I hope that you don’t have leftovers from the Super Bowl still. It took me a while to get to this topic. But I wanted to put out mind opener. Let me cover what we had going here. I had a crab Rangoon dip with a bunch of raw crab, queso dip and spinach artichoke dip. So what can we do with this stuff other than eating a bunch of chips, crackers and dip for weeks?

First of all, I had wings on Monday and we did make nachos on the Tuesday after the super bowl. But we did have a lot of queso dip left after that. You have to use your brain here. What is in queso dip? The dip was evaporated milk, white American cheese and a can of green chiles. I found it to be really bland to begin with so why not repurpose this? After all, alfredo sauce is a cheese dispersed in milk.

To combat the slight, wrong cheese flavor, I heavily seasoned shrimp with Cajun seasoning with some to the sauce as well and thinned the whole thing down with cream. I served over fettuccini noodles. You would have never known that this started out as queso dip.

The crab Rangoon dip needed a little more delicate flair. This dip was made with crab, cream cheese, green onions, topped with some shredded cheddar cheese and sweet chili sauce. I love to use this kind of thing as omelet filler so that is what I did.

I purchase crab for the dip in a can. We only needed about half of it so we had probably a cup of crab. That got made into a seafood chowder. It wasn’t enough crab to call it a crab chowder so I supplemented by adding some canned clams. My point with this one is that you can still use up smaller quantities of leftovers by adding other items with them.

The spinach artichoke dip stayed just that. It is a whole lot easier to finish off one dip than three. I really didn’t apply much thought to repurposing this one but may some kind of soup? Maybe I could have even thrown it in with the chowder? Something to think about.

It didn’t hurt that I had nearly a half gallon of cream that was near the expiration point. I had to act quickly with all of these things or risk them going bad. I am pretty happy with my creations and those leftovers will become lunch portions that I will much more likely eat than a big container of dip.

End Your Programming Routine: Making all of these things was my wife’s brainchild. I would have probably made one thing and focused on the game. That being said, we both have our idiosyncrasies. So, it was my job to figure out what to do with the leftovers. Truth be told, I think the re-creations were better than the original. It comes with a second helping of satisfaction as well.