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quick and easy appetizer #1

Tapenade Twists

With all the dishes you’ll be making for the big Thanksgiving feast, you need a couple of easy, quick, and tasty appetizers to go with the crudites. One of the quickest and easiest products to use is puff pastry.

Puff pastry can be purchased in the freezer section of the grocery store, usually near the pie crusts. Most grocery stores carry the Pepperidge Farms brand. Trader Joe’s also carries their own signature brand of puff pastry (you can pick up the tapenades there too). Both brands have two sheets of pastry per package, only one is needed for this recipe. Wrap well and refreeze the second sheet for future use.

Twisted Tapenade Swirls

1 sheet thawed puff pastry
3 tablespoons green olive tapenade
3 tablespoons black olive tapenade

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or Silpat mats.

puff pastry strips

Lay puff pastry on a lightly floured cutting board. Cut lengthwise into 11 strips, and cut those strips in half for a total of 22 strips.

tapenade pastry

Spread 11 of the strips with green olive tapenade and the remaining 11 with the black olive tapenade.

twist on mat

Twist each strip and place it on the prepared baking sheet, pressing down each end of the strips to keep them from untwisting.

Bake for 15 minutes or until puffed and golden. Remove to racks to cool slightly. Serve warm or at room temperature.

Makes 22


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2 comments

1 Rebecca Curtis { 11.19.09 at 10:43 AM }

Twisted tapenade swirls sound like the perfect nibble to keep the family at bay before Thanksgiving dinner! By the way, your wild mushroom potato gratin was outstanding (at Les Gourmettes cooking class last night)… I would like to have some right now!

2 Linda Hopkins { 11.19.09 at 12:31 PM }

Thank you Rebecca! So nice to have your smiling face in class. Happy Thanksgiving.

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