste those excuisite oysters!

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