How to Plan Dinner Party Appetizer Recipes

Series Summary

Appetizers first appeared in culinary history as a way to appease Greek and Roman rulers as they drank wine while waiting for their meals. Before the advent of nibbles to counter the alcohol, they might have demanded the banishment, even death of tens perhaps hundreds of servers as their stomachs growled and their buzzes took hold. In an effort to stem this loss of staff, the Roman Senate formed a special panel to investigate possible solutions. The result was the app tisor, which literally translates to “little meal.” Around this same time period, independent of any panel suggestions, peasant cooks realized they could keep family members from milling around the kitchen and getting on their nerves if they gave the hungry diners a snack before dinner.

Appetizers are perfect for most cocktail party so that people can snack and still mingle with other guests. In this free video series, our expert will show you how to make a variety of dinner party appetizer recipes, perfect for any event. You will get step by step instructions for making ricotta tarts, puff pastry straws, salmon canapes and fricos with maiche. They may sound fancy but these recipes are easy to make and taste delicious. Let our expert make your next dinner party a hit with these fun appetizer recipes.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Marieve Herington with Expert Village and because award season is just around the corner that is your Oscars, your Golden Globes. You are going to need to be planning some menus for those parties that you would be having. So tonight I'm going to show you how to create a menu of ricotta tarts done if filo pastry which you would not believe it when you taste them it is actually a low carb recipe. Some delicious sun dried tomatoes and some garlic in there. Secondly I'm going to show you how to add some visual interest to your table, some lovely long puff pastry cheese straws. Then I'm going to do some really really simple but very fancy looking smoked salmon canopies. Then finish off with something green on your table some maiche which is just a very green mild lettuce served in fricos which are Parmesan crackers and then just talk about cocktails. So let's get started. "