Carmelized Sweet Onion Dip

This recipe can be found at OurBestBites.com.

4 cups chopped onion (about 2 large sweet onions)
1/2 T butter, melted
1/2 T olive oil
3 oz cream cheese
4 T sour cream
3 T mayo
1/2 tsp Worcestershire
1/8 tsp kosher salt
1/8 tsp dried thyme
1/8 tsp garlic powder

The first step is to carmelize the onions.  You can certainly do this on the stovetop by tossing the onion in butter and olive oil in a sauté pan.  The recipe I found gave the following instructions on how to do it in the oven. 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Place onion in a heavy dutch oven or heavy bottom pot with a lid and toss with butter and olive oil.  (I used a stoneware pot with a lid, and it worked fine, although it took a bit longer.)  Cover pot and cook for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, stirring every 20 minutes until a caramel brown color.  You might want to decrease oven temperature after about 45-60 minutes to 350 degrees and stir every 15 minutes to avoid burnt edge bits, but I didn't have a problem.  Remove from oven and set aside to cool.

Place cream cheese in a microwave safe mixing bowl and heat for 15 seconds until warmed enough to be easily stirable.  Add sour cream, mayo, Worcestershire, salt, thyme, and garlic.  Sir to combine and then mix in carmelized onions. 

You can certainly eat right away, but the recipe suggests to chill overnight before serving to help develop the flavors.  Yields about 1 1/4 cups.

Note:  The recipe on OurBestBites.com called for 3 T cream cheese.  Not sure if it was a typo or not.  I used 3 oz, and it turned out great.  The recipe also called for low fat cream cheese, low fat sour cream, and low fat mayo.  I just used whatever I had on hand, whether low fat or not.

no ordinary week in the city

Call me a party pooper...I can handle it, but I've never been a "fan girl" of something to the degree that I would dress up like a certain character on Halloween, let alone on a random day of the week. It's spring in Utah, not fall, yet the streets have been packed with strange sightings.

Comic Con has come to Salt Lake.

Everywhere I look there has been something that on the average day would be picture worthy, yet this week has been very commonplace. I did manage to get video footage of Hello Kitty personified to send to my dear friend Jill, but today, I decided I better get a sampling so that people would actually believe me.

Not exactly sure what this guy is...

But the Trax stops proved most fruitful in strange encounters:

Where you took distracted by the creepy clown to notice the chainsaw-wielding nose-picker seated next to him? Don't worry, you weren't the only one.

In other news, happier news...

Saturday was spent at the homestead with the family. Dutch oven enchiladas, Easter egg hunt in which I hid the eggs so well that my teenage nephews finally gave up on the last five eggs, and generally relaxing and enjoying the time. 

I learned how to drive the four-wheeler:

But my favorite photos of the day were of Little T talking his Poppa into getting on the trampoline with him:

That little guy's diet consisted of Peeps, fruit snacks, M&Ms, and Diet Coke today to the dismay of his mother, but Aunt Kelli, Uncle Lance, and Poppa couldn't help but give into his sweet requests.

And for my Aunt Vicki...I was so tired the other day after work that I did indeed go down to the food court for dinner because I was in no mood cook. And it was delightful. :)

Biscoff No-Bake Cookies

In saucepan, combine the following:

1 stick butter

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

Bring to a boil, and boil for one minute.

Remove from heat and add the following:

1/2 cup Biscoff spread

Pinch of salt

1 tsp vanilla

Stir until combined and smooth. Then fold in 3 cups of quick oats. Drop spoonfuls of mixture onto parchment paper and allow to set up and cool.