Tiny Food Party!: Bite-Size Recipes for Miniature Meals [Paperback]

Teri Lyn Fisher (Author), Jenny Park (Author)

Book Description

Release date: October 9, 2012

Hors d'oeuvres have a reputation for requiring frou-frou ingredients that are difficult to identify—let alone locate in a grocery store. (When's the last time you ate an amuse-bouche at home?) It's about time for an appetizer cookbook that has fun with the concept of tasting an entire meal in one bite!

With Tiny Food Party!, Teri Lyn Fisher and Jenny Park share super quick and easy recipes for little bite-size munchies—delightfully miniature versions of all your favorite foods! Thinly slice shallots, batter and fry 'em, add with a creamy buttermilk ranch sauce, and you've got dainty Bite-Size Onion Rings. Use mini cupcake tins to bake up sweet Little Cheesecakes! Or fill small rectangles of pie dough with Nutella and marshmallow, bake until crispy, decorate with icing—and sprinkles, of course—and you've got irresistibly charming Mini Homemade Pop Tarts.

Tiny Food Party! includes Adorable Appetizers, Itty Bitty Entrees, Pint-Size Desserts, and Teeny-Tiny Cocktails that you can serve in shot glasses or tea cups. With full-color photographs of every single recipe plus tips and tricks for seriously downsizing your favorite recipes scattered throughout, this lighthearted little cookbook is lots of fun!

Editorial Reviews

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“Kids love them, dieters won't resist them and all your guests will be charmed by these mini bites of everyone's favorite comfort food.”—Ladies' Home Journal
 
“The photos had my mouth watering, and the recipes really deliver—the mac 'n' cheese and bites and mini Philly cheesesteaks are amazing!”—First for Women
 
“If you're the hostess with the mostess pick up Tiny Food Party!.”—Woman's World

“This book made me want to throw a party.”—Sara Moulton, Good Morning America
 
“Tiny Food Party by Teri Lyn Fisher and Jenny Park serves up a visual feast of bite-size recipes for miniature meals that stray a bit from run-of-the-mill hors d’oeuvre...”—Entertainment Weekly's ShelfLife

“A cookbook that will make you say ‘awwwwwwww.’ This paperback collection includes recipes for familiar foods that have been scaled down in size but not in flavor or impact.”—Albany Times-Union
 
“...a delightful collection of petite appetizers, meals, snacks, and cocktails.”—Grandparents.com
 
“Tiny Food Party is the cookbook of every host's dreams.”—The Sun-News

“In this eye-catching collection, photographer Fisher and food stylist and recipe writer Park (coauthors, spoonforkbacon.com) offer party menus, equipment recommendations, and fanciful, easy recipes for miniature appetizers, entrées, desserts, and cocktails...a great choice for home cooks who enjoy casual entertaining...These adorable small-scale favorites—like Snacky Mac ’n’ Cheese Bites and Mini Homemade Pop Tarts—will thrill both kids and adults.”—Library Journal

About the Author

Teri Lyn Fisher is a photographer whose work has appeared in Rue, Anthology, and HGTV Magazine. A graduate of Le Cordon Bleu, Jenny Park is a food sytlist, recipe writer, and professional eater. Her clients include the California Wine Board and HGTV.com. Together, Teri and Jenny love to fill their blog Spoon Fork Bacon with recipes, drinks, and pretty pictures. They live in sunny Los Angeles. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Quirk Books; 1 edition (October 9, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594745811
• ISBN-13: 978-1594745812
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.7 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #5 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Crafts & Hobbies > Toys & Models > Miniatures
  • #8 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Meals > Appetizers

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Big tastes, tiny food- I love this book November 2, 2012

By Shala Kerrigan TOP 50 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

I'm going to be completely honest before I start gushing about the cute. I love tiny things, adore tiny foods, and love good food well made. It just delights me, well-made tiny foods are a joy to look at it and to eat.

