Ranch Hummus

It's easy to make, it's packed with flavor and it's perfect for parties as it makes enough to feed a small crowd!

I mean who wouldn't want to eat veggies when this dip is sitting around?? I myself quickly started to lose track of how many veggies I'd eaten. Dip after dip after dip.

This potato salad only takes 5 ingredients — red potatoes, cheddar cheese, salty crispy bacon, creamy ranch dressing and sliced green onions. What's not to love there? Yeah, this is a side dish you'll have on repeat especially during these warmer months ahead.

Cheddar Bacon Ranch Potato Salad

What makes this potato salad with bacon easy to make and why it calls for so few ingredients is because instead of a homemade potato salad dressing, it's made with a bottle of ranch dressing. I know, normally I'm all about making things from scratch but sometimes when I find a good product, I love a good shortcut.

I made this potato salad with the new Hidden Valley® Ranch Simply Ranch Dressing. I'm actually really excited about this product! It's bottled ranch dressing made without any artificial flavors, preservatives or colors.

Instead it's made with real ingredients like buttermilk, garlic, onion, herbs and spices and I like it better than the original! It has a delicious flavor and of course that same classic velvety smooth creamy texture.

Don't miss out on trying the ranch with this loaded potato salad recipe, it's the perfect spring and summer side dish! You can't go wrong with that bacon cheddar ranch flavor combo.

Cheddar Bacon Ranch Potato Salad Ingredients

For this loaded potato salad, you'll need:

• Red potatoes
• Bacon
• Hidden Valley Simply Ranch Dressing
• Green onions
• Shredded cheddar cheese

How to Make Potato Salad with Bacon

• Boil the potatoes until fully tender, then drain and let cool.
• In a large bowl, toss together the cooled potatoes, ranch dressing, crumbled bacon, sliced green onions and shredded cheese.
• Serve immediately or chill up to 24 hours before serving.

How Long Should I Boil Potatoes for Potato Salad?

This is a red potato salad recipe, so you'll need dice the potatoes into 1-inch chunks and then boil for around 10 minutes. Add the red potatoes to a pot of cold water, then bring to a boil. This will give you super tender potatoes for your potato salad.

Can I Use Another Type of Cheese?

Yes, feel free to use any shredded cheese you have on hand in this recipe. I personally like sharper cheeses, like cheddar, in this recipe, otherwise it gets overwhelmed by the other ingredients.

Tips for the Best Potato Salad

• If you want the bacon to be crispy when you serve this loaded potato salad, serve it immediately after making. The bacon loses its crispiness the longer it sits in the dressing.
• Feel free to reserve some of the crumbled bacon and sliced green onions for garnishing the potato salad.
• Taste the potato salad after you've combined all the ingredients, and add salt and pepper if needed.

More Potato Salad Recipes You'll Love:

• Potato Salad {The Best! With How-To Video}
• Garlic-Herb Potato Salad
• Greek Potato Salad
• Moroccan Sweet Potato Salad

More Easy Side Dishes to Try:

• Mexican Macaroni Salad
• Three Bean Salad
• Classic Macaroni Salad
• Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

Easy Bacon Cheddar Ranch Dip Recipe

This tastes just like a cheese ball but in a creamier more dipable, no cracker-breaking form! I made it the week before Thanksgiving and loved it so I decided to make it to have around for the holidays with all the company we'd be having. You can never have enough tasty appetizers when it comes to hosting! This dip would be perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas, game day, game nights, birthday parties, after-school snacks....

Let's just say everyone was coming back for more at my house, and they'll be loving it at your house, too!

Ingredients for Ranch Dip

• Sour cream
• Neufchatel Cheese or cream cheese
• Ranch dressing mix or seasoning pack
• Green onions
• Cheddar
• Bacon or bacon bits
• Parsley (for garnish)

It's the Ultimate Veggie and Cracker Dip

When I know this is in the fridge I just keep reaching in and grabbing some veggies to dive into this dip. I love everything about it. I mean with ingredients like bacon, cheddar and ranch how could you go wrong? All the best things in one incredible dip that is destined to please. And the instructions? Just mix it all up!

Serve this delicious crack dip with:

• Potato chips
• Celery sticks
• Carrots
• Tortilla Chips
• Bell Peppers
• Broccoli & cauliflower
• Cherry tomatoes

This will be a regular on my holiday menu and maybe take over that yearly holiday cheese ball tradition my mom used to have. It's absolutely delicious and perfectly irresistible. Make it soon and enjoy!

Just FYI if you don't like things very salty you can use low-sodium bacon or you can add a little more sour cream to balance out the salt from the ranch seasoning packets. My family likes a bit of salt so it was perfect for us but if you don't like much salt then adjust accordingly. You can also make a thick dip more loose by adding a splash of buttermilk.

What I love most about this recipe is that you can make it ahead of time. You can whip it up in a medium bowl before heading to any family function, just be sure and cover it with Glad Press'n Seal Wrap beforehand and leave it to chill in the fridge until ready to eat.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Glad & Hidden Valley Ranch. The opinions and text are all mine.

I love a warm bowl of homestyle potato soup, which is why I decided to give it an upgrade. I grew up eating a lot of meat and potato meals. I don't think my mom ever missed a Sunday dinner of roast beef and mashed potatoes (and NEVER the instant potatoes, I didn't even know they existed growing up). So, basically, potatoes are one food I could never part with. One of my favorite dinner sides is Twice Baked Potatoes.

The inspiration for this soup came from those incredibly delicious Twice Baked Potatoes, those dreamy, creamy potatoes that are loaded with Cheddar cheese, sprinkled with browned crispy bacon and chopped green onions then they're finished off with a generous drizzling of creamy Ranch dressing. It's the perfect soup to serve for a winter party or Super Bowl game day!

Yeah, all of that in soup form, and this Cheesy Bacon Ranch Potato soup better be good right? It's my new favorite potato soup—I'm not sure if I'll be able to eat the traditional plain old potato soup anymore. This stuff is just too flavorful and cheesily delicious to look back to that soup again =).

This recipe may seem a little different, I didn't make a roux to add the flour, rather I whisked it into the milk. I didn't want to add butter because the mayonnaise already replaced the fat and creaminess of what butter would do.

I also chose to use sharp cheddar cheese because in my opinion when you use sharp you can use less cheese (than if you were to use mild or medium) and therefore you're adding fewer calories (don't get me wrong this isn't a low-calorie soup, I just try to lightly reduce calories where I can).

I decided to leave the carrot and celery out of this recipe so it's more like a loaded or twice-baked potato but if you really wanted to you could add them.

If you want even more of a ranch flavor you could drizzle the top of the soup with additional ranch, made according to the directions on the package. I hope you love this soup as much as I do and make it often this upcoming fall and winter season! There's nothing like a perfect bowl of soup to warm a cold fall evening. Enjoy!