{"id":11127,"date":"2016-04-23T21:38:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T21:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=11127"},"modified":"2020-04-16T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T18:53:00","slug":"party-trays-quick-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/party-trays-quick-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Trays &#8211; Quick &#038; Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheese and Sausage Tray<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 block cheddar cheese<\/li>\n<li>1 strip of aged summer sausage (casing removed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cheese Ball<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melt 1\/2 C cheddar cheese<\/li>\n<li>Mix with 1 pkg Cream Cheese<\/li>\n<li>Roll around in chives or nuts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Italian Bites &#8211; Use long toothpicks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pepperoni<\/li>\n<li>Tomato slice<\/li>\n<li>Banana peppers<\/li>\n<li>Provalone<\/li>\n<li>Black olive<\/li>\n<li>on a chunk of bread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quince Paste with Manchego<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slice quince into disks<\/li>\n<li>Place on top of Cheese slices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grape Tray<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buy nice plump grapes<\/li>\n<li>Cut them into little bundles of about 4-8 grapes each<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brie and Crackers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bring brie up to room temperature<\/li>\n<li>Cut into pieces and put toothpicks in each little piece<\/li>\n<li>Serve on a plate with a nice rustic cracker<br \/>\nNote: I like Ritz crackers, but not with this pairing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like putting ketchup on filet mignon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gruyere Dip<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Melted gruyere<\/li>\n<li>Cubes of bread on toothpicks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tips<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a crinkle cutter to give the appearance of something really fancy<\/li>\n<li>Use toothpicks to stage individual gnoshes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grated cheese has anti-caking agents in it, so it is good for melting things<\/p>\n<p>Sriracha has Xantham gum &#8211; acts as an emulsifier<\/p>\n<p>Sodium Citrate &#8211; emulsifier &#8211; Good nacho cheese<\/p>\n<p>Nacho cheese<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheese and Sausage Tray 1 block cheddar cheese 1 strip of aged summer sausage (casing removed) Cheese Ball Melt 1\/2 C cheddar cheese Mix with 1 pkg Cream Cheese Roll around in chives or nuts Italian Bites &#8211; Use long toothpicks Pepperoni Tomato slice Banana peppers Provalone Black olive on a chunk of bread Quince &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/party-trays-quick-easy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Party Trays &#8211; Quick &#038; Easy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection","category-beatitudes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11127"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11132,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11127\/revisions\/11132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}