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Recipes for Dips

by Elisabetta Parisi

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60 pages33 minutes

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Recipes for Dips gives you exciting recipes for just about every occasion. Dips can transform lifeless snacks into real objects of desire. You will find forty different recipes for tasty dips that you can add to your party and entertaining repertoire. There are also many suggestions for variations on the recipes so that you can make a whole new range of dips on top of the main ones given.

When you put your new dips out for family, friends or guests you will see your snacks disappear so fast that you will have to go and find some more. Their mouths will water and they will even beg you for the recipes so that they can make the dips for themselves.

The book is arranged into easy dips to get you started and then advanced dips for when you have the confidence to try them. The easy dips can also be made far more quickly. This allows you to put together a party spread real fast.

In addition to the recipes there are also many suggestions for what you should be dipping into your dips. Try out the different dippers to make your food more interesting. With this book you can make yourself the star of your entertaining or just simply the real star of home cooking.

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Publisher: Elisabetta ParisiReleased: Jul 2, 2013ISBN: 9781301740383Format: book

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Introduction

Dips tend to be the things that you pick up last minute, without much thought and a resignation that you will end up with the same old worn out recipes that supermarkets love to specialize in. You will take them home and often only eat a little of each with the rest left to go off in the refrigerator. It doesn’t have to be like this. You can make your own dips. There are lots of different recipes that you can customize and make into your own specialities. With these dips you will be lucky to have enough to last the night. Sometimes I have made a dip for guests and ended up eating it before they arrive! This means that another batch has to be put together really quickly, but what the heck food is to be enjoyed, right?

Dips can make a snack or an appetizer. If you take a dip to parties you know that you have a winner when it quickly disappears and people keep asking you for the recipe. This can be fun in itself. It is also fun making a variation on a dip and then trying it out on your family and friends. Needless to say, some will be keepers and others won’t. Despite failures there is always a need to try different things out. This may simply be due to wondering what will happen to the dip if you add a particular ingredient or maybe increase or decrease the amounts of it in a recipe. What ever you do, you will be creating something new. I guess what I am trying to say is that it is ok to experiment and that you don’t have to slavishly follow the recipes that are given here in this book.

Variations are suggested for most of the recipes where they are appropriate. This can help if you haven’t got the particular ingredient at the time. You can therefore use substitutions to give interesting different dips on the same basic theme.

A lot of people are interested in reducing the fat content of their dips. The main recipes given here use the standard ingredients rather than reduced fat ones. It is possible to substitute low fat soft cheese, sour cream or yogurt in the recipes but you have to consider the effect that it may have on the thickness of your dips. If you are happy with a runnier dip then it is not a problem at all. However, if you want to maintain the thickness you may have to consider adding thickening agents to the recipes as well. This may include corn starch and gelatine type products.

You may find that the quantities given in the list of ingredients may produce too much of the dip for your needs. As a result you may need to adjust the amounts to give the portion