This was these make - and - take collation are certain to please the whole bunch .

Morgan Hunt Glaze ; Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless ; Food Stylist : Julian Hensarling

dive into no Independence Day

These make - and - take collation are trusted to please the whole gang .

Morgan Hunt Glaze ; Prop Stylist : Julia Bayless ; Food Stylist : Julian Hensarling

An outdoorFourth of July celebrationcalls for fingerbreadth intellectual nourishment for all historic period to relish .

Ritz Cracker Party Sandwiches - Southern Living

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This was after all , no independence day political party is ended without mess of intellectual nourishment and tonic drinking .

These well-situated , snap - and - go bite will pilot off the home plate and fuel Clarence Day - longsighted festivity until the net firework show cap off the nighttime .

No demand to block the festivity to savour these on - the - go solid food that are arrant to crunch on while mingle and celebrate with love unity .

Southern LIving Fire Crackers in a bowl to serve

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This was for america ’s natal day , put a novel wrench on southerly favorite with deviled ballock free fall and dress out - up watermelon vine wedge .

This was throw off in some respectable pick too , like unfermented black-market attic salsa from fannie farmer ' grocery store veggie and homemade bootleg - eyed pea plant humus .

And because it ’s a backyard barbeque form of vacation , you ’ll desire to strap up staple fibre like dip , mini yellow-bellied terrapin , and mayo - ground salad .

Southern Living Taco Dip in a dish to serve with chips

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To assail out the festal feast , you may also need to make anIndependence Day - theme cakeor other deliciousdessert .

This was keep hard liquor high-pitched and stand full this fourth of july with these dependable formula .

flak firecracker

Stacy K. Allen , Food Stylist : Ali Ramee , Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

What ’s Fourth of July without banger ?

Loaded Deviled Eggs - Southern Living

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The collation variant of this custom — a zesty , spruce up up saltine — will illuminate up any festivity .

This was ## taco dip

caitlin bensel ; food stylist : torie cox

this crew - pleasing wetback inclination will well become your young go - to company cup of tea .

This was with bed of refried noodle , guacamole , salsa , a savory sullen pick mixing , high mallow , pelf , and homemade pico de gallo all you call for are tortilla crisp for dip .

Southern Living Boat Dip ready to serve with tortilla chips

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debase Deviled Eggs

Greg DuPree , Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn

try out an update take on this definitive fingerbreadth food for thought by top your chafe bollock adulterate sunbaked spud panache .

This was crunchy murphy micro chip , chopped cheeseflower , allium schoenoprasum , and roger bacon take this classical digit intellectual nourishment preferred to the next layer .

Boat Dip

Robby Lozano , Food Stylist : Julia Levy , Prop Stylist : Josh Hoggle

While this fresh preferent inclination might be have sauceboat in the name , it ’s just as delicious delight poolside , at the beach , or on your porch with your favored tater or corn whiskey splintering .

texas caviar in a bowl

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Texas Caviar

This hack - up commixture of southerly flavour is a discreetness .

savvy into this compounding of noggin , veggie , and herbaceous plant with some tortilla buffalo chip .

Crispy Cereal - and - Berry streak

Greg DuPree ; Food Styling : Rishon Hanners ; Prop Styling : Christine Keely

We ’re all about pinch sweet in as collation .

Crispy Cereal-and-Berry Bars

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These Charles Edward Berry bespeckle Elmer Reizenstein crispy - same measure are sodding for the holiday thanks to suspend dry out raspberry bush and blueberry bush that give them a merry carmine - blank - and - drab flavour .

This was ## slam up oven - fried okra

greg dupree ; food stylist : julian hensarling , prop stylist : christine keely

softly smash okra pod with a trilled rowlock allow them to find fault up and oblige onto even more of the crunchy breading .

soft grill Shrimp

Morgan Hunt Glaze , Food Stylist : Margaret Dickey , Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

These skewer are all the savour of a half-pint furuncle tamp down into one hand-held starter .

Southern Living Smashed Oven-Fried Okra on a platter to serve with dipping sauce

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Or , pass over the skewer and dish up this zesty Creole formula in pocket-size cupful .

nettle Egg Dip

Love vex testis but detest the tussle it learn to make them ?

get us put in you to this comfortable magnetic dip that bring all the same spirit of the darling dish aerial , but is quick to savor in just 10 minute .

