I love this recipe. My friend Kim brought this over one night and it was love at first sight. In our house, it’s know both as “Ms. Kim’s Dip” and “Cowboy Caviar“.
… At the crossroads of yum and healthy…. that pretty much sums up my latest thinking on cooking – it’s about finding that recipe (or ideally, those few hundred recipes) which are so good that you actually want to eat them just because you really like them; the fact that it’s good for you is really just an added bonus. This recipe is a perfect example of what I’m after here.
I made a batch of this Cowboy Caviar yesterday – well, I mostly made it yesterday, I finished it up today. It’s sort of a bean based salsa with guacamole ingredients tossed in… flavored primarily with cumin and cilantro. It’s usually served as an appetizer alongside tortilla chips, but I think it easily stands alone as a side dish for Mexican night – and I recall it making a great embellishment on top of turkey burgers too.
In addition to meeting the “yum + healthy” requirement… it’s also one of those recipes that is super forgiving. It’s very accepting of adding a few new things, leaving out whatever you don’t have around… I think you would have to try really hard to screw it up. Add to this the fact that it’s also a great “make ahead” dish, and really, what more could you ask for in a recipe?
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