Eight-Layer Dip

Since I've been doing a lot of cooking lately, and the Superbowl was a long time ago, I thought I'd post my eight-layer dip recipe.  I meant to post it the weekend of the superbowl when I made it, but time ran away from me.  Also, this blog has kind of landed on the back burner after my reading and book blogging.  But life is still good.  The food's great!  Anyways, here's the recipe now.

Ingredients:

• 2-3 cups shredded lettuce (I typically just grab one bag of shredded lettuce from the store)
• 1 9-oz can bean dip (in the chip aisle)
• 1/4 cup picante or taco sauce (I get this ingredient in a weird and obscure way explained later)
• 1 6-oz avocado dip (or if you're me, fresh guacamole from the store works)
• 1 8-oz sour cream
• 1 cup shredded cheddar or taco cheese (just pick your favorite cheese and use it)
• 1/4 cup sliced green onions
• 2 tbsp sliced pitted ripe olives (or a whole small can if you like olives - I do!)
• 2/3 cup chopped, seeded tomato (basically a medium tomato because the more the merrier, right?)
• chips (well duh!)

Preparation:

1. Arrange lettuce on a serving platter.  My serving platter looks like a 2.2 qt pyrex dish (because I'm hip like that).  If you'd rather use a 3 qt dish, double the recipe.  
2. Combine bean dip and picante sauce.  Now personally, I don't use picante sauce (because Jared dislikes picante sauce).  So how do I come up with a 1/4 cup of taco sauce when I've never seen taco sauce at stores?  I buy the tack seasoning packets and mix in the amount of water on the package directions.  Then I use 1/4 cup of that mixture for my taco sauce.  And guess what?  It works!  (Note: if you use too much water in your weird taco sauce mixture, the bottom of your serving platter can get a little moist.)  Now back to the preparation spread bean dip/picante sauce over lettuce.
3. Layer the avocado dip on top of the bean/picante dip.
4. Layer the sour cream on top of the avocado dip.
5. Top with cheese, green onions, and olives.  If you're me, then the sour cream is hidden after all the cheese, onions, and olives that get dumped on the dip.
6. Cover and chill for 4-24 hours.  Why?  Because I said so.
7. Before serving, chop the tomato and sprinkle it on top of the dip (now everything's hidden by tomatoes - if you prepare this dip like me).
8. Eat with chips.  Try to eat more than your husband who maybe likes the dip a little more than you'd like (because it's gone before you know it).