College Football Saturday Tailgate: Spinach & Artichoke Dip

After a bye week last week for our Huskers, we’re happy to have some Husker foot­ball to watch today! And, really excited that the game is on at our house (we don’t have cable), so we’re look­ing for­ward to a lit­tle home­gat­ing. One of our favorite new home­gat­ing recipes is the Spinach & Arti­choke Dip I made for the BIG Ohio State game a cou­ple of weeks ago! Seri­ously, so good! It’s just about as good as any I’ve had in a restau­rant and was really easy to make! And, all the veg­eta­bles in it makes it healthy, right?!

Ingre­di­ents:

- 2 C frozen spinach thawed
– 2 C mar­i­nated arti­chokes, chopped
– 2 8 oz. pack­ages of cream cheese (I use the 1/3 lower fat vari­ety)
– 2 C sour cream (I used light)
– 1 to 2 C shred­ded Parme­san cheese (depend­ing on how cheesy you like it)
– 8 oz. shred­ded Mon­terey Jack cheese
– 1 C sweet onion finely chopped
– 1 stick butter

To make:

1. In a large pan (mine was almost like a Wok), saute’ the onions in but­ter. I let it go until the onions started get­ting brown–YUM! 2. While onions saute’, chop the arti­chokes. 3. Once the onions have just started brown­ing, begin adding other ingre­di­ents to the pan. Start with spinach, then add the cream cheese. As it starts melt­ing add in the sour cream, parme­san cheese, and arti­chokes. Make sure to blend and mix well after each addi­tion. It will start look­ing some­thing like this:

And then, will end up look­ing like this:4. Once every­thing is melted and mixed together well, trans­fer to a bak­ing safe dish (this fit per­fectly in my 2.5 Q dish). And, top with shred­ded cheese.5. Then, bake on 350 in oven until cheese is bub­bly or microwave on high for about 5 min­utes! Serve with bread, tor­tilla chips, or even fresh veg­gies. SOOOOO good!!! Now, it’s YOUR turn! It’s week 6 of the Col­lege Foot­ball Sat­ur­day Tail­gate link party and I can’t wait to see what you’ve been up to!!

 So, share your favorite tail­gat­ing recipes, foot­ball fun foods, foot­ball crafts, tail­gat­ing par­ties, fun foot­ball traditions–basically any­thing foot­ball related (espe­cially col­lege)!!!
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