Appetizers

CALICO CHEESE BALL
Barbara Wright

Ingredients:
2 (8oz.) cream cheese, soft
½ cup grated green pepper
¼ cup grated onion
2 tsp. Lawreys seasoning salt
½ cup pecans or walnuts, chopped medium, not fine

Instructions: Mix it up the night before and let it set.  Good with veggies.  Also can roll cheese ball in the nuts.  Put in dish to dip.

TACO DIP
Barbara Wright

Ingredients:
32 oz. refried beans, mixed with 1 or 2 pkgs. taco mix
16 oz. sour cream (enough to cover beans)
4 oz. chopped black olives
1 large sweet onion, chopped
2 cups shredded cheese
2-3 large tomatoes, chopped

Instructions:
1.Layer in 9” x 12” dish in following order:

•Refried beans
•Sour cream
•Olives
•Onion
•Tomatoes
•Cheese

2.Serve with taco chips

WINTER CHESTNUT WRAPS
Moreta Fosner

Ingredients:
2 cups whole water chestnuts
2 pkgs. Thick bacon, cut in half and partly cooked, not crisp.
2 cups Catsup
1 ¼ cup sugar

Instructions:
1.  Wrap bacon half around each whole chestnut, secure with toothpick.  Place in a glass pan.
2.  Mix Catsup & sugar together, pour over chestnut wraps.
3.  Bake in 400° oven for 12 minutes.


HOLIDAY PATÉ
Marguerite Kanaga

Ingredients:
1 8oz package cream cheese
1 12oz Farmer Johns Liverwurst
2 Tbsp. onion flakes (optional)
Instructions:
Soften cream cheese and liverwurst.  Mix well with onion flakes.  Form into a ball.  Chill.  Serve with crackers (like Ritz).  Very popular among our friends.

TUNA LOAF (A CHRISTMAS FAVORITE)
Lorrene Webber
Ingredients:
2 8oz. cream cheese, room temperature
2 cans of tuna
4 tsp. lemon juice
4 tsp. grated onion
2 Tbsp. capers
¼ cup chopped olives
½ cup finely chopped walnuts
¼ tsp. salt
⅛ tsp. black pepper
1½ tsp. dry mustard
½ tsp. thyme

Instructions:
Combine all ingredients and mix with a fork until well blended.  Shape into a ball and roll in chopped parsley, or use a fish-shaped mold.  Remove from mold and decorate.  Chill.  Serve with crackers.