tasty, easy to make party snacks

A variety of great snacks that are easy to make and not very expensive. These are ideas for birthdays or just a nice evening with friends and family. Warm and cold snacks that are easy to prepare and take you back to the 70's. We also have a few recipes for modern puff pastry snacks and fajita-wraps.

Easy to make and quite cheap:

Take a French bread, cut it in slices and cover them with:

• herb butter
• garlic butter
• egg salad, chicken-curry salad or any other kind of salad you enjoy
• smoked fish, like smoked trout, haring or salmon
• pate
• ham
• tartar with a chopped union topping

A little more work, yet a lot more exclusive:

• Filled half eggs: boil the eggs hard in about 8 minutes. Cool them and slice them in halves. Take the yolk out en mix it up with mayonnaise, powdered paprika and salt and pepper. Fill the egg-halves with the filling.
• Healthy fajita-wraps; take a wrap out of its package and heat it up in a skillet for a little bit. Put some lettuce, some cucumber, tomato, ham and some cheese on it. Add some mayonnaise if you like. Roll the wrap and cut into inch thick slices.
• Salmon fajita-wraps: Take a wrap out of the package and heat it up for a little bit in a skillet. Spread cream-cheese or garlic-butter on it. Add some lettuce and smoked salmon. Roll it up and slice it in inch thick slices
• Puff pastry snacks: take the puff pastry out of the freezer and let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes. Cover them with:
  • canned sausages
  • slices of ham and cheese
  • slices of salami

Roll the puff pastry. Beat an egg and brush some egg on top of the pastry-rolls. Cut it in slices and put them in a pre-heated oven at 350-390 F for about 10 to 12 minutes.

Old fashioned, simple, yet nice:

• slice of beloni with gherkin
• slices of cold cuts with half a hardboiled egg rolled up in it
• slice of ham with 2 asparagus rolled in
• cheese (cubed) with canned tangerine
• cubed cheese with small sweet union
• cubed cheese with pickle
• thick slice of salami with pickle
• sausage in all its varieties in rather thick slices (1/4 inch)
• toast with filet-american and a dab of mayonnaise
• slice of cucumber, with garlic sauce or aioli

Stick a little pick in them, maybe even with a little flag on it to get in the 70's and 80's mood. Very easy to make but perfect as it's always been over wine, beer or just a juice.

Sources: www.todio.nl