Nico Nachos are a speciality of mine and is the most common item I make when playing hostess. I started doing this when I was about 11 for my best friend Christina and I when we were sent home from the Elm Grove pool because of almost daily summertime thunderstorm threats. The original Nico Nachos consisted of just layering a fuckton of Hill Country Fare shredded cheese on tortilla chips, microwaving it perfectly*, and adding a lot of sour cream.
Nico Nachos evolved into adding veggies for my ex-boyfriend's poker friends who had the munchies** and making intricate nacho lunches for him. I would have the individual nacho ingredients in separate tiny plastic containers and steps on when to add each during the heating up process***. Sometimes I would highlight special ingredients I found in the fridge, like black olives with a lunchtime note like "Olive you!" or "Nacho ordinary girlfriend!" Although he would profess that he absolutely loved my nachos, he never mentioned my cute puns. Sometimes I think he actually kept me around just for my nachos (also, sex).
Anyhow, yesterday I found myself alone with my BFF Laura's boyfriend Josh in le Garage de Fromage as we waited for her to be done with bridal shower Maid of Honor duties. "How about some nachos?" I asked.
I started to shred some Redneck Cheddar and looked in my fridge for other Nico Nacho staples and became worried. I was out of sour cream. Sour cream was as essential to Nico Nachos as cheese or tortilla chips.
I grabbed the most-like-sour-cream items I could muster and came up with this "guacamole" which to my delight turned out extremely tasty. Don't be scared of the ingredients.
Nico Nacho Avocado Sauce
1 1/2 small avocados
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
1/2 cup of ricotta cheese
a lot of salt and pepper
diced onion
Mix the ricotta and mayo together until it has a smooth, sour creamesque consistency. Add more mayo for creamier, more ricotta if is is too mayo-like (the amounts listed above are just guesses on what I eyeballed). Add a lot of salt and pepper at this point - when you pray this concoction could be consumed.
Add mixture to scooped out avocado and spoon until mixture looks more like guacamole than the grossest sundae ever. Add onion, probably some more salt and pepper, and voila! I was surprised it worked.
That's my no sour cream on Nico Nachos last minute substitution. Josh didn't even bat an eye at it and chowed down like a good friend.
*an art
**they LOVED me for this
***hi, I'm the best girlfriend ever. And I'm single.
Nico Nachos evolved into adding veggies for my ex-boyfriend's poker friends who had the munchies** and making intricate nacho lunches for him. I would have the individual nacho ingredients in separate tiny plastic containers and steps on when to add each during the heating up process***. Sometimes I would highlight special ingredients I found in the fridge, like black olives with a lunchtime note like "Olive you!" or "Nacho ordinary girlfriend!" Although he would profess that he absolutely loved my nachos, he never mentioned my cute puns. Sometimes I think he actually kept me around just for my nachos (also, sex).
Anyhow, yesterday I found myself alone with my BFF Laura's boyfriend Josh in le Garage de Fromage as we waited for her to be done with bridal shower Maid of Honor duties. "How about some nachos?" I asked.
I started to shred some Redneck Cheddar and looked in my fridge for other Nico Nacho staples and became worried. I was out of sour cream. Sour cream was as essential to Nico Nachos as cheese or tortilla chips.
I grabbed the most-like-sour-cream items I could muster and came up with this "guacamole" which to my delight turned out extremely tasty. Don't be scared of the ingredients.
Nico Nacho Avocado Sauce
1 1/2 small avocados
3 tablespoons of mayonnaise
1/2 cup of ricotta cheese
a lot of salt and pepper
diced onion
Mix the ricotta and mayo together until it has a smooth, sour creamesque consistency. Add more mayo for creamier, more ricotta if is is too mayo-like (the amounts listed above are just guesses on what I eyeballed). Add a lot of salt and pepper at this point - when you pray this concoction could be consumed.
Add mixture to scooped out avocado and spoon until mixture looks more like guacamole than the grossest sundae ever. Add onion, probably some more salt and pepper, and voila! I was surprised it worked.
That's my no sour cream on Nico Nachos last minute substitution. Josh didn't even bat an eye at it and chowed down like a good friend.
*an art
**they LOVED me for this
***hi, I'm the best girlfriend ever. And I'm single.
0 comments:
Post a Comment