Jalapeno Popper Dip

6-8 slices of bacon, diced and cooked crispy

2 8-oz packages of cream cheese, soft

4-6 jalapeno's, chopped and deseeded.  The seeds will make it fiery hot.

{I am going to use jarred jalapenos}

1 cup of cheddar cheese, shredded

1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese, shredded

1/4 cup diced green onion

Topping:

1 cup of crushed crackers ( I used Ritz)

1/2 cup parmesan cheese

1/2 stick of butter, melted

Preheat oven to 350.

Combine all of the ingredients into a medium bowl.  Stir well.

Transfer to an oven proof dish. The size of the dish depends on how thick the dip is.  The thicker the dip the longer it may need to warm up.  

Bake 20-30 minutes

until warm and bubbly.

Mini pretzel bites

Courtesy of get off your butt and bake

Take your roll, and cut horizontally and vertically.

You have four pieces.

Once your bites are all cut,

place on a large greased baking sheet.

Let rise until double in size.

Like this . . .

Pre-heat your oven to 375 Degrees.

Plop about 10 bites into that boiling water.

Toss gently so that all sides are shocked with the water.

You will boil for about 45 seconds.

Remove from water with a slotted spoon.

Let drain on paper towels.

Don’t worry if a few of them shrivel up funny.

They will recover nicely in the oven!
Remove them carefully from the paper towels.

Place on greased baking sheet.

Bake at 375 degrees for about 15 minutes.

Roll in Parmesan and sprinkle with garlic and Kosher Salt.

Oh yum!

Buffalo Chicken Dip

4 oz blue cheese dressing
4 oz ranch dressing
8oz cream cheese {brick}
2 cans canned chicken 12 oz each
1/4 C Franks Hot sauce
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

Soften cream cheese in microwave, add blue cheese and ranch. Mix together with chicken and Franks Hot Sauce, Bake 350 for 20 min. Take out cover with cheese and put back in oven for 10 min. Serve with big Fritos Scoops.

Crab and Cream Cheese Wontons

1/2 pkg wonton wrappers
1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese
1 c. fresh crabmeat (optional)
1 egg white, whipped
oil for frying

Put about 1 heaping tsp. of cream cheese in the middle of each wonton wrapper (if you are using crabmeat, mix the crab and cream cheese together before adding to the wonton wrapper). Brush egg white (or you can just use water) around the edge of the wrapper and fold over to seal (if you are confused on how to fold it, look on the back of the wonton wrapper package.. it will show you step by step how to do it). Fry in oil until golden brown. That's it! Serve with sweet and sour sauce combined with chili paste (or if you are a wimp and don't like it spicy, just serve with sweet and sour sauce).

Fried Pickles

So easy!

Start with as many dill pickles as you want
I bought the ovals, you can use the chips too.
Mix up a small amount of pancake batter and dip the
pickles it it first. Then dredge in a flour/bread crumb mixture
to which I added pepper
and fry in a fry daddy until golden
Dip in Ranch and enjoy!

Spinach Artichoke Dip

1 and 1/2 8 oz bricks of cream cheese
1 small jar marinated artichoke hearts, drained
1 pkg creamed spinach, thawed
shredded mozzarella cheese
shredded parmesan cheese
a dash of salt
fresh cracked pepper

spread in baking dish, sprinkle with more parmesan cheese and bake
@ 350 40 minutes

Cheese Ball

For some reason I always bring this to Thanksgiving, not sure why but now it is expected. Yet another easy one.

1 8oz cream cheese
1-2 cups shredded cheese
1/2 C. chopped green onions
chopped pecans

Combine cream cheese, cheese and green onions. Form into a ball and roll in the pecans

Famous Cheese Dip

This seriously is a MUST to every event I attend. Everyone requests it, and I look like a rockstar and it is soooo easy!

1 8oz cream cheese
2 cups shredded cheese
1/4 C. hot salsa
1/2 C. sour cream

combine all and bake @ 375 30 min, or put in bread bowl and bake in that.