First I cooked my own roasted red peppers to use in antipasto kabobs (see below). I knew the fresh version would taste much better than the jar version I could get at the store.
Using those peppers, I made antipasta kabobs. They were delicious and everyone loved them. An easy, no stress recipe, for those who don't like to cook.
Just assemble the items you are going to use in your kabobs. My choices were olives (black and green, cherry tomatoes, pepperoni (regular and turkey), mini fresh mozzarella balls, salami, and cooked tortellini marinated in Italian dressing. Then I compiled the kabobs. The great thing is that you don't need any special cooking skills to create them and they don't have to be perfect. You can use any combination of flavors that you like. Pick your own kabob ingredients. I even created some without olives because some folks don't like olives. I also created a few kabobs without the tortellini and substituted roasted red peppers and turkey pepperoni for the tortellini, salami and regular pepperoni. I decided not to marinate all of the items in Italian dressing. The flavors of the items are great already and I didn't think they needed the dressing.
The suggestion I found to use a melon baller to create the cucumber cups was genius! It worked great. I created my own recipe for the filling. It was a bit watery and I will definitely use different ingredients next time.
The cheesecake stuffed strawberries were the hit of the party. I used a melon baller to scoop out the strawberries and it worked just as well as the cukes. The recipe suggested using a pastry bag and star tip to pipe in the filling. I couldn't be bothered with that so I just filled a zip lock bag, sealed it and cut off one of the corners. It worked like a charm.
I served champagne punch that was inspired by Pinterest as well. The recipe I found called for champagne and vodka, which I loved. I used a mixed berry juice as the main flavor instead of pomegranate. There you have it, you too can throw a party using recipes found on Pinterest. Everyone loved the food. I didn't have any leftovers and a good time was had by all.
