Cucumber Dip {A Recipe}

Ok, I know summer is just starting, but if you’re starting to look for ways to use up cucumbers, I have a recipe you gotta try.  It looks like an incredibly healthy dish and a prime candidate for a “ladies’ get-together,” but just wait and see.  You may be surprised!

The Ingredients:

• 3/4 to 1 whole cucumber
• 4 oz. cream cheese
• 2-3 Tablespoons minced onion
• Seasoned salt to taste

The Process:

Peel the cucumber. 

Grate the cucumber into a medium-sized bowl (or a food-processor if you have one.)

Drain off as much liquid as you can. 

Mince the onion (if you cry, just remind yourself that it’s worth it!)

Cut about 4 ounces of softened cream cheese into 1/2-inch chunks.

Combine and mix onions, cream cheese, and seasoned salt with grated cucumbers.  Use whatever utensil you need to use in order to get the cream cheese blended together with the other ingredients – just a spoon won’t do the trick.  (I just use a fork, but a pastry blender might also work. A food processor will blend it together quite nice if you’re using one.)

It should look something like this—I know, kind of blah and unexciting, but you just wait!  You won’t be able to stop eating it! 

Right now you’re probably thinking “I thought she said it wasn’t a healthy ‘ladies’ get-together’ sort of dish.  Where’s the good stuff?”

This is Isaac the other night. He loves this stuff.    

The Catch:
You combine this cucumber dip with some potato chips, and ta-dah!! You won’t be able to stop munching!  I mean, it has cucumbers in it, so it is deliciously healthy, right?  (But it is oh, so ridiculously unhealthy at the same time!) This stuff is crazy addicting.

Serve it to your girlfriends if you want, but make sure to offer some to the guys in your life as well!  (You better have plenty of potato chips on hand!)