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Henderson Dip owners (left to right) Becky Fix, daughter Taylor Kaiser and son Christopher Greene. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO
“BRINGING THE ’50S BACK,” CONTINUED... clothes perfectly. “We were a little worried sometimes about her fashion sense,” she says, noting a time her mom wore a paper dress to match the paper tablecloths at a rehearsal dinner. Another thing Henderson did that sometimes turned out a bit questionable was cook. Fix says she overcooked things. “Her cooking was always kind of a debatable issue in our family,” she says. “I think she thought she was pretty good at it, but I remember when [my parents] went out for dinner on a weekend with friends or something like that, we were tickled we could have Swanson TV dinners. That was a great treat for us.” Henderson did manage to make some dishes well, but those were usually for guests, like when she hosted her supper club. “When she had people over, she cooked up a storm,” Fix says. “She did twice-baked potatoes, beef stroganoff, those kind of things. But as a child in the house, we kind of always felt the company got better food than we did.” But one thing was always present, and that was the dip. “My grandma was not a very good cook,” says Christopher Greene, Henderson’s grandson (Fix’s son) and a Spokane attorney. “She has just a handful of recipes that have been passed down, and this is one of them.”
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he thick, creamy tomato-and-onion dip — which the family always called Henderson Dip — was a staple at family gatherings.
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