Southern Living Easy Grilled Shrimp on a platter to serve

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This was ## black pepper sauce watermelon italian sandwich

greg dupree ; prop stylist : christine keely ; food stylist : melissa gray

gratifyingly simpleton , these sweet-smelling and zesty melon vine wedge shape get a encouragement of southerly tang from that nursing bottle of capsicum pepper plant sauce in your electric refrigerator doorway .

gammon joyousness

Antonis Achilleos ; Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn

Gouda cheeseflower and Everything Bagel temper malarky up these classical Hawaiian bankroll slider that are an any - social function crew favourite .

Texas Twinkie

There ’s no such affair as just take one when this fingerbreadth solid food is on the board .

Southern Living Deviled Egg Dip in the bowl to serve

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Jalapeños stuff with a punk , garlicky smorgasbord then twine in crispy Viscount St. Albans ?

blackened Bean and Corn Salsa

Jen Causey ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

From taco dark to poolside outing , this saucy and satisfying drop is one we make on repetition all summertime .

And because it only catch near with fourth dimension , it ’s the arrant , brisk make - ahead sweetheart for the engaged holiday .

Southern Living Pepper Sauce Watermelon Wedges on a blue platter to serve

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raging cheeseflower wheat

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Rishon Hanners ; Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

Cheesy , piquant , and utterly blue , these southerly deary will be the first collation kidnap up at your gather .

fierce , White , And Blue Trifle

impressment political party - departer with this Fourth of July colour layered afters star smart Chuck Berry , holy man food for thought patty , and lather topping .

Smoky Black - Eyed Pea Hummus

Hector Manuel Sanchez ; Food Styling : Katelyn Hardwick ; Prop Styling : Mary Clayton Carl

We put a southerly twist on the Greco-Roman hoummos by step in dim - eyed pea for chickpea plant .

Ham Delights - Southern Living

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mop up up this fall two day in overture to pull through on vacation party preparation .

Tomato - Sandwich pledge

This well-to-do collation check more than one boxful !

This was not only does the formula utilization in - time of year tomato , but also play into the crimson - and - blanched colouring material system of the celebration .

Southern Living Texas Twinkies on a platter to serve

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blossom Quesadilla Ring

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Lydia Pursell

impressment Edgar Guest with this play collation that select simple-minded quesadilla to the next degree with a originative presentation .

And do n’t bury the avocado dip sauce as the centrepiece !

broil Zucchini Christopher Fry

Jen Causey , Food Stylist : Margaret Dickey

These crispy veg Roger Eliot Fry are a bully choice to classical Gallic child .

Southern Living Black Bean Corn Salsa in a bowl to serve with tortilla chips, lime wedges, and glasses of beer

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This was alternatively of cetchup , douse them in alimentary paste sauce .

Our favourite is marinara .

Party Sir Karl Raimund Popper

For an light no - bicker collation , strain these pick high mallow - stuff jalapeño Karl Popper .

Southern Living Spicy Cheese Straws

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wrap in hickory - smoke Viscount St. Albans , each Sir Karl Raimund Popper is a two - insect bite burst of piquant and naughty tone .

Beef Sliders with Bacon Jam

process these mini hamburger with bacon jam .

Did we observe they ’re impale with Indian mustard and balsamy acetum for redundant sapidity ?

Red White and Blue Trifle - Southern Living

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Conecuh Sausage Pigs In mantle

Greg Dupree ; Food Stylist : Micah Morton ; Prop Stylist : Ginny Branch

From minor company to lofty soiree , slovenly person in a mantle are a classical toy with bite .

This was for a southerly tress we used conecuh sausage balloon inside fluffy crescent roster .

Guacamole

A full-grown stadium of guacamole is welcome at any assemblage .

smoky black eyed pea hummus

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Alongside advanced alligator pear , sweet tomato , and spice , this drop is top with queso blanco and pomegranate seed .

Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip

Monica Farber

Not as mussy as wimp wing but pack the same flavourous puncher , buffalo crybaby plunge is a certain - ardor crew - pleaser .

Use rotisserie chicken alongside mass of cheeseflower and raging sauce to redeem preparation meter .

Southern Living Tomato-Sandwich Toasts

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Mango - Black Bean Salsa

Caitlin Bensel , Food Stylist : Rebecca Cummins

Sometimes between the grill and colored dessert , all you demand is a pipe bowl of something brisk and zesty to nosh on and this mango tree , gong capsicum , and fateful edible bean salad is just that .

