If you are tired of my recipe posts, I’m sorry. This is pretty much the only thing I have to blog about right now. Between class, work and gardening, life is a little stretched.
Anyhoo…I whipped up the Touch Down Taco Dip and the Pioneer Woman’s Sangria for a little party I hosted last week.
The Taco Dip is so delicious, and makes a load! This is also a freezer meal, so you can even make it ahead of time.
Serve it with chips. You won’t regret it.
Touch Down Taco Dip (Freezer Meal)
1 – 16 oz can refried beans
1-8 oz pkg cream cheese, softened
1 packet taco seasoning
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup sliced green onions
2 roma tomatoes, diced
1/4 cup sliced olives
2 tablespoons fresh cilantro, chopped fine (I put a lot more than 2 tablespoons)
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
For the day of:
Tortilla chips
Guacamole (optional)
Sour cream (optional)
Salsa (optional)
Assembly:
Spread refried beans in the bottom of a 9×13 pan. Combine cream cheese, taco seasoning and minced garlic. Spread cream cheese mixture over beans. Add tomatoes, cilantro, olives over the cream cheese. Top with cheddar cheese. (To eat right away, bake at 25 minutes at 350 degrees.) Cover with plastic wrap and foil and freeze.
Cooking Instructions:
Thaw for a day in fridge. Remove plastic wrap and foil and bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Serve over tortilla chips with guacamole, sour cream and salsa.
And, onto the sangria…Yummy! This was my first time making sangria and I went with the recipe from The Pioneer Woman Cooks. (Check out the book for the recipe.)
I found out that it makes WAY too much for a small get-together… I ended up with loads of leftover sangria. (There were 6 of these glass bottles.) Next time, I would cut the recipe in half. And, if I would have read the recipe closer before, I should have figured that out.
I consider this a Pioneer Woman success.
Have you tried the PW Sangria?
The solution to drinking all of that delicious sangria? One word: FC.
Girl, that dip looks heavenly.
I am always on the hunt for a perfect Sangria recipe so I am definitely going to have to try that one out. I would be happy to take the extra off your hands to test it of course!
I had no idea she had a sangria recipe! I can only imagine how good it must have been 🙂
MMmmm that looks yummy. It is 8:34 in the AM and I want some Tacos now.
That looks tasty. I love sangria but never made it, I will have to put it on my summer to-do list.
I just made both taco dip and sangria for a party we hosted on Saturday. I almost used PW’s Sangria recipe, but wound up going with The Pastry Queen’s recipe for White Wine Sangria instead. I’ll use PW’s next time!
yum both look fabulous! I think I’ll give them both a try for my next get together!
Sangria is my favorite drink – sooooo good!! I didn’t know the PW cookbook had that recipe, so I will have to check it out! 🙂
That taco dip looks delish! And the sangria… mmmmm. Love the freezer recipe posts – our friends are having a baby in a few months and I’ve been looking for some good (easy) freezer recipes to bring them after baby arrives – these will be excellent! 🙂
Feel free to ship extra jars of sangria to my house. I could drink that stuff for breakfast…not that I ever have. That would be irresponsible. Yet delicious.
Anyway, I’m all for recipe posts lately, so don’t feel bad. Taco dip makes an acceptable dinner, right?
Whoo hoo for PW success! This taco dip sounds really good…I will have to try it. I never tire of a new recipe…keep ’em coming.
I’ve made the sangria- it’s delicious! Except there were only five of us and somehow we finished it all…hmmm hahaha