{Food Dish} Ultimate Guide: Dip Recipes

Dips are the quintessential party food, and I love everything about them. So I went on a quest to find all the best.

I love dip recipes. There’s some sort of harmony in that they’re all served in a bowl with some sort of other food that gets dunked into them, but there’s so much variety that you can consume a full-course meal in dip form. To satisfy my dip craving, I set out to round up the best of them all. Some of these are twists on old classics, but some are new and exciting recipes you may not have seen before.

Classic Appetizers

Caramelized Onion, Gruyere, and Bacon Dip

Spicy Black Bean Dip

{Food Dish} Best Dessert Bar Contest: 3rd Runner-up + Recipe

We continue to unveil the most delicious dessert bars of all today with another winning recipe: Chocolate Orange Bars, which received the fourth most votes.

Do you think you can handle the deliciousness?

Last week we started to announce the best recipes we came across during our recent Best Dessert Bar Contest with our fourth runner-up: Strawberry Limeade Bars (click here for the recipe).

Now it’s time to get the delicious details on the third runner-up: Chocolate Orange Bars, by Barbara Lee Parsons of Huntsville, Alabama.

We loved the perfectly chewy texture of these bars (just what a bar should be) paired with the perfect balance of sweet chocolate to citrusy orange. The flavors were just a great combination; we couldn’t get enough!

{Food Dish} Best Dessert Bar Contest: 4th Runner-up + Recipe

Choosing our favorite dessert bars was hard – there were so many delicious options! But we did what had to be done, and now it's time to start meeting the winners. Today: Strawberry Limeade Bars, which received the fifth most votes.

A couple weeks ago, we held our dessert bar competition here at corporate headquarters. We had quite the task in front of us, since we received so many recipes (and all of these sounded delicious). We enlisted the help of co-workers, family members, and friends, and finally came up with a list of our favorites. 

Because your submissions were just so tasty, we’re publishing more than the usual three recipes online. So, today, meet our 5th favorite recipe: Strawberry Limeade Bars, by Julie Egan of Flower Mound, Texas.

We loved the refreshing, slightly tropical twist of these bars. They taste just like the drink!

Strawberry Limeade Bars

{Food Dish} Muffin Tin Meals

Try one of these yummy meals made in muffin tins. They're easy to make and easy to clean up!

Photo from Can You Stay for Dinner?

Petiti Lasagnas

Photo from The Comfort of Cooking

Vegetable and Bacon Frittatas

Photo from Hispanic Kitchen

Muffin Tin Tacos

{Food Dish} Best Frozen Dough Recipes

Delicious bread recipes all using one of the modern miracles of baking: pre-made, frozen dough.

Every Monday, we include a recipe from Rhodes in our FHE e-mail (click here to sign up). Yes, Rhodes is one of our sponsors, but very often I find myself making mental notes to come back later, when I’m off the clock, and try them out. These are my top picks from that list.

A warning to low-carb or gluten-free readers: You may not want to tempt yourself by reading further. This is sweet, bready heaven.

Braided S’more Bread

Family Size Italian Club Calzone