Super Bowl Dips Recipes
Posted Jan 25th 2007 5:24PM by AOL Living Editor
Dip, Baby, Dip! by Chef Asata Reid
Host the "big game" without missing the play-by-play action (or the commercials) when you use this fantastic spread of dips. Choose party pleasers that will appeal to the wing dunkers, the celery crunchers or both. To keep your guests happy, and yourself out of the kitchen, call your local deli before game day to order a crudités and cheese tray and a couple of assorted wing platters. Pick up an assortment of breads, crackers and chips for dipping and you'll score as the reigning MVP of good grub.
Warm Crab, Spinach & Artichoke Dip
Good enough to eat with a spoon, this creamy crab, artichoke and spinach concoction will please the most finicky gourmet in your group.
Bacon Ranch Dip
Bacon is the best thing that ever happened to ranch, and this dip is the best thing that ever happened to a crudités or wing platter.
Sun-Dried Tomato Hummus Dip
Give plain, old hummus new life with the tangy sweetness of sun-dried tomatoes and fresh parsley.
Smoked Salmon Mousse
Use high quality smoked salmon, fresh dill and lemon juice to make this delicate mousse irresistible.
Nuke It Chili Cheese Dip
Can't cook? No problem as long as you have a can opener and a microwave. Turn up the spice on this cheesy chili dip with your favorite brand of salsa or hot pepper sauce.
Seven-Layer Cheese Dip
This Super Bowl classic won't weigh you down like the store-bought versions, which can be impossible to sink a chip through. The secret to seven penetrable layers is lightening the load with sour cream.
Roasted Red Pepper and Olive Tapenade
This Mediterranean-inspired mouthful explodes with flavor. Top the tangy tapenade with crumbled feta cheese for full taste overload.
Curry Lentil Pate
You'll never miss the meat in this vegan one-pot wonder.
Chocolate-Orange Fondue
Use chocolate with at least 70 percent cocoa and break out the good liqueur for the classic flavor pairing in this fondue. Don't have a fondue pot? What did you think that slow-cooker was for?
Cheesecake Dip
This light and creamy dessert dip is great for dunking fresh fruit like strawberries or apple slices.
This article appeared as "Dip, Baby Dip!"on AOL Living before the 2007 "Big Game"
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Life Chef's "Six Week Healing Foods Plan"
THE SIX-WEEK HEALING FOODS PLAN
This original program is customized for each individual to analyze, maximize and implement better eating for better living. In six weeks, you will be empowered to optimize your food choices for better living and achieve personal goals that you determine in health, weight management, time consumption and more. You will have Print Materials, Coaching Support and Practical Application Tools to put your lessons into action for the rest of your life. The steps of the Plan include:
DIETARY ANALYSIS:
Food should fit your lifestyle! What are you eating and why? How can you optimize your eating times and choices for optimum performance? I’ll show you how to CHOOSE THE RIGHT FUEL FOR YOUR SYSTEM so that you can fire on all cylinders in every aspect of your life. We’ll assess your health history, current state and ultimate goals and develop a plan to get you there and KEEP YOU THERE.
RECIPE & MENU DEVELOPMENT: You’re not like everyone else, so why should you’re meals be like everyone else’s? I’ll develop recipes and menus that fit your HEALTH GOALS, LIFESTYLE and FOOD PREFERENCES. And I’LL TEACH YOU how to develop your own recipes and menus. The DAILY DIETARY CHEAT SHEET makes eating well simple and fun.
MEAL PLANS: A little planning goes a long way. Armed with my QUICK PLAN techniques and FLAVOR PROFILE CHEAT SHEET, you’ll have less last minute stops to the grocery store, the answer to “What’s for dinner?” will be easily answered and you can spend less than 30 minutes on a meal that will healthfully and flavorfully sustain you and/or your family.
