Crazy Good Salmon Party Spread

Ingredients:

- 2 x 8oz. packages vegetable light cream cheese
- 3 x 6oz. cans boneless & skinless salmon
- 4 Tbsp. ketchup
- 2 Tbsp. creamy horseradish sauce
- 1 Red Bell Pepper, chopped fine
- 1 Bunch green onions or chives, chopped
- Baby Dill Pickles, Crackers, & Paprika for garnish

Drain salmon well, mix with cream cheese, ketchup, and horseradish sauce.  Fold in finely chopped red bell pepper and green onions (or chives); add by the hand-full and mix until it looks right.  Chill for at least one hour and serve on cucumber or zucchini round slices, cocktail breads, Melba crackers, or regular baked crackers.  Serve with Baby Dill Pickles.

Yield is about 20 – 24 servings; if you want to cut the recipe in half, use 1 package of cream cheese and 1 can of boneless & skinless salmon.  I often made this for work and got rave reviews.  People who don’t like fish really liked this Salmon Party Spread because they said “it doesn’t taste fishy.”

My friend Mandy is just crazy about this Salmon Party Spread; she says it’s more addicting than crack.  I have heard on occasion that when she is eating her Salmon Party Spread, she will not share it with her relatives, or her husband, because it’s just too good to share.

Mandy says to get the full culinary experience you have to take a bite of the cracker/salmon spread, and then a bite of the pickle, another bite of the cracker/salmon spread, and then another bite of pickle . . . 

Recipe from (my mom) Kathy Nye, Kathy’s Kountry Kitchen cookbook, page 8.

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