Active Time

　　10 minutes

　　Total Time

　　10 minutes

　　Editor's note: This recipe is from Erika Lenkert's book, The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining For Lenkert's tips on throwing a last-minute New Year's Eve party, click here.

　　This is about as easy as entertaining gets, with big bonus points for its refined presentation and luscious flavors. Hand-feed one — or 10 — to someone you want to seduce or friends you want to impress.

　　

Ingredients

Makes approximately 10 to 15 endives

　　1 head endive

　　1 cup of blue cheese, crumbled

　　1/2 cup spiced nuts , chopped

　　3 tablespoons honey

　　

Step 1

Slice off the base of the endive and separate the endive leaves, carefully pulling them off at the base so they're intact.

　　

Step 2

Lay the leaves on a large servign tray in a decorative pattern — such as concentric circles or diagonal rows.

　　

Step 3

Fill the base of each leaf (the strongest and whitest part) with a heaping teaspoon of blue cheese crumbles. Sprinkle each with nuts and top with a drop or two of honey.

　　

Step 4

Now slip into something fabulous.

　　Reprinted with permission from The Last-Minute Party Girl: Fashionable, Fearless, and Foolishly Simple Entertaining by Erika Lenkert. © May 2003 McGraw-Hill