Sun-dried Tomato Spread

Are you having company over tomorrow and you need a new appetizer?  Or maybe you have a home where people drop by and you always like serving a "little sumpin' sumpin'" to nosh on.  Well, the appetizer below is pretty much the easiest appetizer I make.  It has a few more ingredients than my "two-ingredient" dessert, but not by much.   Thanks to Cathy Dunn for putting me onto this deliciousness! Here's what you need:

  • One cube of cream cheese (feel free to use 1/3 less fat version)
  • 2-3 green onions, chopped
  • approximately 1/2 cup chopped pecans
  • approximately 1/2 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes (oil version is fine - I buy these in bulk at Costco)
  • Tabasco & Worcestershire sauce to taste
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Put the cream cheese in a bowl and top with onions, pecans, and sun-dried tomatoes.  I like to have the cream cheese out for 30 minutes or so before I throw this together in order to keep it easy to mix.

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After you've mixed together the large ingredients,  add your Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce.  This is where you have to do "lots" of tasting.  I use about a teaspoon of Tabasco (but I love heat!) and slightly more than that of Worcestershire sauce.  (I think...)  Really, you just need to keep some crackers handy and sample until you like the flavor.   I ALSO play with the amount of onions/nuts/sun-dried tomatoes.  I like loading it up with the good stuff, so if you feel like the cream cheese-to-filling ratio isn't right, add more of the first three ingredients!

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Presto!  You're done.  You can make this ahead of time and keep it in the fridge for up to a week.

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Serve with crackers and keep the recipe handy -- people definitely want it.

Enjoy!