What is Your Favorite Snack Food to Make?

I have 2:

#1-

Soften 2 blocks of lowfat cream cheese.

Take a can of salmon, clean out all the yucky bits- skin, bones, etc. Smoosh up with your hands.

Finely dice onion to taste. Dump in a bowl together. Add about 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt & several dashes of Worchestershire sauce, mix well. Eat on crackers-I like Triscuit.

#2-

Brown 1 lb breakfast sausage & 1 large onion, diced. Drain well.

Mix up a double batch of Bisquick according to package. Dump in the sausage & onions, and about 2 cups os shredded cheese. I like 1/2 cheddar, 1/2 mozarella. Mix well. Cover cookie sheets with foil, lightly spray with non-stick spray. Drop biscuits by spoonfulls, bake till done. Eat for several days. YUM.

What do you guys like? Looking for yummy, easy snack recipes.

Heat a can of chilli with 1/2 cup hot salsa and about 1/2 lb of Velveeta.
Eat with tortilla chips. It’s about as low-brow as you can get and it’s fantastic.

I’m a simple gal - cheddar cheese and Ritz crackers.

Smoked Oysters, Italian Dry salami, mozzerella cheese on a Triscuit.

Cheese fries with sriracha-spiked ketchup.

Wow, OP, the salmon thing sounds GREAT! I’ll have to try that next week.

Mine is smoked oysters on whole-wheat Ritz crackers with a squirt of mustard. I’m salivating just thinking about it.

Trader Joe’s sweet potato fries with sriracha-spiked ketchup is probably my next favorite :D.

I just discovered that stuff. It’s kinda expensive, but I think I can modify dead cheap Valentina to simulate it.

Expensive? Sriracha?

Yeah, a giant bottle that lasts me 9-10 months is $4. If I remember it’s $2.50 at the Asian grocery. Unless you’re buying it pre-mixed, which in that case would probably be pricey.

Compared with Valentina ($2/liter) just about everything is expensive.

Ditto. Sriracha is about as cheap as you can get around here. I usually buy 2 bottles at a time.

Two snacks: the easiest is pouring half a bottle of Pickapeppa sauce over a block of cream cheese. Eat with Wheat Thins. The other is home-made Chex-Mix. Infinite possibilities.

Warmed tortilla slathered with a generous dollop of hummus or baba ganoush and garnished with a couple of pickled jalepeno slices and rolled up.

Little Darlin’s
Fresh bread sliced into 4 pieces. Toast one side lightly toast the other.
Fry up some bacon. Cut each strip into two pieces.
Slice kraft cheese slices into four pieces.
Place cheese and bacon on each piece of bread.
Place in oven on broil.

Good with soup.

Yup, it is pretty amazing. If you try it, let me know what you think!

Pa amb tomaquet. With jamon serrano, or boquerones if I can get them.

Peanut butter* and honey on toast. I am a woman of simple tastes.

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I do a variant of this. Spread cream cheese on each cracker, then a dash of Pickapeppa. Top with carrot shavings and fresh green onion.

Valentina tastes a good bit different than Sriracha. Valentina-spiked ketchup will taste fine, I’m sure, but Sriracha is thicker, spicier, a little sweeter, a lot more garlicky, and (perhaps most importantly) a good bit less vinegary than Valentina. Do yourself a favor. Give yourself the permission to spend the $3-$5 for a bottle of Sriracha. You won’t regret it.

And of course lately it’s been homemade salsa, dirt cheap to make in the summertime: seeded and chopped stem tomatoes, chopped vidalias (or red onions for more tang), chopped cilantro, salt and fresh lime juice. Jalapenos optional, served with Snyders of Hanover white corn chips. Almost as healthy as baked! Trader Joe’s, if you have 'em nearby, has baked blue corn chips which are pretty healthy.

Babybel cheeses in a pinch are always great with good melba toast, though it’s been so long since I’ve bought melba toast that I forget what kind I like :(.

ETA: Also, a little Sriracha goes a long way. Tabasco and the like I blow through. If you’re hesitant to buy it, try to go to an Asian lunch joint and take some to go in a small plastic container. They should have it on the counters.

Need to find it someplace besides Jewel. Mexican groceries? We have plenty. East Asian groceries? I may find more in Glen Ellyn, but they will charge the Glen Ellyn surcharge and Trader Joe’s stopped selling it.

Dude, when I get a job we have to go places and eat things.