It's 8 o'clock and Hubby tells me "I'm hungry", then makes a sad face. I ask him what he wants, he tells me a snack... Okay, think... we have no popcorn, only a handfull of potato chips... mmmm, chips, we have a third of a bag of stale tortilla chips, and since I was planning on mexican one night and a casserole of some sort... I have cheese, sour cream, refried beans... mmm, nachos! Being weird about melted cheese I prefer cheese sauce to stringy clumpy chewy melted
So I pull my ingrediants out of the fridge and turn the oven on to 350 degrees (by the way, I'm annoyed that there isn't a little degrees circle thingy on my keyboard, I looked and I don't see one)
Please ignore the ice tea maker with iced tea drippings on it... Thank You :)
Stale Tostitos Scoops, refried beans, sharp cheddar, pepper jack, a jar of jalepenos, scallions, butter, flower, milk, salt and red pepper flakes.
I put a little drop of beans in each scoop then I put it in the oven... stale chips are stale because they came in contact with moisture, so putting them in the oven crisps them back up...
Then I melted a tablespoon of butter, and added a tablespoon of flour to make a roux... I heated up a cup of milk in the microwave for 1 minute.
When my flour started to brown I slowy added the milk, stirring frequently so it didn't burn, but allowing it to bubble so it got thick. I ended up not using the whole cup of milk, but how much you will need depends on the roux and how thick it becomes... this is another eyeballing thing. Then I added grated cheese, about 3/4 or 2/3 of a cup... I didnt measure it... It was about a handfull and a half :)
I also added a good palm full of chopped jalepenos, a pinch of salt and 2 dashes of red pepper flakes... I didn't think it was spicey enough so I added a large dash of cayenne pepper...
I took the chips out of the oven and drizzeled more than enough cheese sauce over them, I added some dallops of sour cream and topped them of with scallions (which I always cut with my food scissors because I think it's easier than chopping)
It was soooooo yummy! Tasted exactly like Nachos Bell Grande from Taco Bell, except my chips were crispy :) It disappeared very quickly!
Try it!
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