Superbowl or Dipbowl?

January 29, 2015/Mollie Flaherty/,

With my team playing the reigning Super Bowl champs this year, you would think I would be ecstatic for Sunday’s game. Sadly I’m not. Every year I stress for a week or two about what to serve for our annual Super Bowl party. After scrolling for some new recipes through cookbooks and Pinterest, I decided to reach out to some local friends for ideas. What I came to find out was I’ve been over thinking my Super Bowl menu for years. Almost every person I talked to makes a simple and delicious dip. So this year I’ve turned my Super Bowl feast into the Dip Bowl!

Bacon and Swiss dip is a favorite for Anne Bradley, marketing director at the Center for the Arts. This dip is super easy and quick to make. It’s best served hot, so save it as your last cooking project on Sunday.

Bacon and Swiss Dip
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4 ounces mayonnaise
1 1/2 cups Swiss cheese, shredded
8 ounces cream cheese
8-9 strips crisp bacon, crumbled
 
Preheat oven to 350 F. Set cream cheese out to soften to room temperature and further soften in microwave for 10 seconds, if necessary. Place mayonnaise in medium bowl. Next add swiss cheese and bacon. Stir in softened cream cheese.
Spread evenly into a shallow glass pie pan or small casserole (8×4″). Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Serve with Frito Chips.  

 

Caroline Pembroke, store manager at Stio, has Rotel Dip as her go to Superbowl snack. I made this the other night for a few friends and it was devoured within an hour.

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Rotel Dip 

1 pound of Jimmy Deans pork sausage, hot
1 pound of Jimmy Deans pork sausage, medium
3 packages Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 can Rotel Tomatoes, medium 
1 can Rotel Tomatoes, hot 
 
Brown the sausage, drain fat. Mix in cubed cream cheese until melted.
Stir in Rotel and serve warm with Tortilla Scoops 
 

If you really don’t feel like spending time in the kitchen there are plenty of places to grab some delicious dips and snacks. Swing into Jackson Whole Grocer and head to the kitchen section to fill up containers with their famous coleslaw, olives, and hot bar delights. If you are heading to Teton Valley, stop by Victor Valley Market and grab some of their popular spinach and artichoke dip!

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Mollie Flaherty

Mollie is a native Cape Codder who learned at an early age how to put a lobster to sleep, harvest cranberries, and dig for clams. After high school she followed her sense of adventure out west to the University of Wyoming where she graduated with marketing and communication degrees. She found herself making roots in Jackson, her fiance’s hometown, and using her sales skills combined with her love of anything delicious to join the Dishing sales team. She loves baking from scratch, large glasses of red wine, and hiking with her heeler, Newton. She’ll try anything, but remains a stuck up Cape Codder when it comes to seafood. If she didn’t catch it or see it come off the boat, don’t even try tempting her.

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