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Menu (click for recipes)

• Deviled Eggs
• Parmesan Zucchini Sticks
• Sweet Potato-Feta Rounds
• Salmon Mousse
• Smoked Trout Salad in Cherry Tomato Cups
• Spicy Citrus Shrimp
• Chocolate-Dipped Strawberries
• Cannoli Tartlets
• Raspberry-Ginger Fizzes

Game Plan

Up to 3 days before: Toast walnuts and sesame seeds for strawberries.

Up to 2 days before: Hard-boil eggs.

Up to 1 day before: Make trout salad; marinate shrimp; make salmon mousse; cut up zucchini sticks; prepare cheese mixture for sweet potatoes; make cannoli filling; make raspberry-ginger fizz base.

Day of Party: Dip strawberries; grill shrimp; assemble deviled eggs; fill tomato cups and cannoli tartlets; bake sweet potato rounds and zucchini sticks; make fizzes.