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Recipes Make a wide variety of delicious foods for your party guests. From "Weekend Entertaining" episode WKE-410

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Gruyere Croutons

Ingredients:

1 baguette
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 garlic clove, cut in half
8 oz. block gruyere cheese

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1. Shave 25 thin slices of cheese using a vegetable peeler.

2. Preheat the oven to broil.

3. Slice the baguette about one inch thick, and then place on a baking sheet.

4. Brush each baguette with a dab of olive oil, and then broil in the oven until light brown.

5. Remove the pan from the oven, and then rub each piece of bread with the cut side of a piece of garlic.

6. Turn each slice over as you set it back on the pan, and then rub each uncooked side of bread with fresh garlic.

7. Top each crouton with a thin slice of cheese.

8. Broil until the cheese has melted.

Rosemary Skewed Strawberries with Cointreau Whipped Cream

Ingredients:

1 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tbsp. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
3 tsp. cointreau
16 strawberries
4 straight rosemary branches
1 cantaloupe
8 small almond cookies or almond palmiers

Whipped Cream:

1. Whip the cream and confectioners sugar until it forms soft peaks.

2. Add the vanilla extract and cointreau, and then whip until it holds firm peaks.

Skewers:

1. Wash the strawberries, and then cut in half.

2. Peel the sprigs away from the rosemary branch—leaving the top intact.

3. Cut the cantaloupe into small cubes.

4. Alternate the half-strawberries and the cantaloupe onto the rosemary skewers.

Plating:

Top the cookie with a dollop of whipped cream, and then add the skewers onto the plate.

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