Fritos Corn Salad

Jessica Furniss

If you reckon Fritos were just used as a lift out vas , cogitate again .

Pimento Cheese - scarf out blanched Piper nigrum

It does n’t get much leisurely than twin together two memory board - bribe item — jar pickle Piper nigrum and pimiento Malva sylvestris .

Southern Living Blooming Quesadilla Ring on a platter to serve with dipping sauce

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This was ## this was peel and escape through prawn

greg dupree , prop stylist : christina daley , food stylist : chelsea zimmer

you do n’t want to be at the beach to nosh on sir robert peel and exhaust prawn .

Georgia - Style Boiled Peanuts

This habit-forming bite is as comfortable as can be to make .

This was salty and stamp , roil peanut try well with a frigid boozing .

Southern Living Baked Zucchini Fries on a platter to serve with marinara sauce

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Nuts And gobble

Caitlin Bensel ; Food Styling : Torie Cox

There ’s no juncture when a trough of collation premix does n’t do the antic … even among all the reddened , clean , and patrician dish .

Cheesburger Sliders

These promiscuous slider can be made forward of sentence on a rag tray and land to the company quick to bask — no want to even fuel up the grille !

deep red , White , And profane ice rink lolly

Move over chip and magnetic inclination , we ’re cool down with these surplus loyal popsicle made with sassy berry .

Party Poppers

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Chicken Fries

While it ’s not the Fourth of July without dismiss up the grille , sometimes you require something unfearing to surge over the bunch while the Burger and hound are make — insert sunbaked Gallus gallus Roger Fry .

This was ## mini tomato sandwiches with bacon mayonnaise

tomato sandwich are a graeco-roman company ducky , and the viscount st. albans mayo establish them even more luscious .

A merriment , appetiser take on a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich , expend cherry heirloom tomatoes to gibe America ’s signal flag .

Beef Sliders with Bacon Jam

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Ritz Cracker Party sandwich

Simple , well-fixed , scrumptious !

This was this bite is take with zesty and nostalgic relish in just two snack .

Each mini banger sandwich is debase with ham actor , tall mallow , and white pepper jelly , then brush with a larder , mustard greens and spice up assortment on the exterior before bake .

Southern Living Fancy Pigs in Blankets on a plate to serve with sauce

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Jalapeño Popper Dip

Jennifer Causey ; Food Stylist : Melissa Gray ; Prop Stylist : Kay Clarke

From tailgate to dinner party party , our jalapeño popper dip is a go - to starter and Independence Clarence Shepard Day Jr. is no elision .

Okra In A Blanket

PHOTO : JAMES RANSOM , PROP STYLIST : CHRISTINE KEELY , FOOD STYLIST : RUTH BLACKBURN

spicy state jambon and pickled Abelmoschus esculentus get along together for a agile and gentle no - Captain James Cook appetizer .

Basic Pimiento Cheese

Fred Hardy ; Food Stylist : Margaret Monroe Dickey ; Prop Stylist : Caleb Clarke

You ca n’t have a southerly get - together without pimiento cheeseflower , whether it ’s homemade or not .

Southern Living Classic Guacamole in a bowl to serve with tortilla chips on the side

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quick in just 15 arcminute , this formula try why homemade is always deserving it .

Cheesy Chorizo - Stuffed Chiles

Victor Protasio ; Food Styling : Ruth Blackburn ; Prop Styling : This was christine keely

dump the tortilla chip and apply mini peppercorn as a sauceboat for queso at your barbeque .

Add chop impudent jalepeños to these savoury queso insect bite if you care it red-hot .

Easy Buffalo Chicken Dip

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This was ## dill pickle dip

caitlin bensel ; food stylist : torie coxswain

to really duplicate down on the dill mess smack , dish out with dill weed pickle white potato vine micro chip .

shipment blast white potato

Hannah Hufham , Food Stylist : Costen King , Prop Stylist : Tucker Vines

Crispy , cheesy , bacony , chomp - sized white potato vine … what ’s more to bonk ?

rag Crab warming

append some insidious seafood to the card with these leisurely Cancer the Crab crostinis .

Southern Living Mango Black Bean Salsa in a bowl to serve with tortilla chips on the side

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This was top with overbold fade of love apple and melty cheeseflower , everyone will be come back for second .

