Oooooohhhh dips! One of my love languages! I LOVE dips as well and remember all that you talked about, because, well, we’ve eaten most of those together at one time or another!
The spinach dip has water chestnuts which always seemed so exotic as a child. Lol. I also regularly make your moms taco dip. It’s a game day favorite now! I also love making salsa and playing around with those flavors - roasted, fresh, cooked, etc.
My Trader Joe’s store has a whole DIP SECTION!! 💕 Each time I go I try a new one. Recently I picked up a blue cheese pecan dip and some pears. It was pretty delicious! I’m big on texture and balance of flavors. So this dip, some seeded gf crackers, sliced pears and quality honey were an amazing snack! I also love making hummus and dip all sorts of things in it. I like mine creamy, extra garlicky and very lemony! I’m a sucker for any cookbook that has a Dips and Spreads section! I have countless pinned dip recipes in Pinterest!
Jarlsburg dip. 💕 Has become one of my faves. I can’t give you exact measurements (one, because I never measure and two, it kind of depends on the cheese and type of Mayo)
I normally (yes, normally because I make this probably every 6-8 weeks) buy a chunk of good Jarlsbug that will make several batches. I hand grate the cheese on the large holes. The ingredients are the cheese, mayo, lemon juice and red onion. The amounts are kind of a preference on how creamy you like it. The cheese guy at Luckys market said “it’s just enough mayo to make the cheese stick together” so start with a teaspoon at a time. I start with about a cup of grated cheese. I chop my red onions very small (about a tablespoon worth) and squeeze some lemon juice over them, adding a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper. I feel like this mellows the onions. Then mix those in. If you need more mayo after that you can add it. It should just hold together. I use an avocado oil mayo and really like that flavor. Dukes is also great brand. It will last a week in the fridge - or so they say. It never lasts that long here!
I'm so hungry after reading this, Kim! So many yummy dips. I'm slowly finding ways to adapt them all to being dairy free... I need a good alternative for the Buffalo chicken dip I used to make.
Loved this! I giggled at "(Mom loved Lay’s, Dad loved Ruffles…symbolic of their incompatibility)."
Oooooohhhh dips! One of my love languages! I LOVE dips as well and remember all that you talked about, because, well, we’ve eaten most of those together at one time or another!
The spinach dip has water chestnuts which always seemed so exotic as a child. Lol. I also regularly make your moms taco dip. It’s a game day favorite now! I also love making salsa and playing around with those flavors - roasted, fresh, cooked, etc.
My Trader Joe’s store has a whole DIP SECTION!! 💕 Each time I go I try a new one. Recently I picked up a blue cheese pecan dip and some pears. It was pretty delicious! I’m big on texture and balance of flavors. So this dip, some seeded gf crackers, sliced pears and quality honey were an amazing snack! I also love making hummus and dip all sorts of things in it. I like mine creamy, extra garlicky and very lemony! I’m a sucker for any cookbook that has a Dips and Spreads section! I have countless pinned dip recipes in Pinterest!
Jarlsburg dip. 💕 Has become one of my faves. I can’t give you exact measurements (one, because I never measure and two, it kind of depends on the cheese and type of Mayo)
I normally (yes, normally because I make this probably every 6-8 weeks) buy a chunk of good Jarlsbug that will make several batches. I hand grate the cheese on the large holes. The ingredients are the cheese, mayo, lemon juice and red onion. The amounts are kind of a preference on how creamy you like it. The cheese guy at Luckys market said “it’s just enough mayo to make the cheese stick together” so start with a teaspoon at a time. I start with about a cup of grated cheese. I chop my red onions very small (about a tablespoon worth) and squeeze some lemon juice over them, adding a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper. I feel like this mellows the onions. Then mix those in. If you need more mayo after that you can add it. It should just hold together. I use an avocado oil mayo and really like that flavor. Dukes is also great brand. It will last a week in the fridge - or so they say. It never lasts that long here!
Fun post!! Maybe we should write a dip cookbook?
- a fellow dipster 🙂
I'm so hungry after reading this, Kim! So many yummy dips. I'm slowly finding ways to adapt them all to being dairy free... I need a good alternative for the Buffalo chicken dip I used to make.
Soul Mates- I ,too, go for the chips over cookies…
I too hate olives. Must be genetic. But I do love taco dip! Maybe you’ll find a batch when I visit!