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Cinco de Mayo Nachos

Woke with a mystery cough and feeling the kind of low that I decided to make another doctor's appointment.  Somehow P was on the upswing, so I rode with him to get groceries to Fairway by the water.  I needed to get it up for my team and try to pull off a celebrational dish for the holiday.  I've never made a cheese sauce before and thought that might be interesting for steak nachos.  It was good, but a different nacho experience entirely.  I felt bad because I could enjoy the fresh take but P is not a wet nacho type of guy.  He likes traditional cheese on chips with a jalapeno, extras on the side that you can dip and add but nothing smothered like this.  You would think after so many years, I would never falter but the truth is I had been obsessed with watching Sam the Cooking Guy on YouTube at night and he drove me to this sauce.  I had to make it.  We have a similar take on food and I found an odd culinary compadre during lockdown.

A midday quesadilla snack treat

Pico de gallo, Chipotle salsa and guacamole starters

Making the basics is not hard at all but there is a lot of chopping, roasting, mashing, mixing and blending so after I got this little trio made I took a long nap before finishing the job.

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