How Do I Fix My Messed Up Party Dip?
Unfortunately about the only way to make something less salty is to add more non-salty things. You could try another package of cream cheese or, if the dip’s a little on the thick side, you could try thinning it out with cream (milk would work fine, too). Be careful if you add a liquid–you might turn it into soup before you get the salt content down enough to make it palatable. Incidentally, I doubt that the problem was in substituting sundried tomatoes for sundried tomato pesto, which is probably just some combination of sundried tomatoes, garlic, and pine nuts. To be honest I would have been hesitant before making the dip– olives and feta are both super-salty and sundried tomatoes can be salty. So you could blame it, at least in part, on Trader Joe’s. For future reference: you might have been better off processing it a little less or even cutting the olives and tomatoes with a knife and then folding them into the feta/cream cheese mix, tasting as you went. That way you’d get some v
