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Easy Hors d'Oeuvres Recipes

Just that "little something" to stir the appetite!

These appetizers will do just that, encourage the gastric juices to flow before getting into the main course. Try simple Mesclun Salad or classic Escargot. A super way to get more veggies before your family is with Stuffed Avocado, Parisienne Tomatoes, or sliced up Crudités for great starters!

Lots of ideas on starters, appetizers, or hors d'oeuvres, (which ever name you choose to call them) and some have lots of "zing" like Tapenade.

  • Brown bowl with muchrooms, snails and yellow cheese on top.
    Escargot Recipe In White Wine & Mushrooms
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    Tangy Olive Tapenade Recipe
  • Brown chopped duck meat with spices in a bowl and two baguette slices spread with the mixture.
    Duck Rillettes Remarkably Good
  • A round white camembert cheese sprinkled with rosemary and slices of white, brown crusted baguette bread beside it.
    Greatest Baked Camembert
  • White plate filled with assortment of vegetables and a white bowl of dip.
    Fresh Crudités Platter
  • tapenade with toast
    Quick and Easy Olive Tapenade
  • Partial bottle of vinaigrette, half a green avocado with beige pit, half a yellow lemon, corner of blue plate with green leaves, all on black background.
    Avocado Vinaigrette Appetizer
  • Golden brown fish balls topped with green parsley leaves on a white napkin on a white plate with a red gingham background.
    Homemade Fish Balls Recipe
  • Two dark green avocado shells stuffed with red tomatoes and other ingredients covered in cream colored sauce on a wood surface
    Stuffed Avocado Recipe, Indulge in French Delight
  • Block of terrine on multi coloured plate.
    Traditional Chicken Terrine Recipe
  • The top view of Pissaladiere a pizza like dish with a light brown onion topping with bits of green parsley and black olives scattered throughout.
    Pissaladière Is Good Eating
  • A pizza like food made with bread dough, cheese, bacon, and onions.
    Classic Tarte Flambée
  • A brown board with a clear bowl of mixed olives, with black and green olives scattered around with long green chive leaves and three bottles of red and yellow liquids.
    Easy Olive Appetizers
  • Two red tomatoes sliced in half horizontally and stuffed with white shrimp filling.
    Shrimp Appetizer
  • A plate with a blue design holding a sliced red tomato with sliced white and yellow hard-boiled egg between with a spoon of white dip on the side and green lettuce leaves.
    Stuffed Tomato Recipe
  • Several different wheels of various types of cheese from France some are white, yellow and light brown.
    Types Of French Cheeses

Pâté

  • White and black bowl filled with creamy, pate with bits of mushroom garnished with parsley on a red gingham table cloth.
    Tasty Mushroom Paté Recipe
  • Grey stone plate with slices of oval toast, buttered with smooth brown pate.
    Pork Liver Paté Recipe
  • Pink spread with parsley garnish in a white bowl on top of a white plate on a red gingham table cloth.
    Salmon Pate Recipe
  • A slab of course ground meat spread in browns topped with a green bay leaf.
    Pâté de Campagne
  • Light brown chicken liver paste wrapped in bacon on a white plate with a sprig of parsley.
    Decadent Chicken Liver Pâté Recipe: A Savory Spread

Foie Gras

  • Stack of white mashed potatoes with two slices of light brown liver pate in-between and on top with garnishes of brown star shaped croutons, green parsley, and red berries.
    Foie Gras Potato Stacks A Divine Delicacy
  • A white dinner plate with two round slabs of beige slices of duck foie gras with red berries on top, star-shaped gingerbread, slices of figs, and a bowl of red fig jam.
    Duck Foie Gras With Truffles
  • White dish with holes filled with butter, colored herbs, and snails.
    Classic French Escargot Recipe in Garlic Butter Sauce
  • Vichyssoise soup recipe is a very simple cream soup, served cold.
    Vichyssoise Soup Recipe
  • Cut up artichokes with slices of red onion and drizzled with vinaigrette.
    Best French Artichoke Salad Recipe With Vinaigrette aux Fines Herbes Dressing
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