Easy Appetizers

With football parties and school homecomings, fall is a time when home cooks need easy appetizer and snack recipes that can be whipped together at a moment’s notice. This week, American Profile presents recipes that fill the bill.

One of the easiest recipes you’ll ever make, plus one of the tastiest, Prosciutto-Wrapped Asparagus Spears combine the fresh taste of asparagus with the saltiness of prosciutto, Italian for “ham.” Prosciutto is a ham that is seasoned, salt-cured and air-dried. Make sure your deli shaves the prosciutto into very thin slices for this recipe. If your local supermarket doesn’t carry prosciutto, you can substitute very thinly sliced country ham.

The Avocado-Stuffed Marinated Mushrooms recipe uses bottled balsamic dressing as a marinade for white button mushrooms. Look for mushrooms that are firm and evenly colored with no dark spots. For best results, simply wipe mushrooms clean with a damp paper towel. If you must wash them, rinse quickly in cold water and dry immediately with a paper towel.

Our reader recipe this week, Savory Three-Cheese Pockets, is another quick and easy appetizer. Using pantry staples such as refrigerated pizza dough, bottled Italian dressing, canned black olives, and jarred mushrooms and marinara sauce, this recipe comes together in a snap and is pretty enough to serve at your most elegant parties.

As always, American Profile looks forward to receiving your recipes and sharing them with our readers. To submit a recipe of your own, send it, along with the story behind it and a color photograph of yourself, to: Hometown Recipes, American Profile, 341 Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 400, Franklin, TN 37067. Please note that recipes and photos will not be returned.

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