Get festive with these New Year’s Eve Food ideas

Recently, I was talking with a neighbor about a dilemma she was having for New Year’s Eve: her and her friends need some sort of dinner, but nobody wants to cook and their group is too big for a restaurant reservation.

I’m guessing this could be quite a common issue, so I figured I would put together a board of New Year’s Eve appetizers that eats more like a light dinner, with cheese AND charcuterie AND seafood AND sweet treats AND even a simple homemade appetizer, if you want. 

While this board of New Year’s Eve finger food looks pretty epic, it actually consists of one item I made, a few things I heated up in the oven, and 98% stuff I bought at the store.

This post will give you a ton of ideas to put together the New Year’s appetizers spread of your dreams. The board pictured here is for a big crowd, but if your gathering is a little smaller, just cut it down to a few of your favorite things.

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Happy Thanksgiving Week! What is your strategy when it comes to Thanksgiving appetizers? Some see it as a chance to get creative on a day where the main menu is generally very traditional. I’m more in the camp of “ugh, I have to do appetizers, too?”

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I gotta say, it’s STILL not really feeling like autumn here in Detroit. Temperatures keep hovering around the 70’s, making shorts and t-shirts a very real option for late October (which is not really typical for this area).

It’s hard to get in the mindset of Thanksgiving menu planning and holiday parties and festive cocktails and New Year’s Eve finger foods when you’re still wearing shorts, you know?

Be that as it may, I forced myself to get into the kitchen and start brainstorming some easy entertaining ideas, because I want us all to be prepared with lots of great back-pocket options for when the holidays DO strike (whether the colder weather comes along for the ride or not).

These Roasted Veggie Party Crackers are the definition of back-pocket easy.

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If you grew up attending parties where the centerpiece of the snack buffet was a giant hollowed-out loaf of pumpernickel bread filled to the brim with creamy spinach dip  . . .  you might be from the Midwest. Or, wait.

Was that a Midwest thing? Or was it a 1980-1990’s thing? It’s hard to know, because the two are inextricably linked in my brain. In the 80’s and 90’s, I was growing up in the Midwest.

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