SHOP & COOK:
We meet at the grocery store with a PREPARED SHOPPING LIST and take a GROCERY STORE TOUR where I show you what to get and where to find it, and then we go home and prep and/or cook meals that can be stored for easy heat-and-serve convenience. Most people go right for what they normally buy and have no idea of all that is available at their regular market. I will teach you how to SHOP LIKE A CHEF for great deals and ultimate freshness, which will increase the diversity of your diet and BREAK THE “FOOD RUT.”
COOKING CLASS: A few basics will give you a new relationship to food and cooking -- a healthy relationship. The BASICS CLASSES include: Vegetables, Grains 101, Soup and Salad 101, Fish and Shellfish, The Food Pyramid and Serving Sizes, The Pantry Makeover, Tools and Techniques, Soup 101 and Fresh Frozen and Fast Meals. Like all services, the Basics Classes are customized to your specific needs.
WEEKLY CONSULTS:
Once a week we’ll spend on hour checking what works and what doesn’t to make sure your Healing Foods Plan works for YOU.
EMAIL/PHONE SUPPORT: To keep our goals active and achievable I am available via phone and email any time, and I will reach out regularly to lend support and answer any questions.
REFERRALS: An entire team of physicians, dieticians/nutritionists, chefs, masseuses and fitness instructors/trainers are available to ensure you meet your health goals and maximize your six week plan.
This original program is customized for each individual to analyze, maximize and implement better eating for better living. In six weeks, you will be empowered to optimize your food choices for better living and achieve personal goals that you determine in health, weight management, time consumption and more. You will have Print Materials, Coaching Support and Practical Application Tools to put your lessons into action for the rest of your life. The steps of the Plan include:
DIETARY ANALYSIS:
Food should fit your lifestyle! What are you eating and why? How can you optimize your eating times and choices for optimum performance? I’ll show you how to CHOOSE THE RIGHT FUEL FOR YOUR SYSTEM so that you can fire on all cylinders in every aspect of your life. We’ll assess your health history, current state and ultimate goals and develop a plan to get you there and KEEP YOU THERE. RECIPE & MENU DEVELOPMENT: You’re not like everyone else, so why should you’re meals be like everyone else’s? I’ll develop recipes and menus that fit your HEALTH GOALS, LIFESTYLE and FOOD PREFERENCES. And I’LL TEACH YOU how to develop your own recipes and menus. The DAILY DIETARY CHEAT SHEET makes eating well simple and fun.
MEAL PLANS: A little planning goes a long way. Armed with my QUICK PLAN techniques and FLAVOR PROFILE CHEAT SHEET, you’ll have less last minute stops to the grocery store, the answer to “What’s for dinner?” will be easily answered and you can spend less than 30 minutes on a meal that will healthfully and flavorfully sustain you and/or your family.
SHOP & COOK:
We meet at the grocery store with a PREPARED SHOPPING LIST and take a GROCERY STORE TOUR where I show you what to get and where to find it, and then we go home and prep and/or cook meals that can be stored for easy heat-and-serve convenience. Most people go right for what they normally buy and have no idea of all that is available at their regular market. I will teach you how to SHOP LIKE A CHEF for great deals and ultimate freshness, which will increase the diversity of your diet and BREAK THE “FOOD RUT.” COOKING CLASS: A few basics will give you a new relationship to food and cooking -- a healthy relationship. The BASICS CLASSES include: Vegetables, Grains 101, Soup and Salad 101, Fish and Shellfish, The Food Pyramid and Serving Sizes, The Pantry Makeover, Tools and Techniques, Soup 101 and Fresh Frozen and Fast Meals. Like all services, the Basics Classes are customized to your specific needs.
WEEKLY CONSULTS:
Once a week we’ll spend on hour checking what works and what doesn’t to make sure your Healing Foods Plan works for YOU. EMAIL/PHONE SUPPORT: To keep our goals active and achievable I am available via phone and email any time, and I will reach out regularly to lend support and answer any questions.
REFERRALS: An entire team of physicians, dieticians/nutritionists, chefs, masseuses and fitness instructors/trainers are available to ensure you meet your health goals and maximize your six week plan.
