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  Strawberry-Balsamic Appetizer
by Lana Stuart

This is a quick and easy appetizer with quite a sophisticated flavor. These little bites combine strawberries, balsamic vinegar and cracked black pepper. The base for the appetizer is the cracked black pepper and olive oil flavored Triscuit cracker. Try some of these tasty nibbles at your next get together, perfect for Mother's Day!

Strawberry-Balsamic Appetizer
adapted from Kraft Foods

For one dozen appetizers:

12 Triscuit Cracked Pepper & Olive Oil crackers
12 tsp. softened cream cheese
6 ripe, sweet strawberries, halved
Balsamic vinegar

Wash the strawberries, remove the tops and cut them in half. You want to use the sweetest, ripe strawberries you can find for this. The contrast in flavors between the sweetness of the strawberries with the balsamic vinegar and black pepper is what makes this so interesting.



Place a teaspoon of cream cheese on each of the crackers. Top with a strawberry half.

Place the assembled appetizers on a serving dish and add a drop or two of balsamic vinegar to the top of each strawberry.

Lana's Notes: If you can't find the Triscuits, you can mix a little olive oil and lots of cracked black pepper into the cream cheese and use a neutral flavored cracker.



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About the Author:
Lana Stuart enjoys cooking, doting over her grandchildren, and learning more about photography. Lana says "I grew up in a very small, rural south Georgia town and many of my recipes reflect the culture I grew up with. Occasionally, I share glimpses of the simpler more genteel life we led during my childhood." Be sure to visit her food blog, Never Enough Thyme.

 
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