Appetizer - Blog Posts

Appetizers and Snacks - Blackberry-Basil Skewers These light, simple appetizer skewers with fruit, cheese, and basil are sure to be a hit at your upcoming gathering or potluck.

Kachumbari Kachumbari is a versatile tomato-onion salad from Africa that is served as a salsa, appetizer, or side dish. It is quick and simple to prepare.

Italian - Quick Bruschetta Chicken Bake

Meatball - Grape Jelly Meatballs For a quick party appetizer, these grape jelly meatballs are made in the slow cooker using frozen cocktail meatballs, grape jelly, and chili sauce.

Tapas - My Own Famous Stuffed Grape Leaves Grape leaves stuffed with a mixture of rice, fresh herbs, and lemon juice make a delicious appetizer, or serve them with a Greek salad as the main course.

"Buon appetito..."🌻💋🍝

The Appetizer for Fuzzy

"Bart Kosko, the leading proponent of fuzzy thinking, has degrees in philosophy, economics, mathematics and electrical engineering but even in his book there is a clear-cut thesis that ties all this complex thinking together: to explore the paradigm shift from black and white to gray, from bivalence and binary (either/or) thinking to multivalence, a less simplistic but more accurate way of thinking that responds to life in matters of degree, integrating probability and ambiguity in all modes of operation. (Kosko, Bart. Fuzzy Thinking. New York: Hyperion Press, 1993.)

Fuzzy thinking demands that you increase your options. What are all the possible things or events or conditions that could occur as you explore something? You must use your imagination much more actively than usual. Fuzzy thinking comes from fuzzy math sets in which endless possibilites have been explored. So to unite fuzzy thinking with traditional logic, you need to know more, feel more and think more exhaustively.

Perhaps the word "fuzzy" is misleading for undergraduates. Gratuitous ambiguity due to laziness is not the goal, but rather an inclusion of degree, probability and ambiguity in the formulation of structures that respond to phenomena. In other words it is harder and more intellectually demanding to engage in fuzzy thinking. Kosko has a thorough understanding of traditional logic and its fallacies as well as all the specific scientific applications of fuzzy thinking.

Traditional logic, with all its artificiality, is based on language, but the irony is that the flesh of language is our bodily experience, the cries and sighs and gurgles of needs and wants that slowly grow into more complex sounds that usually connote more than they denote. Nature constantly speaks a language that is homospatial and homotemporal, layered and nonlinear in space and time, and this language still resides in our subconscious world of dreams. While expository writing necessitates so-called logical, grammatically correct sentences that grow into coherent, well-developed paragraphs integrated by a thesis, this type of writing should not exclude the multivalent nature of experience, of our bodies, our dreams and our environments. Clarity in expository writing is important so you must redefine words in the context in which you are using them but it's okay to struggle with solutions, to end with answers and to obfuscate a cause-effect relationship with a provocative "what if?" "

- Julia L. Keefer

Grilled Oysters with Fennel Butter - Appetizers and Snacks

Seafood - Shrimp - Tex-Mex Grilled Shrimp and Salsa Dip chili-seasoned shrimp into a homemade smoky grilled salsa with this recipe you can serve as an appetizer or entree.

Vegetable Salad - Simple Caprese Salad Fresh slices of red ripe tomato alternate with mild mozzarella cheese and pieces of roasted red pepper in an easy Italian salad that's great for a light main dish on a hot summer day.

Appetizers and Snacks - Shrimp - Caribbean Holiday Shrimp

Blue Bacon Stuffed Mushrooms - Appetizers and Snacks - Mushrooms A tasty appetizer is stuffed mushrooms with blue cheese, bacon, caramelized onions, and garlic.

Pesto Sausage Biscuit Bites - Appetizers and Snacks