PHOTO BY David Williams
The opposite day, my good friend Lucy threw a celebration. She’s an epic host, and once I walked into her bustling front room, I noticed an overflowing cheese and charcuterie board. However then my eyes zeroed in on one thing else.
RUFFLES AND FRENCH ONION DIP.
My coronary heart skipped a beat. The combo was a beloved staple of my Midwest childhood, however then I moved to New York after faculty and by no means actually noticed it once more. However right here it was, in all its glory. I headed proper over to take a chunk.
“We all the time make a double batch,” Lucy informed me this morning. “We put a number of bowls across the room so we don’t have a visitors drawback.”
All it’s a must to do, in fact, is a) combine Lipton’s Onion Soup & Dip Combine right into a bowl of bitter cream; and a pair of) open a bag of Ruffles. It’s low cost and old-school and wildly crowd-pleasing.
Listed here are Lucy’s professional ideas:
* You can not use gentle bitter cream, and also you want a inflexible potato chip to bear the burden of the dip. It’s the identical as how completely different pasta shapes maintain sauce higher.
* what’s additionally good? Salt and pepper ruffled chips. That’s zhuzhes them up somewhat.
* We put out carrot and celery sticks, too, however folks solely go for these when we’re right down to the crumbs of the chips.
* Pigs in blankets are the opposite factor the place it doesn’t matter what different fancy meals you set out. However French onion dip nonetheless goes essentially the most shortly.
Since that occasion, I’ve noticed the combo once more: at a child’s birthday after which at an Oscars viewing occasion. Is the snack coming again on the scene? Or did it by no means actually go away?
Would you strive it? Or possibly you will have it on a regular basis?! The humorous factor is, I discussed Ruffles with onion dip on a CoJ workforce name, and nobody knew what I used to be speaking about. (“Do you imply ranch?” they requested.) I felt just like the man within the film Yesterday, the place no one’s heard of The Beatles.
P.S. Three strategic starters for a cocktail party, and don’t overlook about tater tots!
(Pictures and gif by David Williams for Cup of Jo.)
