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Michael’s Onioney, Onion Dip. With Onions!

Oniony, Onion Dip.

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There are a lot of recipes on the backs of ingredients that are themselves tasty and can also be doctored up for a taster recipe.  For example, onion soup mix has a recipe for onion dip on the back of the box that consists of onion soup and sour cream.  My family used to make this dip a lot when I was a kid and I really liked it.

I love onions, especially red and green onions. If you’ve ever bought green onions you usually end up with a lot more than you can probably use before they go bad. That being the case, I decided to enhance the back of the box onion soup dip recipe with some left over green onions. Now the onion dip is more onioney! I added some buttermilk and mayonnaise to make it creamier, seasoned with salt and pepper and ended up with my very own dip.  I call it Michael’s Onioney, Onion Dip. With Onions!

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Michael's Onioney, Onion Dip. With Onions!
 
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Recipe type: Appetizer
Ingredients
  • 1 package of onion soup mix
  • 2 cups sour cream
  • ½ cup of green onion
  • ⅓ cup mayonaise
  • ⅓ cup buttermilk
  • Salt and Pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Mix together all ingredients and chill for 2-3 hours prior to serving.
Tips and TricksTips and Tricks

Add other vegetables to the dip, like carrot strings and you’ll get [Your Name]’s Michael’s [Your Vegetable]ey Onioney, Onion Dip. With Onions and [Your Vegetable]!

Feed the FreezerFeed the Freezer

Thawed sour cream kind of separates and turns into a gross and grainy mess so don’t freeze it when it’s the star of the recipe.  You can absolutely freeze it when it’s just an ingredient in something like a casserole.

Fun FactsFun Facts

According to Alton Brown in the Good Eats episode Dip Madness, “In order to qualify as a dip, the candidate substance must be able to maintain constant contact with its transport medium over three feet of white carpet.”

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Buttermilk Biscuits

Temperature450°Time25 mins

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I love breakfast more than any other meal.  Breakfast has the best meats, the best breads, and sometimes dessert is incorporated right into the meal.  I’ll take a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit over a club sandwich any day of the week!

Growing up in the south, biscuits were a pretty regular sight on the table – whether breakfast, lunch, dinner or supper.  The difference between lunch/supper and dinner is that dinner is fancier and was more likely to feature all the good stuff that southern food is known for, AKA biscuits.

Nanny (my mom’s mom) taught me the basics of biscuits but she never measured so I couldn’t turn out reliable biscuits like she did.  My goal this year was to “get good at biscuits” so I picked up a book called Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking and a bag of flour and went to work and here’s what I came up with…

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Buttermilk Biscuits
 
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Tender and flaky buttermilk biscuits will make people think that you are a southern grandmother.
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Serves: 8
Ingredients
  • 3 Cups Flour
  • 4 tsp Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 1 Tbsp Sugar
  • 5 Tbsp Butter
  • 3 Tbsp Vegetable Shortening
  • 1⅓ Cup Buttermilk
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 450°
  2. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a large bowl
  3. Cut in cold butter and shortening with a fork, your fingers, or a pastry cutter until you get pea sized chunks of flour/butter/shortening
  4. Pour in buttermilk and mix to combine. The mixture will be clumpy kind of like dry cookie dough.
  5. Turn dough out onto lightly floured surface and bring together into a dough - being careful not to overwork the dough.
  6. Pat dough out into a rectangle that is about ½ an inch thick and cut into biscuits. I cut them into squares because I didn't want to get out the biscuit cutters and reform the dough but you can cut rounds if you'd like.
  7. Place on greased sheet pan and put into the oven for 12 - 15 minutes. Watch them at the end and pull them out when they are golden brown and delicious.
Tips and TricksTips and Tricks
Feed the FreezerFeed the Freezer

Biscuits are super easy to make and freeze really well.  Get the hang of it and you’ll never buy a bag of frozen biscuits again!

  • Place uncooked biscuits in a single layer in the freezer so they’re not touching.
  • Once the biscuits have frozen, place them in a freezer bag for up to 6 months.
  • Cook biscuits directly from frozen at 375° on a greased pan for 20 – 25 minutes or until they’re golden brown and delicious.
Fun FactsFun Facts
  • A biscuit refers to a cookie in the United Kingdom and Canada.
  • White flour, commonly used to bake biscuits, is almost instantly metabolized into sugar. Biscuits will quickly spike your blood-sugar level.