Stuffed Curried Eggs; these yummy treats can be made a day ahead.
Hard boil as many eggs as you want, remembering each egg will be cut in half, thereby giving you 2 curried eggs.
When you have finished boiling them, empty hot water, then run cold water into the pot with the eggs - cooling the eggs quickly in this manner will keep the egg whites white.
Shell, then using a sharp wet knife cut each egg length ways in half - dip knife in water between slices.
Using a teaspoon, remove yolk from each half and put yolk into a bowl and set egg white aside.
Add a good helping of mayonnaise or a creamy salad dressing and one teaspoon of curry for every 6 eggs, then using a fork or potato mashing utensil, mash the ingredients together.
If you have a piping bag, or want to pipe through a plastic bag with a corner cut off, pipe the curried yolk mixture into each egg white half.
Or easier still using a teaspoon, fill each egg white with the mixture.
Optional: garnish with paprika or sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley.
Cover and store in fridge.
Fruit Kebabs are a colorful and healthy option.
Use fresh seasonal fruit.
These are best made on the day.
Cut fruit into cubes and holding 3 or more kebab sticks at a time, 'thread' a piece of fruit on to each stick, whilst leaving enough room to easily hold the stick at each end.
Cover and store in fridge until needed, serve at room temperature.
Asparagus rolls are a healthy option.
Using a sieve or similar, drain canned asparagus.
Meanwhile sparingly butter 16 slices of bread (per medium size can), use white or brown, or both.
Stack bread and using a bread knife cut off crusts.
Then place one asparagus spear diagonally across one slice of bread and roll up.
Do this with all.
Using a spread or butter will cause the bread to stay rolled up.
And should you desire cut each roll in half.
If you don't want to use butter or a spread, then you can use a tooth pick through the middle of each roll to hold in place.
Cover and store in fridge until needed, serve at room temperature.
Make a tasty cheese ball, best made a day or two in advance.
Using cream cheese (not a softened cream cheese as it won't set properly), mix with a small tin of crushed pineapple that has been drained and a packet of dried onion soup.
Roll into a ball.
Optionally you can roll the ball over chopped walnuts.
Cover and refrigerate.
Serve at room temperature with crackers.
For something a bit decadent - Chocolate dipped fruit; using fresh or dried fruit, or a combination of both.
Purchase melting chocolate and follow instructions.
Dip up to half of each piece of fruit into the melted chocolate mixture then lay to rest on tray lined with aluminum foil, when finished put tray into fridge until that chocolate has hardened, then remove fruit and put into sealed containers and keep cool until needed, serve at room temperature.
Dried fruit can be made days in advance or longer.
Fresh fruit make preferably that day.
Dried apricots, ginger and banana chips, and fresh fruit such as strawberries, banana, orange and cherries are but a few mainstream suggestions.
Even nuts and sweet treats like cakes, cookies, confectionary will go down a treat - use what you have in your pantry.
Sometimes it is the simplest things in life that are the best.
Each of these tasty options is foolproof and easy to make, and they will appeal to most people - take one or two of the above and you will most likely be invited back.
Hard boil as many eggs as you want, remembering each egg will be cut in half, thereby giving you 2 curried eggs.
When you have finished boiling them, empty hot water, then run cold water into the pot with the eggs - cooling the eggs quickly in this manner will keep the egg whites white.
Shell, then using a sharp wet knife cut each egg length ways in half - dip knife in water between slices.
Using a teaspoon, remove yolk from each half and put yolk into a bowl and set egg white aside.
Add a good helping of mayonnaise or a creamy salad dressing and one teaspoon of curry for every 6 eggs, then using a fork or potato mashing utensil, mash the ingredients together.
If you have a piping bag, or want to pipe through a plastic bag with a corner cut off, pipe the curried yolk mixture into each egg white half.
Or easier still using a teaspoon, fill each egg white with the mixture.
Optional: garnish with paprika or sprinkle with chopped fresh parsley.
Cover and store in fridge.
Fruit Kebabs are a colorful and healthy option.
Use fresh seasonal fruit.
These are best made on the day.
Cut fruit into cubes and holding 3 or more kebab sticks at a time, 'thread' a piece of fruit on to each stick, whilst leaving enough room to easily hold the stick at each end.
Cover and store in fridge until needed, serve at room temperature.
Asparagus rolls are a healthy option.
Using a sieve or similar, drain canned asparagus.
Meanwhile sparingly butter 16 slices of bread (per medium size can), use white or brown, or both.
Stack bread and using a bread knife cut off crusts.
Then place one asparagus spear diagonally across one slice of bread and roll up.
Do this with all.
Using a spread or butter will cause the bread to stay rolled up.
And should you desire cut each roll in half.
If you don't want to use butter or a spread, then you can use a tooth pick through the middle of each roll to hold in place.
Cover and store in fridge until needed, serve at room temperature.
Make a tasty cheese ball, best made a day or two in advance.
Using cream cheese (not a softened cream cheese as it won't set properly), mix with a small tin of crushed pineapple that has been drained and a packet of dried onion soup.
Roll into a ball.
Optionally you can roll the ball over chopped walnuts.
Cover and refrigerate.
Serve at room temperature with crackers.
For something a bit decadent - Chocolate dipped fruit; using fresh or dried fruit, or a combination of both.
Purchase melting chocolate and follow instructions.
Dip up to half of each piece of fruit into the melted chocolate mixture then lay to rest on tray lined with aluminum foil, when finished put tray into fridge until that chocolate has hardened, then remove fruit and put into sealed containers and keep cool until needed, serve at room temperature.
Dried fruit can be made days in advance or longer.
Fresh fruit make preferably that day.
Dried apricots, ginger and banana chips, and fresh fruit such as strawberries, banana, orange and cherries are but a few mainstream suggestions.
Even nuts and sweet treats like cakes, cookies, confectionary will go down a treat - use what you have in your pantry.
Sometimes it is the simplest things in life that are the best.
Each of these tasty options is foolproof and easy to make, and they will appeal to most people - take one or two of the above and you will most likely be invited back.