
First things first: My neighbors are openly expressing their fear of a sudden gain in their collective weight now that I am bringing over the various and sundry dip recipes to try out. This is your basic, Midwestern, sort-of-but-just-barely, Mexican-ish dip. It’s decent for anonymously bringing to a party and leaving behind for others to finish. But, if you want people to know you brought it then I suggest finding ways to make it better.
A caveat before we get started: It calls for green peppers, but the only sweet peppers I had on hand were the Escamillo yellow peppers. So, for the sake of the cookbook photograph, I used jalapeños instead.
Here’s what you’ll need:
8 oz. Cream Cheese
8 oz. Sour Cream
1 Tbsp. Worcestershire Sauce
1 Tbsp. Taco Sauce
1 Pkg. Taco Seasoning (I used the low sodium version because mixes like this have way more salt than they used to)
1 Cup Lettuce, shredded
¼ Cup Onion, chopped
¼ Cup Green Pepper, chopped
2 oz. Can Sliced Black Olives, drained
½ Cup Cheddar Cheese, shredded
Cream together the cream cheese, sour cream, Worcestershire sauce and taco sauce. Spread in a serving platter.
Sprinkle taco seasoning, lettuce, onion, green pepper, olives and cheese on top.
Serve with plain or flavored tortilla chips.
Serves 6-8 people.
Isn’t that difficult to eat? Do you use two chips at once, one to hold the dip and the other to move the dip onto the first one?
Be that as it may, years ago I got sucked into the “Mad Men” party frenzy, I must have gone to at least half a dozen, and most of them were pot luck. This was no big deal for me, always eager to channel my midcentury culinary impetus, and I like scotch and martinis, so fine. But at one of them the hostess requested we dress for the period (no) and randomly assigned what food we were supposed to bring. I got “roast beef roll-ups” and the beginning of your recipe brought on this flashback. For a roast beef rollup you mix one part sour cream with one part cream cheese, smear on a slice of roast beef, roll it up, secure with a toothpick, and chill. When it’s party time you slice the roast beef log into three or four bite-size pieces and secure each with a toothpick.
It was…awful. I think I used too much sour cream/cream cheese per slice, maybe. I was kind of shocked at how bad something this bland and with such familiar ingredients was. Maybe if I had added your third ingredient, the Worcestershire sauce, it would have been better, but these were her directions.
It was pretty easy to eat, but then again I tend to use good tortilla chips–not any of those shitty Tostitos chips–so they’re thicker and less prone to snapping off in the dip. Plus, I used a spoon to serve out the dip onto plates which further makes the eating part easier.
I’ve had those roast beef pinrolls before, but I seem to recall that the cream cheese filling at least had some other stuff in there. Maybe chives or something to that effect.
I hope this doesn’t sound impolite, but I would definitely eat your dip.
Agreed.
Thank your neighbors for their service. Their weight gain has not been in vain.
Where is the avocado layer???? Taco dip needs some guac!
No. Not even for a Midwestern, fake taco dip.