Friday, December 28, 2012

Easy Spinach Dip…

My dad sent me this recipe; he got it from my step-mom's niece, Metrina.

Spinach dip is the only way I can get my kids to eat spinach. Lucky for them they weren't subject to hours of Popeye cartoons. I do not know how many hours, I had drilled into my head that spinach makes you stronger from watching that cartoon. The truth is Popeye was right spinach does make you stronger. In June 2012 "researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said they had conducted a study showing how nitrate, found naturally in spinach and several other vegetables, tones up muscles."

So eat your spinach even if you have to digest it in dip form!
 
1-16oz sour cream
1- cup mayo
1-package of knoor's spring mix
1-8oz can of slice water chestnuts, dice up
3-green onion stems, sliced
1-package of frozen chopped spinach (defrost then squeeze out all the water)


Mix everything until well blended, chill for at least 4 hours so it can firm. Serve with bread, chips, wheat thins, or any other thing that taste good but on the plain side.

When you put it in the fridge, you must say good night to it.