Product Description

Cheese lovers have 50 mouth-watering reasons to celebrate! Professional chef Hallie Harron offers up a savory medley of hot and cold cocktail snacks, finger foods, appetizers, and other irresistible cheese bites. Recipes such as Fig and Goat Cheese Crostini, Roquefort Pear Tart, Spicy Ale Fondue, Baked Ricotta with Tapenade, and Marinated Mozzarella Wrapped in Prosciutto are sure to please at any gathering. With enticing full-color photographs and tips on how to select, serve, and cook cheese, this book gives you all you need to start every occasion with your favorite cheese hors d'oeuvres.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #795024 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

Review
Hallie Harron is one of the best cooks I know, so it's a treat to have this collection of hors d 'euvre ideas from her. If Hallie makes it, I know it's good. --Janet Fletcher, author, The Cheese Course and Cheese & Wine: A Guide to Selecting, Pairing, and Enjoying

No more ho-hum cheese and crackers! Hallie Harron has created 50 clever and delicious cheese-based hors d'oeuvres from around the world that are quick and easy to make. Plus her tips on cheese types, and how to store and serve them, are a valuable resource for anyone who appreciates cheese. --Mary Ann Esposito, host of PBS's Ciao Italia and author of Ciao Italia Slow and Easy

About the Author
Hallie Harron is a professional chef and restaurant consultant and also leads food and wine tours to Paris and Provence, France. She is the coauthor of Tomatoes & Mozzarella and has contributed to several other cookbooks and written numerous magazine articles.

Customer Reviews

A superb cookbook for cheese lovers and party hosts everywhere
Cheese Hors d'Oeuvres: 50 Recipes for Crispy Canapes, Delectable Dips, Marinated Morsels, and Other Tasty Tidbits is a superb cookbook for cheese lovers and party hosts everywhere. Simple, step-by-step instructions walk the reader through how to create such tasty delights as Mini Swiss Pinwheels, Italian Cheese Torta, Grilled Shiitakes with Taleggio, Parmesan Biscotti, and many more. Gorgeous, full-color photographs of each dip, sandwich, or baked cheese snack illustrate this handy and accessible recipe guide. Especially recommended for Wisconsin cookbook shelves!

Paired with a bottle of wine this book is indispensable.
If you love wine and cheese then this book is for you. The book does not give any wine pairing ideas, you'd have to find them on your own but what it does have is so many delectable cheese dishes that they're begging for a bottle of wine.

This is a small book, 96 pages and not a full size book. There are only about 50 or so recipes but they are wow. The Brie Bites were phenom and the Parmesan and Shrimp Crostini were to die for. This book is certainly different from The Cheese Plate which had 40+ cheeses I have never heard of and couldn't find at my local grocer. This book has cheeses that you can find in the cheese section of your grocery store. While that may seem plain once you dress them up with Ms. Harron's additions they become extraordinary.

There are not many pictures, the pages are glossy so they will clean up well. Would be a nice gift for a wedding shower given with a wheel of Brie, a cheese knife, cheese plate, etc. maybe even a jar of olive tapenade.

If you want to give gifts there were recipes for Parmesan Biscotti that you could make and the book has presentation ideas included. The Spicy Ale Fondue was excellent for our Super Bowl party and I served it with salted pretzel sticks and I made a beer bread from Tastefully Simple to go along with it.

Overall the cookbook delivers on what it says.

Creative Cheese Appetizers
Hallie Harron has provided fifty nice cheese recipes for easy entertaining at cocktail party or quiet TGIF gathering. If you love good cheese, then this is definitely a book for you. Don't miss the Mini Swiss Pinwheels. Elegant yet simple, these treats rely on frozen puff pastry to create a lovely appetizer to freeze for emergency use when unexpected guests come by. Her Spicy Cheesy Totes also rely on puff pastry to create a cute little "purse" full of melty, spicy cheese. They are the perfect foil for Margaritas on the terrace. With cheesy crostinis, beignets, tortes, and tarts, Harron provides recipes for fashionably cheesy small bites that will enhance any party.