It's Greek To Me Veggie Dip

Happy Sunday, Blogsters!

As many of you know I could corner the market on veggie, fruit and relish trays at my house. I make one for almost every meal, holiday, birthday and BBQ.
I love the ease of vegetable platters. Even Sunday brunch has a fruit tray!!!

Veggie, fruit and relish trays are eatable art in my eyes, depending on your mood you could have a Monet or a Salvidor Dali. I lean more towards the Monet. I like everything orderly (can you say type A) in its place, decided by color and size.

I love veggies plain but my husband loves to eat dip with his, so I inevitably create a dip or buy one when I feel lazy. Like today.

I shop at the beautiful cookery store in Hutchinson, Kansas. It is called Apron strings and it is a wonderland for grown up foodies! They carry Le Cruset and tasting spoons, aprons of course, and some food items. I adore the dry dips that they carry.

This dip was supposed to be spinach and I just grabbed, it must have wound up in wrong box.... But, being me, I am up for surprises and I decided to make for tonight's dinner of pizza and veggies!
This dip was not designed for vegans, but you know me. It wasn't that tough converting. I am not going to rewrite the recipe, I think you can see it just fine. Another thing I like about this dip, it contains no msg, salt or preservatives. I added vegenaise and soy sour cream instead of the dairy and since I had no kalamata olives I threw in some black olives from the fridge.
The simplistic veggie tray, Top left to bottom...Wedged roma tomatoes, sliced celery, carrot sticks, cucumber slices. I buy almost all organic fruits and vegetables, if your cucumbers are not organic, please peel the skins.

An aeriel view of the veg platter.

Our pizza tonight was less than stellar. We buy our pizza from a really lovely Italian restaurant where the sauce and most ingredients (minus meats and cheese) are vegan. Tonight they must have been busy. Our pizza barely had any vegetables on it, and while the crust was excellent that was mainly what we ate... For $20.00, I wanted the works.

We usually get a combo of the following, green peppers, onions, black olives, tomatoes, scallions, sometimes jalapenos, covered by a super thick sauce full of chunky tomatoes...Not today.

But it was still good and the veggie tray paired nicely with the crust....lol

This is an easy way to get your daily allotment of raw in your diet, if you added a fruit tray it is practically a meal all by itself. Sometimes this is all I eat all day and I love it!

Chris, my husband is a vegetable freak and will eat everything before our meal has begun, silly husband!

I hope you had a lovely Sunday and spent time with someone you love!

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