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A lot of times I like to find healthy alternatives for my recipes. Such as swapping butter or sour cream for Greek yogurt. Or sugar for apple sauce. Well…this is not one of those recipes, my friends. There is literally nothing healthy about this Bacon Onion dip. Except maybe the onions…

But man is this bacon onion dip worth all those calories!

I saw this recipe for Bacon Onion dip on Food Network a while ago and I was pretty much drooling by the end or the episode. How could anything with bacon and caramelized onions be bad? I’m pretty sure it’s scientifically impossible.

I tried out the recipe for our game night last weekend. It turned out to be such a huge hit (mainly with my husband), that I made it again the next day for our Small Group. It actually gave me an opportunity to make a couple tweaks, and, in my humble opinion, make it even better!

This dip starts with a base of cream cheese and mayonnaise (told you it was unhealthy!). To that I added some smoked paprika, a smidge of Dijon mustard, and a pinch of cayenne. Then I mixed the whole thing up with my hand mixer until it was nice and fluffy.

But before I did all that, I caramelized some diced onions. Dicing the onions not only makes this process a bit quicker, but it’s much easier to eat in the dip than having strands of onion. Then I added the onions to the cream cheese mixture.

But that is not all I added. I also added some mozzarella and Paremsan cheese as well as some chopped up bacon that I just microwaved until crispy. After the whole gang was in the bowl, I gave the dip a good stir. I wanted to make sure every bite had a bit of onion, bacon, and cheese.

But to make sure that everyone got a bit of bacon, I added some more cheese and bacon on top.

Once this dip came out of the oven, we couldn’t keep our hands off of it. Or really, our crackers out of it. I would love to describe it to you, but literally the only thing I can think of is “creamy, bacony and oniony”, which is probably everything you assumed it would be from the title. Just trust me…it’s really, really good.

And you know what this dip would be perfect for? The Super Bowl! I am pretty sure that every Super Bowl party requires some sort of awesome dip. So you should make this one and thank me later.

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Sometime after I graduated from college, I was living in Houston with two of my best friends. One of those friends was always trying to fix us up with her boyfriend’s roommates. She would casually suggest that we hang out and watch the football games with them, or make them dinner. The first, and maybe only time, we made them dinner, we decided to make them my French Onion Soup! Not only did the boys love it, but it must have worked it’s magic on at least one of them. Sometime after that dinner our other roommate started dating one of the boys. Now, they are married with a beautiful daughter.

All thanks to that French Onion Soup.

Okay, not really. But in my head that’s where it all started.
The reason I choose my French Onion Soup recipe all those years ago was, first, it was the one recipe I felt I had really mastered.

Growing up, FOS was my absolute favorite. When I started doing more and more cooking during college, it was probably one of the first recipes I tried and experimented with.

Second, it only requires a few easy steps.

Step 1: Caramelize onions.

Step 2: Add wine and reduce.

Step 3: Add flour and stir.

Step 4: Add broth and simmer.

I like to let the soup simmer for at least 30 minutes so that all the flavors in the herbs start to seep into the broth, making the broth extra rich and flavorful.

Once the broth is ready, I ladle it into a couple bowls, top with a slice of bread, a couple slices of Gruyere cheese, and pop it under the broiler until the cheese is nice and melted.

That first bite is my favorite. You have to break through that thick layer of cheese and bread to get down to the good stuff. That first spoonful has a bit of everything – a healthy glob of cheese, a bit of bread, and the yummy onions. A little bite of heaven if you ask me.

My husband and I will eat the soup on it’s own as our dinner. But, it would also be great on the side of a big, hearty salad, or even as a starter before a nice steak dinner.

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Creamy Bacon Onion Dip

Classic French Onion Soup

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