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As everyone knows, I love food. So why not a recipe thread.

In this post I will explain nacho recipe number 7. This is not the "best" nacho recipe, not even close. But that recipe takes all day (everything is scratch or close to it) and it's very expensive. Not to mention, I'll take that one to my grave.

This recipe, on the other hand, is great because it is pretty quick to prepare, is not too hard on the wallet and still tastes outstanding. It also seems to appeal to the widest audience since it's a mix of mexican and american tastes.

Finally, this recipe is prepared "dip style", like a seven-layer dip. The reason for that is when you're entertaining a lot of people you don't want your nachos just sitting around for an hour or two, because they quickly lose their appeal (chips get soggy, everything all picked over, etc). You want the first chip to taste as good as the last.

I gaurantee this will be a huge hit at the superbowl parties. Prep time, your first time making them, will be about two hours. After you've done it once or if you have help you can get it down to an hour.

Ingredients:

2 tomatoes, diced. Don't use the squishy stuff, just the firm stuff around the outside.
1 lime
1 yellow onion, diced
1 bunch of green onions, chopped
1 belle pepper, red or green, diced
1 bunch of cilantro, chopped
1 clove of garlic, minced
16 oz of sour cream

8 - 10oz of refried beans (either make your own or buy from a mexican restaurant, don't use the canned stuff, trust me!)

2 packages of taco seasoning (this is one of the big time savers)

1 pound of decent ground beef (80% or better)

12 ounces of fresh grated medium cheddar (don't use the pre-shredded - it's awful, and don't use sharp - too overpowering)
12 ounces of fresh grated monterey jack

Some Chips. Chip selection is important. Ideally, you want low or no salt chips that are good and strong (thick). A mexican place will whip some up for you. In the stores, a decent choice is tostitos gold, but sometimes they're too salty. Since several of the ingredients in this recipe have salt, you don't want salt on the chips if you can avoid it.

Optional if you like:

jalapenos (yes please!)
diced green chiles (sometimes)
Guac (no thanks!)
black olives (dizguztin)

Brown the meat. Constantly chop it up with a spatula to make it as "minced" as possible (leave no big "chunks"), drain and return to pan. Add the diced yellow onion, garlic, both packets of taco seasoning and about a 8 - 10oz of water. Bring that to light boil and lower to a simmer. That will simmer for 20 mins to a half hour to make the meat melt in your mouth and not break the chips during scooping. In the last five minutes of simmering, squeeze the juice from half a lime into it. When the water is mostly boiled off, it's done. Make sure you don't leave a lot of water or the result will be soupy.

Next, get all your vegies chopped and your cheeses grated. You might also stir the sour cream to increase smoothness and consistency. Don't leave them sitting out, put them in the fridge until needed.

Take the tomatoes, belle pepper, cilantro and juice from the other half lime, put them in a bowl and stir them up. Optionally, a little vinegar is a nice touch.

When the meat is done, pour it into a caserole dish. 4 quart recommened (this recipe makes a lot). Use a spatula to spread the refried beans on top of the meat evenly. Next, put a light handful of each cheese on top of the beans. Put this in the oven at 350 until the cheese is just barely melted.

Pull from the oven and add half of your salsa on top. If you like quac, spread that evenly over it all. Now spread the sour cream evenly over the top of that. Then comes the cheese, put all of the remaining cheese on top. Finally, put the remainder of your salsa on top of the cheese. Then put your sliced green onion on, and any optional extras, like jalapenos, olives, etc.

Put all this in the still warm oven for about two minutes, just long enough to *soften* but not really melt the cheese on top.

Voila! The result looks and tastes great. This will feed about 8 - 10 people and will cost about $30 in ingredients. Make sure to establish double-dipping rules before the eating begins.

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That sounds good. I will have to get my fiance's taco lasagnia recipie to put up here, it is soooooo good.

by the way, all the ingrediants couldent be from scratch on that other recipe. At least, not if you mean all by scratch. I don't know many people that make their own cheese. Of course looking at it from the other way, Do I?

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When I make nachos I add a little bit of oregano to them. Gives them a bit of a unique flavor. Just a thought.

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Yup - gotta season the meat with oregano for the right flavor

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Ingredients:

1 egg

Cooking Instructions:

Put oil into a frying pan, then break egg into pan and fry both sides of the eggs until golden brown.



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Hey Mac, if you stir it around a bit before putting it into the pan, you can get a WHOLE NEW kind of cooked egg!!!

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Oh i dunno, that sounds kinda complicated.

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If you break the egg, and then drop it into the pan from a few feet up you get a different kind of egg too!

Not quite as complacated, but it depends on your RL aim.

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Put a hole into the middle of a buttered (both sides) piece of bread, throw that into the frying pan and break the egg into the middle of the hole. Cook both sides.

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Ohhhh, nice, gotta try that one Boingo!

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Boingo_Babe wrote:
Put a hole into the middle of a buttered (both sides) piece of bread, throw that into the frying pan and break the egg into the middle of the hole. Cook both sides.

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ya, thats a bachelors favorite..

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Deunan wrote:
ya, thats a bachelors favorite.. 


Ah, now I know why I never heared of it. I was never a batchlor! (Hooked up with my sweetheart at the tender age of 15, graduated with her, got married at 19 and the rest, as they say, is history! Tell you the trueth, glad I never had to do the hunting thing, she found me and it was a very comfortable love at first sight thing. )

Now, for Twice Baked Potatoes!

Stuff:
One baking potato per person (large and in charge ones, at least the size of your fist) If more then 2 people, buy an extra one.
Sour Cream
Butter
Scallions or green onions
Salt, Pepper
Heavy or Light Cream
Cheese, bacon, whatever you want to top with.

(We are going to go with 3 potatoes for this)
Clean and dry 3 potatoes, pop in microwave for 12 minutes or potato 3. Beep, Beep, check them, if they are soft good, if not nail them again.

(All Soft) Ready, take a knife and cut straight across the top so you have a decent size hole in the skin. Scoop it out well, as close to the skin as you can with out ripping through. Place the meat in a bowl to the side. Put skin shells on a baking pan.
Add about a tablespoon of Sour cream, salt and pepper to taste, 2 finely chopped scallions, a few dashes of garlic power (if you like garlic, add a little more.) Now, beat the crap out of it. If you have one of those hand choppy thingys, that'll work well, if not a regular beater on 3 is fine. This will turn into a dough like paste, now add Half of a stick of butter while beating, let melt and mix in. Start adding Cream, the consistancy should be stiff still, not soupy, but don't worry! If you over liquify, add some powderd potatoes (just a little!) untill it stiffens back up. (You can use flour in a pinch)

Now, STUFF! Fill them shells right up and then some! Make a volcano hole in the top with your spoon, and put a good slice (1/4 inch thick) of butter in there! Now, I don't add anything else, but You can add some bacon and cheese on top, or whatever you like. Have fun with it.
Bake at 425 untill the stuff on top is melted. Done!

Best served with a good, juicy grilled steak or barbque chicken.

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well i dunno if this is really a recipe but its something we should all enjoy!


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This is my favorite recipe:


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Flak Monkey wrote:
This is my favorite recipe:


http://www.papamurphys.com/ 


well, i still give you credit for cooking.. I mean, you do have to put it in the oven all by yourself. hee hee

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