Corn Dip

Now this is a perfect summer dip.  Here are the ingredients:
- 1 can of black beans
- 1 can of white shoepeg corn
- 3 or 4 ounces of reduced fat Feta cheese
- 1/4 cup of apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup of olive oil
- 1/2 a lime squeezed for juice or two tablespoons of lime juice
- 1/8 cup of splenda/sugar blend

For the can of beans and corn, strain and rinse them.  Put them in a bowl of a container.  I find that one of the medium size ziploc containers holds this perfectly. Add the feta cheese and vinegar.  I use a little less than 1/4 cup of olive oil just to cut down on the fat.  Add the lime juice.  For my splenda sugar blend for this, I do mostly splenda with a little bit of regular sugar.  Then just stir it all together and serve with a bowl of chips.  I prefer having it chilled, which makes it perfect for summer.  I also think that the flavors blend and taste better once it is cold.

My favorite chips with this are the Tostitos hint of lime or hint of jalapeno.  The black bean and garlic ones are pretty good with it too.

Enjoy!

Welcome to my blog!

Hello to the blogging world...I am clearly new to this so I'll just tell you a little bit about me.  My name is Tory and I live in Richmond, Virginia with my husband and two amazing, crazy dogs.  We purchased our house two and a half years ago and got married very soon thereafter. I have a new love for doing crafts and an even bigger love for baking.

I grew up LOVING sweets.  So, it wouldn't surprise you at all for me to say that I am a type one diabetic.  I was diagnosed when I was thirteen...after a morning of making Christmas cookies with one of my sisters.  My love of baking came soon after my diagnosis.  I have been put in charge of all of the holidays desserts in my family.  The reason: everything that I make is reduced sugar, reduced fat. And from what I'm told and what I can taste, it all tastes amazing.  My husband previously didn't like sweets.....now he can't get enough and constantly asks me to make things for him.

At any rate, I decided to start this blog because I figure that I have something to offer to people out there who love their sweets but are tired of all the fat and sugar in them. Hope I can capture some sort of an audience that will appreciate my toiling in the kitchen to find just the right combinations of ingredients to find that "oh so sweet" but not so sugary texture and fattening ingredients.