Friday Friend Recipe #99 -- Crab Dip

 

 

 

 

Recipe number 99

Come with me as I continue to countdown my Friday Friend Cookbook
What is it, you may ask?

 

In a nutshell...
About 15 years ago, 50 of my closest friends and family, who had been on an e-mail forum with me, sent in recipes in different categories and we compiled a cookbook.
I decided to count those down!
Why?
Because  one night I was looking thru the cookbook and I said, "I should make every recipe in here for my blog"
The Handyman--who thinks he knows me better than I know myself, said,  "you'll never EVER do that."
Well,  maybe I will!  Maybe I'll show him!
Which brings me to recipe #99 Theda's Crab Dip

 

 

Crab Dip.  Cream cheese, mayonnaise, crab.

You really can't go wrong here.

Well, I guess you can go wrong, you could eat WAY TOO MUCH, if don't have some self control.

Have self control!  I know it will be hard, because this is just so good!

 

 

I found this email from Theda dated  2003, when she first sent it too me.  It's in my 'appetizer' notebook---and also in the Friday Friend Cookbook (I do have some cross referencing going on in my cookbook notebooks)--- so I'm going to include her story--her version of how she got the recipe.

And.... I think you can make out the recipe if you want to make it.

Right?

(that says HEAT the cream cheese and mushroom soup)

 

I made this a gazillion months ago  (let's say October) when I made 4 other appetizer's for our Friday night friends.

Here they all are below!

 

So...my friend Theda.

 

This is her 12th recipe in the FF cookbook countdown.

See her previous recipes here.

 

Her sister  Freda was our neighbor when I was growing up.  Freda was 16 years older than Theda and had 4 kids, so we all played together in the neighborhood--or they played with my brother, as he was younger than I.

Freda and her husband Jim, were great neighbors---the lived  across from cranky Mrs. Orman.  Cranky Mrs. Orman lived on the corner and could see all of us kinds on both streets and would yell at us if we were doing something she didn't think we should. 

None of us liked cranky Mrs. Orman.  But my mother would invite her for Thanksgiving--the horror of horrors!!

Anyway, I have great memories of Theda's sister Freda, from way before I ever met Theda.  Freda was a constant in my neighborhood.

Freda passed away last week, and I just feel I need to mention it since I'm doing one of Theda's recipes.

 

 

Freda was great

And would be so happy that John and Theda are doing this:

What you ask?

 

Getting so close to becoming retirees that's what!

They went and bought a Winnebago!

 

 

 

 

And then they go sit on the beach and do this!

Drink wine and watch the waves!

 

Hey....the best is yet to come, right?!

 

 

It might have been a bit chilly!

 

That's my FF Story!

And I'm sticking to it.