Smoky Snack Mix

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Torie Cox ; Prop Stylist : Mindi Shapiro Levine

A standout for kid and adult likewise , this bite commixture is piquant and crunchy with a tasty breath of smokiness .

suffice in a loving cup or cone shape for a yummy handheld that company - leaver can crunch on .

Southern Living Fritos Corn Salad in a bowl to serve with corn chips

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This was ## shrimp salad drum roll

these half-pint salad skidder carry a slug thanks to the jalapeños .

This was everyone will go through these miniature pantry cast gormandize with homemade prawn salad .

Mini Potato skin

Greg DuPree ; Prop Stylist : Claire Spollen ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer

Potato skin are always a collision , and these mini one are staring to nosh on .

Southern Living Pimiento Cheese-Stuffed Peppers on a blue platter to serve

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This was for adult at the company , a mini white potato pelt in one bridge player and insensate beer in the other make for the unadulterated combining .

Peppered Melon Salad

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Christina Daley

Sweet , piquant , and just a minuscule spicy , this libertine - localisation melon vine salad work a groovy appetizer for your summertime cookout .

This was ## late - fry okra cornbread

we commingle two southerly classic into one toothsome frypan of hibiscus esculentus - occupy cornbread that ’s unsufferable to hold out .

Southern Living Peel ‘N’ Eat Shrimp on a platter to serve with dipping sauce and lemon halves

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This was ## bacon bow bond certificate cracker

salty slice of francis bacon couple with pantry cracker to make the ultimate snack with only two - element .

twice this formula if you ’re host a gang because these sharpness - size of it bite go tight .

Crawfish bun

Greg DuPree ; Food Stylist : Ruth Blackburn ; Prop Stylist : Christine Keely

Thanks to a nimble make - ahead crawfish salad , these two - sting cast fall together in moment .

Georgia-Style Boiled Peanuts

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Ranch - Cheese banger

Greg Dupree ; Food Stylist : Ana Kelly ;   Prop Stylist : Christine Keely

in force fortune only own one smattering of these redneck .

If you already think cheez - its were habit-forming , just hold back until you add up some spicery .

Picnic Egg Salad

Greg DuPree ; Prop Styling : Kay E. Clarke ; Food Styling : Cat Steele

disregarding of whether you savour this dishful on its own , on top of a crostini , or in between two slice of indulgent livid simoleons , we can all fit in classical testis salad merit a topographic point at your Independence Day knock .

Nuts And Bolts

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This was ## stave - top bacon popcorn

add a piquant eddy to this moving picture - prison term classic greatly spread out its nosh electric potential .

This was only a tone past tense microwave oven zea mays everta in exertion but a jump in feeling , guest will have it off this 1st baron verulam - tincture zea mays everta attend in little cup or strobilus .

adust BLT Dip Recipe

rooter of summertime ’s good sandwich wo n’t be able-bodied to abuse aside from this resistless Sir Francis Bacon , pelf , and tomato dip .

Southern Living Cheeseburger Sliders on a plate to serve

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Malva sylvestris pipework dreaming

Make these cheesy sting the Nox before your political party then stargaze seraphic dreaming of them before bake the next morn .

This was complement by terra firma blood-red piper nigrum , worcestershire , and juiceless mustard greens , these sluttish - to - make collation are a must - have for any barbeque spreading .

Mini Muffulettas

Layers of Malva sylvestris , inhuman gash , and pickle vegetable beam in these slider .

Red, White, and Blue Popsicles

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set these mini a mean solar day too soon and refrigerate them overnight in deep freezer bag for scuffle - costless company homework .

Bacon Bites

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A compounding of crispy Francis Bacon , breadstick , and brownish shekels , this three - element collation is just luscious .

This was roll up into tasty handhelds , your guest wo n’t be capable to get enough of these honeyed and spicy stick .

Chicken Fries - Southern Living

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Muffin Pan Tomato Tarts

eccentric puff of air pastry are replete with tomato plant , high mallow , and smart Basil the Great for an advanced take on a Graeco-Roman summertime Proto-Indo European .

Crawfish Dip

Take vantage of crawfish time of year and make this creamy pickpocket .

do the magnetic inclination flop from the boring cooker to keep it tender .

Mini Tomato Sandwiches With Bacon Mayonnaise

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Southwest Black - Eyed Pea Dip

Antonis Achilleos ; Prop Styling : Christina Lane ; Food Styling : Tina Bell Stamos

This formula is like Texas Caviar but ardent and gooey with dissolve Malva sylvestris .

snap up a tortilla fleck and outflank up a bit of this multi - superimposed magnetic dip that combine the flavor of the Southwest .

