My family loves the Hidden Valley Ranch apps :
Oyster Cracker Snack
½ teaspoon dill weed
¼ cup vegetable oil
1 box (16 ounces) oyster crackers
1 packet (1 ounce) Hidden Valley® Original Ranch® Salad Dressing & Seasoning Mix
Optional: ¼ teaspoon lemon pepper or ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
Place crackers in a gallon-size Glad-Lock® Zipper™ Storage Bag. Pour oil over crackers; seal bag and toss to coat.
Add dressing mix and spice; seal bag and toss again until coated. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 250°F for 15 to 20
minutes or until golden brown.
Hidden Valley Ranch Sausage Stars
2 cups (1 lb.) cooked crumbled sausage
1 1/2 cups grated sharp Cheddar cheese
1 1/2 cups grated Monterey Jack cheese
1 cup prepared Hidden Valley Ranch Original Ranch Salad Dressing Mix (you can substitute bottled Ranch)
1 can (2.25 oz) sliced ripe olives (I omit these)
1/2 cup chopped red pepper (I use green)
1 pkg. won ton wrappers (I find then in the vegetable case). or egg roll wrappers, cut into quarters
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Blot the sausage dry with a paper towels, and combine with cheeses, salad dressing, olives and pepper.
Lightly grease a mini muffin pan with cooking spray and press 1 wrapper in each cup. Lightly spray with vegetable spray and bake for 5 minutes until golden. Remove from tins; place on baking sheet. Fill with sausage mixture. Bake 5 minutes until bubbly
Pickle Wraps
My mom would get that very thinly sliced beef in the deli section, spread cream cheese and add a very thinly cut pickle - I'm pretty sure she used gherkin pickles she cut into long strips - then rolled them, cut them in half or fourths...
And who doesnt like Shrimp for an appetizer!!
I make mine with cream cheese - I take the cream cheese add a grated onion, some worchestershire sauce then spread it on a plate - then I take BENET's CHILI Sauce (it looks like the red horseradish ketchup sauce, but its different I think my mom said Heinz makes a chili sauce as well) Pour that on the cream cheese - add a can of drained and rinsed crab, then top with tiny shrimp!!
I know most people just take the brick of cream cheese dump that red bottle of horseradish shrimp sauce and then add shrimp - its a lot faster/easier.. but no crab!
Then there is that bag of meatballs at Sam's Club - you put them in your crock pot Dump in the 32 ounces of Grape Jelly and a 2 jars (12 ounces) of that Chili Sauce (I use Benet's but Heinz makes it too) - (at Halloween some use those little smokie hot dog type sausages and call it fingers or something silly)
). Not really into the cheese and crackers stuff with having pizza but not coming up with ideas besides chips and pretzels which seem boring to me with having friends over. I want to Celebrate!
