Sheva Brochos Appetizer

Silver Member Joined: Apr 10 2008 Posts: 861

I am looking for a nice appetizer that I can use for a Sheva Brochos - It needs to be something on the table when everyone walks in.

Something cheap and not hard to prepare.

TIA

Platinum Member Joined: May 15 2008 Posts: 5033

Salad in taco shell?

Silver Member Joined: Apr 10 2008 Posts: 861

How do you make a taco shell?

Platinum Member Joined: May 15 2008 Posts: 5033

You can buy it. If you want to make it ( it will probably come out cheaper), I can find out how to do it. I know a couple of people that did it.

Posted: Sun, Jun 14 2009, 8:19 pm Post subject: re: Sheva Brochos Appetizer

Caesar salad?

Silver Member Joined: Apr 10 2008 Posts: 861

Where can I buy the taco shells?

Platinum Member Joined: May 15 2008 Posts: 5033

Grocery? Maybe they come frozen and you have to bake them?

Diamond Member Joined: Dec 26 2006 Posts: 4316

Buy corn Tortillas and bake them draped over an upside down ramekin (spray with baking spray first.)

Last edited by ra_mom on Sun, Jun 14 2009, 8:28 pm; edited 1 time in total

You can buy soft round tortillas, drape them over oven proof soup bowls (upside down) and bake for a few minutes.

Platinum Member Joined: Mar 24 2008 Posts: 6528

What about a corn beef salad. On each place there is a layer of angel hair pasta, lettuce, chopped corn beef, croutons and a dressing. It looks really pretty and tastes good.

Or in the summer a fruit soup is very refreshing.

Gold Member Joined: Mar 08 2008 Posts: 2200

You can take either eggroll wrappers or small round tortillas. You can either bake them or deepfry them. PM me for details.

You can also do salmon skewers, which is a cube of salmon, a small button mushroom, a slice of zucchini and cherry tomato or red pepper and repeat the order so that you have two of each on the skewer. Then you can either pour Mikee Sesame Teriyaki sauce over the cubes, or make your own Teriyaki marinade with teriyaki sauce, brown sugar, ketchup and sesame seeds. I serve it on a bed of angel hair pasta that I prepare by cooking the pasta, pouring 1/2 cup soy sauce, 1/2 cup sugar and 1/3 cup oil over it and mixing well. Then I slice in some scallions and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Looks professional and easy to make. Oh, and when I make it, it gets finished to the last drop.
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Silver Member Joined: Apr 10 2008 Posts: 861

sunshine! - you and I are from different worlds. I am not so fancy. I think I will go with the salad in the taco shell. My sister-in-law just offered to do the taco shells for me.

Silver Member Joined: Jun 11 2009 Posts: 529

ou can also do a fruit cup from canned fruit which looks nice and is pretty cheap. I just used a few months ago when I made theese phylo cups that were in the grocery prbaked I made a turkey salad made of crasin and mandarin orange and prepacked turkey breast and scallion and a slight dressing very colorful simple and cute everyone loved and I also filled a shell with a sweet pot filling to make the plate overly colorful not really neccesary. The shells are cute and come in 3 colors a plain one which is white a red one thats tomato and a green spinach one.

Silver Member Joined: Apr 10 2008 Posts: 861

I like the idea of the colorful shells - what company makes them?

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Posted: Sun, Jun 14 2009, 10:05 pm Post subject:

You can buy for certain bakeries the fried shells-comes in a few sizes and put salad in it-it's nice and good.
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Gold Member Joined: Jul 10 2005 Posts: 2115

flowerpower can you tell me which bakery sells them? Do you know if it freezes well?

Posted: Mon, Jun 15 2009, 2:08 am Post subject:

I'll be doing a Friday brunch Sheva Brachot and I'll be doing melon kebabs with a yogurt dipping sauce as appetizer.
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hi sunshine
those skewers sound delicious. do u grill them? is there a way to prepare them in the oven?

thx!!

Posted: Wed, Aug 26 2009, 4:51 pm Post subject: re: Sheva Brochos Appetizer

I took puff pastry and cut into heart size shapes (with a cookie cutter) and then poured a mushroom sauce over them. Easy and cheap.