Grab the Chips, It's Time to Dip!

You know what one of my favorite snacks is? Dip.  Is that weird?   I love to dip chips, veggies, fruit, anything I can use to cram as much dip as possible into my mouth.  My 89-year-old grandma doesn't see the need for chips with this salsa.  She makes it and eats it with a spoon.  Have I mentioned my grandma?  She basically lives off Hostess cupcakes, Hershey's dark chocolate, and this salsa.  You can go to her house at any time and she will have it in her fridge.  When you take her to the grocery store, her cart will contain at least 3 boxes of Hostess cupcakes, a couple packages of chocolate, and the ingredients for this salsa.  I am not kidding.  I have no idea why she doesn't weigh 500 lbs.

These are two of my favorite “dips,” if you can classify them as that.  And they’re pretty healthy, so that makes it ok for me to eat them all by myself, right?  Especially if I eat them with baked chips?  I’ll just keep telling myself that while I shovel in the chips.  I'm sure my grandma will approve.  

Fresh Salsa

- 4-5 Roma tomatoes, diced

- 1/2 an onion, diced 

- 1 avocado, diced

- about 1/2 cup cilantro, chopped

- juice of 1 lemon

- salt to taste

Mix tomatoes, onion, avocado, and cilantro.  Add lemon juice and salt to taste.

Guacamole

- 2 avocados

- 1/4 of an onion, diced

- 1 Roma tomato, diced

- juice of 1 lemon

- salt to taste

Mash avocados ( I just mash mine up with a fork).  Stir in diced onion and tomato.  Add lemon juice and salt to taste.

These go really well with enchiladas.  The healthy freshness of the dips balances out the fatty creamy deliciousness of all that cheese.  I’ll just keep telling myself that, too.