Life Chef Services
CHEF PARTIES:
It's like bringing your favorite cooking show into your own home. Get hands on, one-on-one or group instruction with a professional chef who has a decade of industry experience. A wide range of cuisines, themes and techniques are available: Easy Entertaining, The Ultimate Cocktail Party, Elegant Cheese Boards, "Build Your Own" Parties, Great Starts and Finishes, Fantastic Finger Foods, Soup and Salad 101, Power Plant Eating, Five Meals-One Ingredient and more!
DIET/WELLNESS CONSULTING:
I analyze your diet and nutrition, health history, fitness goals and overall well-being. Then I develop recommendations to maximize your health. A full range of specialists are at your disposal to further your education about the greatest investment you can make -- your health: Physicians and specialists, dieticians and nutritionists, counselors and therapists, fitness instructors, body workers, vegan/vegetarian chefs, alternative healing practitioners.
INTIMATE CATERING:
Whether your party consists of 2 or 200, I'll make sure you are utterly catered to. No preprinted menus and services here. Every catered affair is custom designed to fulfill your tastes and preferences. Present food that will leave your guests speechless, or at the very least, talking about your event for a long tome to come. Nearly a decade of special events has given me the experience to create a culinary delight for any occasion.
LECTURES & DEMOS:
Food is fun, and changing your relationship to food can save literally save your life. Information about good nutrition can set young people on a healthful path for the long haul, and even give people battling health issues a second chance at living well. Offices, schools and various groups all benefit from learning how to eat to live. And what's better than an easily digestible informational seminar complete with delicious examples? Education and health awareness never tasted so good!
DIETS & FAST SUPPORT:
Fad diets are unhealthy, but in order to make permanent healthy changes to your diet, you may need support. The same holds true with entering and exiting fasts. Quick fixes and sudden rapid changes can be detrimental to your body and actually reverse the benefits of fasting or dietary changes. As your Life Chef, I can help you maintain a dietary shift, fast or cleanse by supplying you with the appropriate foods/juices/broths, recipes and non-judgmental support.
PERSONAL CHEF SERVICES:
Personal Chef services offer many benefits beyond the convenience of having a fridge stocked with delicious food. It's a good way to introduce healthy meals to the entire family, a delicious and luxurious reward for working out and working hard, and an excellent way to support a diet or make a dietary shift. Having a personal chef can ease preparation woes and boost your overall nutrition while diversifying your diet and bringing fun back into meal times. A personal chef can even make fasts and cleanses hassle free.
SHOP & COOK:
Shop like a chef and plan like a pro by choosing the freshest most delicious and cost effective ingredients, developing weekly menus in minutes and maintaining a well-stocked pantry. Save time, avoid the dreaded "What's for dinner?" question and actually enjoy mealtimes by taking the Shop & Cook class. The class can be used as a template to simplify shopping and cooking 52 weeks a year, or tailored so you can learn how to pull off entertaining a large group, elegant multi-course dinners and special gatherings like kids’ parties or anniversary dinners.
PRINT RESOURCES:
As a health reporter and food writer, Chef Asata Reid (a.s. reid) has published articles on health and food-related health issues. Copies are available, as well as a variety of helpful tools such as the “Cheat Sheets” on Flavor Profiles, Planning, Shopping and more. Inquire for a detailed listing.
THE SIX-WEEK HEALING FOODS PLAN:
This original program is customized for each individual to analyze, maximize and implement better eating for better living. It includes: Dietary Analysis, Recipe & Menu Development, Meal Plans, Shop & Cook Session, Cooking Classes, Weekly Consultations, and regular Email and telephone support. It may even include Personal Chef Services and Referrals as needed. In six weeks, you will be empowered to optimize your food choices for better living. You will have Print Materials, Coaching Support and Practical Application Tools to put your lessons into action for the rest of your life. For details see the enclosed sheet.
