Celebrations, football Sunday, picnics and family gatherings — every get together is so much better with delicious appetizers. Make enough of them and you won’t need a main dish!

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Here are five of the most popular, easy-to-make appetizers that everyone will love!

Crab meat and Cheese Dip

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Grape Jelly Glazed Meatballs Recipe

Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, onion, salt and egg. Mush together. Roll into 1/2 balls. Sautee in a large non-stick skillet until done. Drain juices off. Add chili sauce and grape jelly and simmer, gently turning on occasion, until the sauce turns into a glaze on the meatballs (about 15 minutes).  Makes 3 dozen.

  

Olive Tarts Recipe

Combine cheese and butter; toss with the other ingredients –except for the olives–to make a dough. Using a teaspoon, scoop a little dough into your hand and flatten it. Place an olive in the center. Surround the olive with the dough and roll in your hand like a meatball.
Place on a cookie sheet, very close together but not touching, and freeze them. Once frozen, either transfer them to a freezer bag or bake immediately on a cookie sheet, about an inch apart, at  400°  for 15 minutes.  Serve hot.

Artichoke Heart Dip

How to Make Pigs in a Blanket

Unroll crescent rolls. Cut each triangle in half. Roll one cocktail hot up in a triangle and place on a cookie sheet. Keep them 1 inch apart. Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 375° for 10-15 minutes. (Remove when lightly browned). Serve with ketchup, mustard or ranch dressing to dip in.