How To Make A Creamy Spinach Dip

Vegetarian recipes are very popular today with many different types of people. You can learn how to make all sorts of dishes that you can enjoy eating and serving to others whether you are serving them at home to your family or you wish to prepare something for a special social event.

For instance, for your next get together you might like to learn how to make a creamy spinach dip. You can serve this dip with various types of vegetables on a vegetable tray. It is easy since you will be adding cut fresh crisp vegetable sticks of carrots, celery, tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, and so many others. Vegetables taste great after dipping them in this delicious creamy spinach dip.

You can also serve this dip with all sorts of different types of chips, such as corn chips, potato chips, plain or fancy crackers, bagel chips and various types of crusty crunchy breads as well as soft breads.

Making Easy Party Appetizers for Your Next Party

You can easily make some easy party appetizers for your next party while using this delicious and creamy dip. There is no cooking or baking to do while preparing it. You can make it ahead of time and then place it in the refrigerator until you need it. Making appetizer ahead of time helps save you time. You can whip this recipe up in hardly any time at all and then you will have all the time you need to prepare yourself and your party setting.

Recipe for Creamy Spinach Dip

What You Need

• 1 container sour cream 8 ounce
• 1 cup mayonnaise or plain yogurt
• ½ teaspoon dill weed
• ½ teaspoon celery salt
• ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
• ¼ teaspoon onion powder
• ¼ cup chopped green onions
• ½ cup pureed artichoke hearts
• ½ cups pureed water chestnuts
• 3 Tablespoons chopped bell pepper
• 3 cups thawed, cut frozen leaf spinach
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to Make It

Using a medium size bowl, add the sour cream, mayonnaise or yogurt, dill weed, celery salt, garlic powder and onion powder and then stir to combine together completely.

Stir in the green onions, artichoke, and water chestnuts and then add the bell peppers and the spinach. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir to blend thoroughly.

Cover with a lid or with plastic food wrap and then place in the refrigerator overnight to enhance the blending of flavors in the creamy spinach dip.

You can adapt this recipe by adding fresh herbs rather than dry ground spices. You can marinate the vegetables using your favorite marinade recipe or one tablespoon of lemon juice to enhance their flavors before adding them to this recipe. You can add various ingredients or remove any you do not like or even exchange one ingredient for another while preparing this type of dip. Taste it after removing it from the refrigerator after chilling the dip to see if you need to adjust any of the seasonings.

Raw Food Recipe: Good Ol’ Fashion Apple Pie

This is a classic recipe perfect for your holiday feasts and any day your family needs a healthy new twist on an old favorite!

Apple Pie Crust

Ingredients:

• 1 cup raw walnuts
• 1 tsp. vanilla flavor by Frontier
• ½ cup pitted honey dates, soaked
• ½ tsp. ground cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp. Himalayan salt

Filling Ingredients:

• 6 Granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
• 1 Tbs. freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 2 tsps ground cinnamon
• 1 cup pitted and soaked honey dates
• ½ cup agave
• 1/8 tsp. Himalayan salt

Directions for the crust:

Place the walnuts, vanilla flavor, dates, cinnamon, and salt in a food processor, and process until the mixture holds together and forms dough.
Press into a 9-inch pie pan to form a crust.

Directions for the filling:

Place the apples in a large bowl. Sprinkle with the lemon juice and 1 Tbs. of the cinnamon, and toss until evenly coated. Place the dates, agave, and remaining 1 tsp. cinnamon, and salt in a blender. Add a very small amount of filtered water, just enough to facilitate blending, and process until smooth. Add to the apples, and toss until evenly distributed. Spoon into the prepared crust. Slice, and serve.