It's like bringing your favorite cooking show into your own home. Get hands on, one-on-one or group instruction with a professional chef who has a decade of industry experience. A wide range of cuisines, themes and techniques are available: Easy Entertaining, The Ultimate Cocktail Party, Elegant Cheese Boards, "Build Your Own" Parties, Great Starts and Finishes, Fantastic Finger Foods, Soup and Salad 101, Power Plant Eating, Five Meals-One Ingredient and more!
DIET/WELLNESS CONSULTING:
I analyze your diet and nutrition, health history, fitness goals and overall well-being. Then I develop recommendations to maximize your health. A full range of specialists are at your disposal to further your education about the greatest investment you can make -- your health: Physicians and specialists, dieticians and nutritionists, counselors and therapists, fitness instructors, body workers, vegan/vegetarian chefs, alternative healing practitioners.INTIMATE CATERING:
Whether your party consists of 2 or 200, I'll make sure you are utterly catered to. No preprinted menus and services here. Every catered affair is custom designed to fulfill your tastes and preferences. Present food that will leave your guests speechless, or at the very least, talking about your event for a long tome to come. Nearly a decade of special events has given me the experience to create a culinary delight for any occasion.
LECTURES & DEMOS:
Food is fun, and changing your relationship to food can save literally save your life. Information about good nutrition can set young people on a healthful path for the long haul, and even give people battling health issues a second chance at living well. Offices, schools and various groups all benefit from learning how to eat to live. And what's better than an easily digestible informational seminar complete with delicious examples? Education and health awareness never tasted so good!
DIETS & FAST SUPPORT:
Fad diets are unhealthy, but in order to make permanent healthy changes to your diet, you may need support. The same holds true with entering and exiting fasts. Quick fixes and sudden rapid changes can be detrimental to your body and actually reverse the benefits of fasting or dietary changes. As your Life Chef, I can help you maintain a dietary shift, fast or cleanse by supplying you with the appropriate foods/juices/broths, recipes and non-judgmental support. PERSONAL CHEF SERVICES:
Personal Chef services offer many benefits beyond the convenience of having a fridge stocked with delicious food. It's a good way to introduce healthy meals to the entire family, a delicious and luxurious reward for working out and working hard, and an excellent way to support a diet or make a dietary shift. Having a personal chef can ease preparation woes and boost your overall nutrition while diversifying your diet and bringing fun back into meal times. A personal chef can even make fasts and cleanses hassle free.
SHOP & COOK:
Shop like a chef and plan like a pro by choosing the freshest most delicious and cost effective ingredients, developing weekly menus in minutes and maintaining a well-stocked pantry. Save time, avoid the dreaded "What's for dinner?" question and actually enjoy mealtimes by taking the Shop & Cook class. The class can be used as a template to simplify shopping and cooking 52 weeks a year, or tailored so you can learn how to pull off entertaining a large group, elegant multi-course dinners and special gatherings like kids’ parties or anniversary dinners.
PRINT RESOURCES:
As a health reporter and food writer, Chef Asata Reid (a.s. reid) has published articles on health and food-related health issues. Copies are available, as well as a variety of helpful tools such as the “Cheat Sheets” on Flavor Profiles, Planning, Shopping and more. Inquire for a detailed listing.
THE SIX-WEEK HEALING FOODS PLAN:
This original program is customized for each individual to analyze, maximize and implement better eating for better living. It includes: Dietary Analysis, Recipe & Menu Development, Meal Plans, Shop & Cook Session, Cooking Classes, Weekly Consultations, and regular Email and telephone support. It may even include Personal Chef Services and Referrals as needed. In six weeks, you will be empowered to optimize your food choices for better living. You will have Print Materials, Coaching Support and Practical Application Tools to put your lessons into action for the rest of your life. For details see the enclosed sheet.
Life Chef FAQ
What is a Life Chef?
A Life Chef is your personal culinary consultant. As your Life Chef, my goal is to help you make food choices that fit your lifestyle, while maximizing the health benefits and empowering you to eat to live. My services will educate and empower you to make the best food choices for your life. Some of your Life Chef services may include: showing you how to plan menus and shop to free up more time; lead fun classes and cooking demos that show how easy eating better can be; and support healthy dietary changes or ease the transitions into and out of fasts.
