Tapas!

Hello my friends! I feel like I begin each of these blogs with an apology for taking so long to post! I do want to start posting more often. I'm hoping for once a month! Stay tuned! 

Last month, my sister and her husband came to visit for his birthday dinner. So I decided to take my recent experience in Spain and do a tapas type dinner.

Note: The photography got a bit difficult with so many items going, so apologies for any steps missing. 

Tapa 1: Crab and Gouda Stuffed Mushroom

Ingredients

12 large stuffing mushrooms

1 cup chopped spinach

2 cloves chopped garlic

1/4 cup shredded cheese

6 oz lump crabmeat

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

Step 1: Mix all ingredients together 

I used Gouda cheese. But you can use anything, even cream cheese.

Step 2: Stuff the mushrooms with enough stuffing to fill them up

Step 3: Place mushrooms on a baking sheet lined with foil.

Step 4: Bake in oven preheated to 350 degrees for 20 minutes.  

Tapa 2: Salmon wrapped Asparagus

Ingredients

Asparagus

1 filet of raw salmon

salt

pepper

Step 1: Slice the salmon filet into thin strips

Step 2: Wrap each asparagus with a slice of salmon

 

Step 3: Place on a foil lined baking sheet

Step 4:  Bake in 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. 

Tapa 3: Prosciutto, goat cheese, and fig roll.

Ingredients

1 package crescent roll

 6 slices prosciutto

1/4 cup goat cheese

6 tsp fig compote/jam/preserves

Step 1: Layer the crescent roll with a slice of prosciutto with a few small pieces of goat cheese.

 

Step 2: Add the fig compote

Step 3: Roll the crescent roll with longer edge rolling into the shorter edge

Step 4: Place on a foil lined baking sheet and cook in a 350 degree oven for 12 minutes. 

Tapa 4: Coconut Shrimp

Ingredients 

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

2/3 cup beer

1 cups flaked coconut

16 shrimp

oil for frying

Step 1: Combine all purpose flour and beer

Step 2: Dip shrimp into the batter

Step 3: Roll the shrimp into the coconut

 

Step 4:  Heat oil and drop shrimp in
 

Step 5: Flip each shrimp after 2 minutes. It will be golden brown. 

 

Tapa 5: Prosciutto wrapped Scallops

Ingredients

10-15 scallops (bay or sea are fine. Just try not to get the tiny tiny ones)

5 slices prosciutto cut in half

10-15 toothpicks

Step 1: Wrap each scallop with a half slice of prosciutto

Step 2: Skewer each piece with a toothpick

Step 3: Place scallops on a foil lined baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Flip each scallop halfway through.

Tapa 6: Blue Cheese crusted strip steak bites

Ingredients

1 filet strip steak (or filet, ribeye or favorite cut of meat)

Blue cheese

Step 1: Cut the filet into bite sized pieces.

Step 2: Heat a pan and add meat.

Step 3: Flip meat after 1 minute (longer if you want more cooked meat)

Step 4: Top with a drop of blue cheese

Step 5: Remove from heat

Coconut Shrimp, Steak Bites, Asparagus, Scallops,

Stuffed Mushrooms

Crescent Rolls

Yum!

Seeing that it's December 20th, I probably won't post before the weekend, so have a wonderful Christmas, and a Happy New Year! Till next time!