Recipe: Perfect Not-so-Fancy Creamy Red Goat Balls or Fancy Basil & Goat Cheese Strawberries

Not-so-Fancy Creamy Red Goat Balls or Fancy Basil & Goat Cheese Strawberries. Add a few slices of basil to the goat cheese. Fancy Pants: Show off your plating skills. Not-So-Fancy Pants: Make them look good like when as a kid, Mama would dress up in her jean skirt and fuscia tube top for the Sunday church potluck.

Scatter kettle potato chips on a sheet pan and sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese and a teaspoon of any kind of dry BBQ rub or Old Bay seasoning. Beet Bruschetta with Goat Cheese and Basil. These colorful canapes certainly look the part with vibrant red beets, creamy goats cheese and fresh green basil to garnish. You can have Not-so-Fancy Creamy Red Goat Balls or Fancy Basil & Goat Cheese Strawberries using 4 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Not-so-Fancy Creamy Red Goat Balls or Fancy Basil & Goat Cheese Strawberries

1. You need 1 packages of small-medium sized ripe strawberries.
2. Prepare 1 packages of goat cheese (not crumbled).
3. You need 12 each of basil leaves.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of Tangerine or Raspberry vinegarette.

But it's not just about appearances. These morsels follow through with loads of flavor from the sweet earthy beets to the aromatic basil. Speaking of olives, tapenade — a paste made with a blend of olives, capers, and anchovies — is a key ingredient in a number of tasty appetizers. Spread it on top of slices of toasted bread and munch away.

Not-so-Fancy Creamy Red Goat Balls or Fancy Basil & Goat Cheese Strawberries step by step

1. DUH, wash the strawberries..
2. Slice them tops off (ya know, the green, leafy end?)..
3. Use a knife (NOT A BUTTER KNIFE. If you are scared of things sharper than a spork, please have someone else do this part for you.) to core out the center of each strawberry. If you are a fancy pants, you probably have some neat kitchen tool specifically designed to do that for you. Do your thang..
4. Add a small drop of the vinegarette to the hollowed out center of the strawberry..
5. For the Fancy Pants: Put the goat cheese in a piping bag. Use a medium size tip. For the Not-So-Fancy Pants (like myself): Put the goat cheese in a ziploc bag. Snip a small corner off the bottom and use as a piping bag..
6. Fill the strawberries with goat cheese..
7. Fancy Pants: Julienne the basil leaves. Not-so-Fancy Pants: Slice up the basil leaves..
8. Add a few slices of basil to the goat cheese. Fancy Pants: Show off your plating skills. Not-So-Fancy Pants: Make them look good like when as a kid, Mama would dress up in her jean skirt and fuscia tube top for the Sunday church potluck..
9. Serve cold..

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