Help Me Crack the Recipe For This Dish

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Okay, there’s a regional chain that has a rather tasty appetizer that I’d like to be able to duplicate at home. I realize that I’m probably one of the few Dopers to have actually eaten the dish, but I’m hoping that some of the better cooks can give me an idea of the ratios of ingredients in it. Here’s the menu description:

The Monterey Jack and cheddar are used in a layer on the top of the dish, the center is definately creamy, making me think that there is cream mixed with the Asiago cheese. The dish also seemed to have red pepper, but that might have been the sun-dried tomatoes, and it had small amounts of a chopped green herb that I think was parsley, but I’m not sure. It’s definately not cilantro (I’ve got a mild allergy to cilantro and any dish it’s used in tastes “soapy” to me.), but might be mild green onion.

So does anyone have any suggestions about the dish or know of a similar dish?

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I’d be willing to bet that the “creamy” part is cream cheese. It seems like it’d fit with the other ingredients.

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Dang, I did a google search on that one, and so far have come up dry. There are a number of copycat recipes sites, but I couldn’t find what you are looking for. That hurts my pride, dang it!:mad: :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m going to take this as a challenge. And I think there was a thread not too long ago that had something about cloned recipes, with links too. But I can’t remember the title.

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Yeah! Somebody else who thinks cilantro tastes like soap! Down with Cilantro! Down with Corriander! Rah!

Ok, that was way too many exclamation points. :slight_smile:

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If it tastes like soap, it means you’re allergic to it. (Seriously, I read that in a cooking guide.) Supposedly, there’s a plant called culantro which enables us cilantro-allergenic to see what the big deal about cilantro is. I’ve never been able to find any to see if this true or not.

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Try this

This recipe doesn’t call for shrimp, but could be easily adapted.

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Woohoo, finally semi-authentic varification of my theory. I loathe, hate, and despise cilantro(or Satan’s putrid ass-crack weed as I more appropriately call it). But I must have a serious alergy, because it goes way beyond soap for me. It tastes about 5 parts soapy, and 99 million parts cheap perfume, Like the salsa had several tablespoons of Old Spice added. I can even taste it to an unconfortable degree if other herbs like basil are kept too close to cilantro.

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I agree with wolfman. It’s definately mayo and sour cream in there. Just like the one’s served at Rock Bottom Brewery. Be sure to bake it in a crock-dish.

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That’s pretty close, but the end result was soupy, so I’m thinking that it requires a thickener like cream cheese. More experimentation is called for.