Rachel Thompson 
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. The first time I made a Thai peanut dipping sauce recipe from scratch, I was standing in my kitchen at 11pm the night before a neighborhood potluck. I had a bag of spring roll wrappers, … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. The first time I made a raita recipe Indian yogurt dip from scratch, I was completely desperate. My husband had talked up his mom’s lamb biryani to our entire friend group, and I had volunteered … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. The first time I made a miso onion dip recipe, I was desperate. My sister-in-law’s birthday party was two hours away, I had a half-empty fridge, and I’d already made my standard French onion dip … Read more
It started with a disaster. I had twelve people coming over for a summer cookout, and I had confidently promised “amazing dips.” My go-to roasted red pepper hummus was fine. My spinach artichoke dip was reliable. But halfway through the…
It was a Tuesday night, and I was staring at a bowl of hummus that tasted completely flat. My friend’s birthday party was the next evening. I had 24 hours to figure out what was wrong. The chickpeas were fresh….
It started with a Super Bowl party that nearly broke me. I had promised twelve friends the full spread — guacamole, queso, spinach artichoke, and a roasted red pepper hummus I had been perfecting for months. Halfway through prep, I…
It happened on a Friday night, thirty minutes before twelve people showed up at my door. My food processor — the one I had used for every hummus and bean dip I had ever made — decided that was the…
It was my cousin’s holiday party. Forty people. Three dips. One tiny slow cooker I’d been using since college. By the time the second wave of guests arrived, my spinach artichoke was cold, my queso had gone stiff, and someone…
It was a Sunday afternoon, thirty minutes before my neighbors started arriving for game day, and my queso dip was a greasy, clumpy disaster. I had used pre-shredded cheese from a bag — big mistake. Those anti-caking coatings basically guarantee…
Baba Ganoush and Hummus Baba ganoush was next on my list. After roasting two large eggplants directly over my gas burner at medium-high flame until completely charred, I let them cool, peeled them, and worked the flesh in the mortar….
