PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!

That cute little busy Robin over at http://www.pensieve.typepad.com/ has been bitten by the creativity bug again and she has created something cool and special--A Blog Hop! Because some could not attend the BlogHer Convention (?) in San Francisco (I haven't been blogging long enough to know how exciting the convention was supposed to be), she decided to party back home, so let's get together, why don't we, and party with recipes, meet-n-greets, and the like. Wanna know more about the purpose of this blog? Click on My Blog's Welcome Letter in labels. Wanna know some things (all true, but some peculiar) about me, click on Photos in labels. There you will see me, places I've been, my boys when they were little and more, but, you'll also get to see a list at the bottom of 10 things about me. That's where you'll see a picture of me at 18 (I'm far from that now) in my "back then, I thought I was pretty in mint green prom dress" picture. Oooh my, how times have changed, THANK GOD!! If you click on the "Miscellany" label, you'll see some interesting posts (I think there's a picture of hubby and I there too), AND you'll see how really raw (or green) and new to blogging I really was then. The post layouts and errors are terrible, but the content is probably interesting.

Anyhooty, I wanna leave you with this recipe. It's so easy to do and great for parties.

It's Neufchatel Cheese Dip

• You just get 1 8oz pkg. of Neufchatel Cheese (It looks just like Philly Cream Cheese in the grey box)
• Cut it in chunks into a sauce pan on med. to med. low heat (so it won't scorch)
• Add one can of Ro-tel tomatoes and green chilies (you can get mild, med. or hot. I like hot.)
• Melt and mix all ingredients together until cheese and Ro-tel are smooth.
• Pour into a dipping bowl and use Tortilla chips

Variations on the above are to use Philly Cream cheese, of course.

You can add baby shrimp and chopped, green bell peppers to the mix

You can do half Neufchatel and half Velveeta

You can add finely chopped ground beef

I've had these and a couple of other variations to this dip and all of my family loves it! It's almost a contest on how experimental we can be to come up with a new variation when we get together back home.

Now get yourselves over to Robin's place to Blog Hop with other Hoppers and get to know some new folks!!

PARTY ON PEOPLE, PARTY ON!!!