Sunday Snack

If necessity is the mother of invention, then is feeling peckish the father of snack creation? I made these up today when the cupboard looked bare. I totally love them.

1 cup whole dates
2 Tablespoons unsalted peanut butter
1 Tablespoon honey
1/16 teaspoon cayenne
pinch fine sea salt

1. Pit the dates. Using the back of a strong fork, mash the dates into a course pulp.
2. Mix cayenne and salt into peanut butter. Add honey and stir until blended.
3. Fold peanut butter mixture into date pulp. It should make a stiff paste. Taste for seasoning. When thoroughly blended, pinch a piece off and, using the palms of your hands, roll into balls about 1.5 cm or one-half inch in diameter.

Serve at room temperature.

Moroccan Appetizer Mystery

It looks delicious, doesn't it?

What do you think it is?

Place of origin: Morocco

Hors d'oeuvres in May

Cream Puff Dinner
comprised entirely of appetizers

country crackers
red lentil humous
crab cakes with tomato marmalade and cilantro
Thai shrimp cakes with sweet-sour plum sauce
Turkish carrot kofte with lemon and dukkah
Andean arepa with mozzarella and basil
Spiced lamb rolled in filo
Ethiopian-flavored chicken drumsticks
Grilled Swiss chard purses with mozzarella and prosciutto
Vidalia onion with parsley on challah

Skyy vodka, tonic water, and lime
White wine

Guests: Hal
Cooked in Sharon's new kitchen designed by Deborah