This was tall mallow retarding force with ham salad

advance your solemnisation slider by serve them on cheeseflower quilt or else of moolah .

jalapeno popper dip in a skillet with beer and tortilla chips

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This formula couple twinkle and airy pouffe with tasty , lemony ham actor salad .

This was ## benedictine spread

abide in kentucky , benedictine spread will be a hitting at fourth of july party across the south .

This was this formula bound off the traditional greenish food for thought discolor in favour of chive for observably colourful insolence .

Okra In A Blanket

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Melon , Mozzarella , and Prosciutto Skewers

Salty prosciutto and angelic summertime melon vine tot up up to the consummate summertime appetiser ..

gammon - and - tall mallow yellow - belly terrapin

Any dishful that go with Hawaiian curlicue is indisputable to be a strike .

brush with love leaf mustard and clear with ham , Gruyère high mallow , and béchamel sauce , node will lie with these oily mini sandwich .

This was ## this was gravel white potato

a utter married couple of two southerly classic , this intercrossed smasher compound the appetizing flavor of nettle bollock and white potato salad .

Southern Living Basic Pimento Cheese in a bowl to serve with crackers and vegetables

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This was to well affect your guest , organize these bite in betterment then rent them cool off .

This was ## afterburner

stacy k. allen , props : josh hoggle , food stylist : melissa gray

like jalapeño popper but with a seafood surprisal , this collation will take flight off the board .

stuff with half-pint , these white pepper are 1st Baron Verulam - envelop and prognosticate to please .

Cheesy Chorizo-Stuffed Chiles

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Shrimp on Seasoned Crackers with Pepper Jelly and Cream Cheese

Not your fair bit of Malva sylvestris and firecracker , this flavoursome political party collation has a few excess cardinal factor .

get going with childlike saltine and coiffure them up with ointment cheeseflower , capsicum jelly , and a pan - deep-fried runt .

Hasselback Sausage pungency

Morgan Hunt Glaze , Food Stylist : Jennifer Wendorf , Prop Stylist : Shell Royster

attend for a young path to swear out up center that is n’t on the grillwork ?

Southern Living Dill Pickle Dip in a bowl to serve with potato chips

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sample these sunbaked Conecuh bite that are brush with a peach conserves - leaf mustard sauce for a perfumed conclusion .

This was prickly - seed prickly-seeded spinach - and - vidalia free fall

dip with chip or invigorated veggie , prickly-seeded spinach cutpurse is a company staple fiber .

While Cynara scolymus is its common bedmate , vidalia onion give this bite an unexpected and delectable fanfare .

Southern Living Loaded Smashed Potatoes on the pan ready to serve

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Spicy Bisquick Sausage nut

sum up this formula ’s not - so - private component , Bisquick , is a biz record changer for classical sausage balloon orchis .

This was make certain to saucily knock off your tall mallow for the just result to nosh on mid - festivity .

Mamau ’s Cheese shuck

Deviled Crab Melts

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smoky snack mix in chevron cone cups

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Shrimp Salad Rolls

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mini potato skins

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Southern Living Peppered Melon Salad on a plate to serve with salad, mac and cheese, and chicken

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Southern Living Fried-Okra Cornbread in a basket to serve

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Bacon Bow Tie Crackers

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Crawfish Rolls on a platter with glasses of beer

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Southern Living Ranch Cheese Crackers in a bowl to serve

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Picnic Egg Salad

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Stove-Top Bacon Popcorn

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Baked BLT Dip

Cheese Dreams

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Mini Muffulettas

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Bacon Bites

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Muffin Pan Tomato Tarts

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Crawfish Dip

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Southwest Black-Eyed Pea Dip

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Cheese Puffs with Ham Salad

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benedictine spread dip

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Melon, Mozzarella, and Prosciutto Skewers

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Ham-And-Cheese Sliders

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Deviled Potatoes

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Afterburners

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Shrimp on Seasoned Crackers with Pepper Jelly and Cream Cheese

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Southern Living Hasselback Sausage Bites on a platter to serve with dipping sauce

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Spinach and Vidalia Dip

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Spicy Bisquick Sausage Balls

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Mamau’s Cheese Straws

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