Jalapeno Popper dip is good.

I've me this bunches and really well received.

Spinach squares
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Tbl chopped onion or more to your liking
1 cup
milk
2 eggs
1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and
squeezed dry
2 cups (8 ounces) finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese
Dash
of Nutmeg (opt) **To me, the nutmeg gives it an extra umph. I like it. Enough
so you can taste the hint of nutmeg

Directions
1. Heat oven to 350
degrees F. In 8 x 8 x 2-inch baking pan an melt 1 Tbl butter in oven in the
pan.

2. In a medium-size bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and
salt. Stir in milk, eggs, spinach and cheese until just combined. Pour batter
into baking pan with melted butter and bake at 350 degrees F for 35 minutes or
until lightly browned. Test for doneness with toothpick

3. Remove from
oven and let cool on rack for 15 minutes. Cut into bite sized squares

Place on platter with toothpicks for dipping into a bowl of salsa, in the center.

They are fine served room temperature or chilled.

Fresh mozerella balls (small) on a toothpick with grape tomatoes and basil worlk out well for me.

ETA I should have said on skewers, not toothpicks.

Chicken wings are always a hit. If you don't feel like making them, you could order a pound or two from a local deli or restaurant.

Another favorite is spinach dip in a hollowed out round of french bread. Cut the bread removed while hollowing the loaf into small squares and use for dipping.

Mustard - Dill Tortellini skewers

1 9 0z. pkg. cheese tortellini, 1 pt. grape tomatoes halved, 1 8 oz. pkg. sugar snap peas.

Cook tortellini according to pkg. directions, blanch peas and shock in ice water. *Thread pick with sugar snap pea, tortellini, tomato half. Place in 9 X 13 pour vinaigrette over. turn to coat. Chill.at least 4 hours.

Mustard Dill Vinaigrette

1/2 C white wine vinegar, 2 T. chopped fresh dill, 3 T. Dijon mustard, 2 crushed garlic cloves, 2 tsp. sugar, 1 1/4 C oil (half olive), salt and pepper to taste.

*I marinate the peas, tortellini and tomatoes and then thread the skewers....it's a little messy doing it that way but then the skewers aren't all wet with the marinade. They are pretty, somewhat healthy, and very delicious. Can be made ahead and put in a 9 X 13 plastic container all made up and ready to go.

With kids being included, I would do a fruit plate, kids love to grab and go. Maybe do a fruit dip for adults, kids don't care!

green grapes and pepper jack cheese cubes are great together OR regular cheddar cheese. I like the pepper jack.

My op only is you don't need something heavy, if you are having burgers.

Oops, missed the burgers and hot dog bit. Rarely see that myself anymore, BBQ is usually chicken.

Save my idea for a chicken dinner party.

I always like dip myself, with healthy veggies to dip in or corn chips.

Avocado Corn Dip

4 avocados

16 oz frozen white shoepeg corn (or 1 16-ounce can of white or yellow corn)

½ red onion (or to taste)

½ red pepper (or to taste)

2 med cans chopped black olives

1/3 c olive oil

1/2 c lemon juice

3 tbsp cider vinegar

1 tbsp oregano

Combine everything except avocados and marinate overnight. Add avocados a few hours before and stir to make creamy. Serve with tortilla chips.

A real fav of mine are these little bites -

Olive Balls

2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, softened

1 (7 ounce) jar pimento-stuffed green olives

1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

In a medium bowl, or food processor, mix together the cream cheese, seasoning salt, and 2 tablespoons of juice from the olive jar until well blended. Set aside in the refrigerator to firm up, about 30 minutes.

When the cheese mixture is firm, pack enough of the cream cheese mixture around the outside of each olive so that it is completely covered.

Roll each olive ball in chopped pecans, and return them to the refrigerator until firm.

To serve, cut each olive ball in half, and arrange on a serving tray cut side up.

Deviled eggs.....there are so many versions. Standard, avocado, shrimp, etc.

Kids and adults love this...Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon crisps. Strawberries are definitely past their prime many places, but we are getting a second crop from the fields at our farmer's market and Trader Joe's has decent strawberries most of the year. TJ's also has (at least in the past they did) a cinnamon flour tortilla chip, that I use instead of homemade. Here is one recipe; there are many others:
Fruit salsa with cinnamon crisps

Thank you all. I appreciate that you took the time to respond. I'm right now contemplating the various options and your input is fabulous.

These were on a buffet table at a housewarming we went to a couple of weeks ago. Simple, pretty, and good. They'd been made ahead of time and chilled, placed on a pretty tray and fine eaten at room temp, not reheated.

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mmmmmmmm Morz8. Thanks

for something so simple: Cream cheese and Salsa

1 brick of cream cheese, brought up to room temp.

1 jar of favorite salsa

blend with hand mixer, place in serving bowl

serve with your favorite tortilla chips

that's it, so easy and always disappears!!

OMG, I love that dip sprtphtntc!!!! I cannot make it because I am capable of eating the entire brick of cream cheese prepared that way ... all-by-my-self!!

It is very good with warm breadsticks too.

I have made Glenda's spinach squares, we call them spinach brownies. But what ever you call them they are very good.

Thanks, janey, I also call them spinach brownies,

Rita, me too, its so addicting!!!! i do use 1/3 fat C.C. to make a little healthier, haha :)

look on pinterest for appetizers, you will find a ton of them.

I have always enjoyed t&t recipes from KT'ers.

Again, thanks, everyone. Glenda, yes, that's what I wanted (and received) - T&T recipes rather than just googling.

As an update, I'll tell you that I made the Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Crisps and also the Spinach Squares. Both were extremely well received! Coincidentally, I've now also been asked to provide the appetizer course for a dinner party next Friday night. I'm going to go by the list in this thread and pick out a few more to try. Thank you, All!

Suzieque, it's a curse! I always have made pretty tasty appetizers, some very complicated, so am now expected to ALWAYS bring the appetizers and have to hunt and hunt for something different and delicious, because I party with the same groups of people most of the time.

An easy one that I've made is to take a block of cream cheese, pour over to cover with seafood cocktail sauce, then top with those little fresh salad shrimp (not sure where you live, but they are readily available here). To make it a little more "fancy" I'll roll the cream cheese into a ball or oval, to disguise the fact that it's just a block of cream cheese, lol, then do the rest. Serve with sturdy crackers, like wheat thins or such.

Suzieque, have you decided what you will bring? The recipes that have been suggested all sound so good. I would have a difficult time picking one.