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Dish you bring to holiday gatherings.

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Do you have a special dish you prepare for holiday gatherings not at your home?

I have two that are always requested by my family but both need to be finished at that relatives home. That’s really never a problem because the final steps of our holiday meals are always a team effort.

The first is a baked stuffed shrimp appetizer, I kick it up a level with adding a sliced sea scollop to the split shrimp before adding the stuffing, I also make my own cocktail sauce for this.

The second would be a satay dipping platter as an appetizer ( thin sliced beef, chicken and shrimp on bamboo skewers). If a BBQ grill is available this always goes over well. I make the traditional peanut dipping sauce but also make a sweet chili red sauce for dipping.

What dish do you bring?

Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas are always at my house, so I do a majority of the cooking. But my specialty for parties is deviled eggs. I make a number of different variations and they're always the first to go.
 
I've made these things for like 30 years. The filling is sour cream, cream cheese, chives and bacon bits. Spread across the ham, rolled up and sliced in bite-sized pieces.

Amazing.

I've seen similar with pickle spears or asparagus inside, also.
 
Depends on the holiday, but for Thanksgiving I have a great recipe for a Pumpkin Roll, and sometimes make Cranberry Meatballs for an appetizer. Shrimp with a nice dipping sauce is always good too.

Umm, getting hungry already.
 
Depends on the holiday, but for Thanksgiving I have a great recipe for a Pumpkin Roll, and sometimes make Cranberry Meatballs for an appetizer. Shrimp with a nice dipping sauce is always good too.

Umm, getting hungry already.

Cranberry meatballs sounds good.
 
Usually, we do a lot of appetizers in the morning, and watch the parade. I always have ham rolls, stuffed mushrooms, jalapeno popper dip, usually spinach and artichoke dip, seafood and crab dip, pigs in a blanket, etc. This year I found a good price on jumbo shrimp (10/15 count) so that's going on the menu, too. Plus a few other things. We sit there and munch on this stuff, and watch the parade, and then I get up and start dinner.
 
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