Tiny Food Party! -Bite Sized Recipes for Miniature Meals by Teri Lyn Fish and Jenny Park is full of tiny, appetizer 1 and 2 bite versions of regular food. While the focus is on making things small, there is also a strong focus on making them well so they are as delicious as they are cute to make for truly impressive appetizers. A lot of the recipes could also be used in bento style lunches, tea party foods, or even a full meal for a dinner party which allows guests to try several different things.

The photographs are wonderful, the colors are bright and cheerful and the instructions are clearly written with American style volume measurements. A few of the recipes use common convenience ingredients, but most of them are made from scratch. The recipes have a nice gourmet/foodie flair with details and flavors like mini churros made with candied bacon in the batter and suggestions for 3 different dipping sauces.

Here's where I start squealing and clapping. Because those recipes? Are fantastic, clever and incredibly tasty. Shallots in a light, perfect batter to make tiny onion rings, perfect mashed potatoes piped in rosettes on tiny Shepard's Pies, miniature eclairs! If you look at the cover, you can see the little Caprese skewers with a Balsamic vinegar glaze. Under that are miniature toaster pastries. That recipe comes with a few suggestions for filling so you could make them to suit almost anyone's tastes.

One of my husband's favorite recipes, except for size (he feels like a giant when he eats tiny food) is the Country-style Eggs Benedict, I love that recipe too because instead of a Hollandaise sauce it uses a cheesy/garlic sauce that's a lot easier to make and that tastes fantastic.

There are also cocktail recipes for the adults. Little tiny mixed drinks served in shot glasses with gourmet twists and details to make them special and not just a miniature version of a grown up drink. Like the Bloody Marys use a Korean rice wine instead of vodka, and the glass is rimmed with bacon bits. It's a flavorful, spicy, gorgeously garnished mini drink. Adults with a sweet tooth will enjoy the Orange Creamsicles drinks with the honey and sugar garnish.

The authors worked small in very clever ways, and this is one of my favorite cookbooks this year. There are menu suggestions for various party themes, and lots of dessert recipes to go with all the main course and side dish recipes. The end of the book includes equivalencies for people using metric, and a good index to find things quickly.
[I received a complimentary copy of the book to review on my craft blog- Don't Eat the Paste. I received no other compensation, and my review is my honest opinion of the product.]

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Book To Break Your Promise Not To Buy Any More Recipe Books January 1, 2013

By Laura Freed

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I keep swearing I will NOT buy any more cook/recipe books - I hate clutter. I gave away most of my books and most of my recipe books because they are just all kind of the same. It seems most of the recipes I find and use lately are from online recipe websites. HOWEVER, I have broken my promise on a few books and this was one recent promise breakers and I'm SO GLAD I DID. I've made the candied bacon churros for a party and they were a RAVE - that is a recipe you are NOT going to find on an online recipe site (easily, anyway.). Almost every recipe has a fabulous drool worthy picture. They give great tips (an America style lager like PBR keeps onion ring batter light and mild in flavor)on most recipes. There are little party planner menu ideas to keep it simple - the only problem is I want to make EVERYTHING. From Chicken n waffles to comfort food like meatloaf and deep dish pizza to quirky food like sweet corn ice cream tacos. Oh, and there are even mini cocktail recipes in the back.
This is a MUST have on the recipe book shelf because it's so different from everything I own (and even pared down, I own 3 shelve-fulls).
Love it. LOVE IT!!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious and creative recipes!! October 21, 2012

By TristanR

Format:Paperback

I love this book! The recipes are so creative and I love the idea of itty-bitty and mini everything! So original. Can't wait to try the pop tarts, and mac and cheese bites, and philly cheese steak sammies, and mini bloody marys...I could go on and on. The pictures are beautiful, everyone who sees the book comments on how delicious it all looks. I also love the theme-party menu suggestions dispersed throughout the book.

Overall, I'm extremely pleased with my purchase and will definitely be buying anything else by Jenny Park and Teri Lyn Fisher.