Spicy Cheese & Shrimp Dip

• 2-4 8oz Cream Cheese (depends on the crowd size)
• 1 tsp fresh ground pepper
• 1 tsp butter
• 1 Dash Salt
• 2 Jalapeno's (optional depending on your hot flavor)
• 1 10 oz. can Rotel Tomatoes & Green Chiles (this can be optional type depending on your taste, I recommend this one however)
• 1/2 lb shrimp (I recommend Tiger type shrimp chopped up in bite size peices)
• Fresh Garlic (add to your taste, but fresh is better even if it is from the jar)
• 4-6 chopped chive type green onions (I have subsituted with chopped dried onions)
• 1 Loaf Hawaiian Bread (King Hawaiian is the best)

1. Melt butter in 2-4 quart pan add chopped chives and garlic, then add the cream cheese to pan one block at a time. Use low heat to melt evenally while not buring the cheese.
2. If using Jalapenos chop up and put into small pan with enough butter to soften the peppers, or an optional method is in the microwave for 3 minutes.
3. Tip:
4. You can do the microwave trick with onions, peppers, jalapenos, or any other tough item you add to food. I trick my mother taught and I use often for absolutely any recipe requiring these foods and you want hem softened.
5. Add the Rotel tomatoes, salt, pepper, Chopped shrimp (don't cook Tiger on run cold water of them).
6. Pull out the center of the Kings Hawaiian loaf and make small dipping peices of bread to place around the loaf. Place loaf on large platter with the pieces around it. Place Dip when fully melted and mixed into the center of the bread.
7. And ENJOY!

cream cheese, ground pepper, butter, salt, tomatoes, shrimp, garlic, chive type, hawaiian bread

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/spicy-cheese-shrimp-dip-1239679 (may not work)