What's the difference between a Personal Chef and a Life Chef?
Personal chefs prepare foods in clients’ homes or for delivery to clients’ homes. It's a service that is available to you as your Life Chef, but also I offer a wide range of services that will educate and empower you to improve and maintain your health, break out of the “Food Rut” and save time with convenient shopping tips, tools and techniques. Most importantly, everything we do together is tailored to and for you, to fit your lifestyle so that you can actually maintain good habits without depending on me, and without falling "off track" like so many diet and exercise fads.
Why do I need a Life Chef?
Just like a car your body needs top quality fuel to operate at peak levels. Food is the fuel for your body and your life, and regular assessment of that fuel is necessary to see if the food you are eating is actually working for or against you. What do you eat? When do you heat? How do you eat what you eat? And how do all of these factors impact your health, vitality, ability to concentrate and your overall performance. Food impacts how you feel, which can affect how you do what it is you do. As your Life Chef, I not only optimize your diet so that you're getting the best fuel for your life, but I will also teach you how to maintain your "machine" and alleviate potential or existing physical, emotional and spiritual problems that may be tied to food by referral to my network of professionals.
How does this work?
It starts with a phone call so that we can have an understanding of your needs. I may ask you to keep a “food journal” for a week because I need to know how, when and what you eat. Or I may ask a lot of questions about food preferences and dietary habits in order to customize an exciting menu for a special event or dinner for two. Before you know it you will not only be eating healthfully, but you will be able to prepare meals with confidence, or enjoy more free time as you get out of the kitchen, or improve the quality of your life with improved energy, vitality and health.
How much does it cost?
Just like your diet, your services are customized to suit YOU, so after an initial free consultation we’ll have a better idea of what you need and what I can offer.
A Life Chef is your personal culinary consultant. As your Life Chef, my goal is to help you make food choices that fit your lifestyle, while maximizing the health benefits and empowering you to eat to live. My services will educate and empower you to make the best food choices for your life. Some of your Life Chef services may include: showing you how to plan menus and shop to free up more time; lead fun classes and cooking demos that show how easy eating better can be; and support healthy dietary changes or ease the transitions into and out of fasts.
What's the difference between a Personal Chef and a Life Chef?
Personal chefs prepare foods in clients’ homes or for delivery to clients’ homes. It's a service that is available to you as your Life Chef, but also I offer a wide range of services that will educate and empower you to improve and maintain your health, break out of the “Food Rut” and save time with convenient shopping tips, tools and techniques. Most importantly, everything we do together is tailored to and for you, to fit your lifestyle so that you can actually maintain good habits without depending on me, and without falling "off track" like so many diet and exercise fads. Why do I need a Life Chef?
Just like a car your body needs top quality fuel to operate at peak levels. Food is the fuel for your body and your life, and regular assessment of that fuel is necessary to see if the food you are eating is actually working for or against you. What do you eat? When do you heat? How do you eat what you eat? And how do all of these factors impact your health, vitality, ability to concentrate and your overall performance. Food impacts how you feel, which can affect how you do what it is you do. As your Life Chef, I not only optimize your diet so that you're getting the best fuel for your life, but I will also teach you how to maintain your "machine" and alleviate potential or existing physical, emotional and spiritual problems that may be tied to food by referral to my network of professionals. How does this work?
It starts with a phone call so that we can have an understanding of your needs. I may ask you to keep a “food journal” for a week because I need to know how, when and what you eat. Or I may ask a lot of questions about food preferences and dietary habits in order to customize an exciting menu for a special event or dinner for two. Before you know it you will not only be eating healthfully, but you will be able to prepare meals with confidence, or enjoy more free time as you get out of the kitchen, or improve the quality of your life with improved energy, vitality and health.
How much does it cost?
Just like your diet, your services are customized to suit YOU, so after an initial free consultation we’ll have a better idea of what you need and what I can offer.
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