Whipped Feta Dip

This is always a staple at the beach for us. We love it with all the fresh veggies!

8 oz. cream cheese

3 oz. feta cheese

3 T. olive oil

1 T. lemon juice

1 T. honey

1-2 t. red wine vinegar

2 t. fresh basil (or 1/2 t. dried)

2 t. fresh parsley (or 1/2 t. dried)

2-3 garlic cloves

1 T. red onion or 1 small shallot (or 1/4 t. onion powder)

1-2 jalapenos, seeded, roughly chopped 

salt and pepper to taste

Put all ingredients in a food processor and blend until smooth.  Can be kept in the refrigerator for up to a week.

Dill Dip

(McCall hope you don't mind me posting your recipe!)
This dip is so good, I had to refrain from licking the bowl

1 Cup Sour Cream
3/4 Cup Mayo
4-6 Green onions
1 TBL spoon Dill Weed
1 TBL spoon Bon Appetite seasoning (I didn't have this so I used celery salt and onion salt)
3 TBL spoons fresh Parsley

Creamy Lime-Cliantro Dressing

When I was at mom's, we made this dressing with the ranch mix from Penzey's, and it was so good!!  I think it's just as good as Cafe Rio's!


Creamy Lime-Cilantro Dressing
Recipe by Ourbestbites.com

1 pack (1oz) Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing Mix (regular or buttermilk, and ignore directions on the packet)
1C mayo
1/2 C milk (or buttermilk depending on which packet you buy)
1 lime
2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
1/2 C roughly chopped cilantro
1/4 C green salsa*
hot sauce

 Place milk, mayo, and ranch mix in a blender.   Juice the lime in there too, you should get about 2T juice.  Toss in the garlic, cilantro and green salsa.  Blend 'er up.  Sample it and add hot sauce to taste.  Make it several hours ahead of time to allow it to thicken.

*A note about green salsa:
There are several brands of green salsa available in most supermarkets and they have various degrees of heat.  One of the most commonly seen brands is Hernandez.  Hernandez brand is a lot spicier than any of the others I've tried.  Even their medium green salsa is way too spicy for my liking.  I like to buy La Costena because their  medium is actually really mild.  That way I get all of the flavor of the tomatillos but I control the level of heat with the hot sauce.  If you're not used to buying green salsa, make sure to sample it first before you put it in the dressing so you know what you're getting into!

Homemade Tartar Sauce

We had fish sticks from Costco for dinner, which are really good by the way.  We needed something to dip them in, so I made some tartar sauce.  You could probably substitute and do a lot of things to this, but I just used what I had on hand.

Mayonnaise (probably about 1/4 c.)

Dill pickle relish (a few spoonfuls)

Onion powder

Salt & pepper

I just added until the taste was right.  Turned out yummy!!