Date-Cream-Cheese-Bacon Appetizers
Quick date appetizers At Christmas, you may have gotten an assortment of dried fruits. With figs, plums, apricots, dates, and nuts. And of those, you may have dates left over that you don’t quite know what to do with. Here I have a simple and tasty idea. These date appetizers are easy to make, and you can prepare them well in advance. They’re so quick to make, you’ll be able to finish them in time even if you have a spontaneous visitor. All you need is three ingredients and a spice of your choice. I used voatsiperifery pepper today. It tastes intensely peppery, woody, and warm. But you can use…
Fruit-tea-sauce with candied ginger and dates
Everybody buys too much on Christmas I’m sure you know this too. Christmas is a time for fancy food, which means buying a lot of groceries. Usually too much. So what do you do with too much? This year, I was determined to create a dessert for New Year’s Eve with some of the leftover food from Christmas that I already had in the house. I had lots of leftover Christmas fruit tea, dates, and candied ginger. The result was a very nice, slightly spicy, fruit sauce. I used grape jam to sweeten it, which gave it that certain something. You can use this sauce for different things. Over vanilla…
