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Game-Day Entertaining: Tips for Easy Make-Ahead Dips + A Recipe for Garlicky Greek Yogurt Ranch Dip

Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2013 in Veggie Dishes Everyone Loves

Are you ready for the Final Four? Let’s get ready to ruuuumble!

Okay, I must admit: I’m not all that into basketball. But I am into any excuse for game-day food. I’m also not into toiling away in the kitchen while everyone else snacks happily in front of the TV. But I am into sitting in front of the TV with my friends and chowing down alongside them. Not into: prepping for hours and hours right before a party. Into: make-ahead, easy-peasy appetizers.

Garlicky Greek yogurt ranch dip plus tips for easy make-ahead dips | Kitchen Treaty

Garlicky Greek yogurt ranch dip

This is why I love dips. Dips are the quintessential make-ahead party food, and people not only love them, they sort of expect them. Plus, they’re oh-so perfect for making ahead of time.

Here are a few dip ideas and pointers that’ll help keep you happily hanging with your friends instead of sad and banished in the kitchen.

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White Bean & Kale Pesto Dip

White Bean & Kale Pesto Dip

Posted on Wednesday, December 5, 2012 in Veggie Dishes Everyone Loves

So, kale. Totally a nutritional powerhouse and everyone sings its praises to the moon and back, but you know what? It’s kind of a weird green. I mean, I think I dig it. I sure try to dig it. I’ve been working it into more and more dishes, like a kale & fontina mac & cheese recipe I’ve been trying to develop for, oh, months now, but can’t get quite right enough to share.

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