Hey KYH,
Believe it or not I have not had time to dive in and begin! I am going to begin vacation on Fri. the 4th & will have 10 lovely days off!!! I plan on doing some "tiny bites" for the 4th and I will let you know how I like them. Then on Mon. we are off to a KOA for Mon. thru Fri. camping trip and I can't wait! They have a catch & release pond, I am going to catch and release them into my frying pan hee-hee, just kidding, but one can dream can't she!?!

So anyway I will be letting you know after the 4th. By the way I am using your recipe for the fingers that you made for your wife's Comp. get together, they just sound fantastic, I know they'll be good!

Hope ya' all have a very Happy 4th of July, Cathy

Well, if you ask real nice between now and then, I might just share my recipe for Reuben Gougere.

That sounds veryyyy interesting, I would love to have the recipe please!!! "Pwetty Pweeze" as tweety bird would say!

Could you imagine an Oysters Rockefeller in a little "bread basket" or a nice crusty "little cracker boat" that would be neat! Now I am getting the picture about using your imagination KYH, and I thank you for that!

Thanks for that and the in-put about Martha's book, of-late I have begun to really appreciate her more than I ever had thought possible! At the Dollar General they had some DVD's of hers for like $3.00 and I bought one for my 8 yr. old's teacher as an end of year gift (I packaged it up with pretty dish towels and colorful spatulas) and it made a neat gift. But anyway the DVD sounded interesting and I went back and bought myself one and the recipes in it are really quite wonderful! So I will check out her book you recommended.

Cathy, before buying the old version, check out her new appetisers book, also from Clarkson Potter.

I haven't seen it yet, myself. But it's supposed to be even better than the original.