New Year's Crab Dip!

I bet, by now, you think all I do is eat!

 

I am lucky enough to have a Dear Darling who likes to cook, experiment in the kitchen and try things without an actual recipe.

 

New Years eve I was just going to do simple and easy.  I went to our local Wegman's and got some of their already cooked Garlic Shrimp and I was going to make some angel hair pasta and a salad and BAM!, dinners on the table.

 

My Dear Darling had other ideas.

 

"Why don't you go get some crab meat? We'll make some dip."

"Oh, and pick up some spinach while you are there."

"Do we have cream cheese?"

 

So, back out to the store, now the third one that day, to pick up some crab meat.  I've, we've, never made crab dip before, but I always buy Lump crab when I am making crab cakes, so that is what I bought for this dip.



 

 

 

 

Above is the mix, cream cheese, Lump crab, spinach, some chopped onion, some chopped red pepper, shredded mozzarella and I think there is some shredded jack cheese in there as well, and maybe even a tablespoon or two of Hellman's.



 

 



 Next, he put it all into a glass pie plate.  He wanted to put it into a 4 quart casserole dish, but I didn't think it would cook evenly in that.  (My thinking, it's an "expensive" dip to burn)

 Below, is the finished product.  It was wonderful!  It was filling with Corn chips.  It was TOO much for two people and too rich!

 

 

We ate about half of the pie plate and we had no shrimp dinner that night, we were STUFFED!!!  The shrimp dinner became New Years Day dinner and the other half of this we vacuum packed and put into the freezer.

Never be afraid to try something you've never done before or that you don't have a recipe for.  Yes, at times, it can be a gamble, and in this case, an expensive one, if it didn't come out edible, but most often times, you may find a new favorite!