Recently I was making my weekly sojourn to the grocery store in order to find (A) food to eat for the week, and (B) to try and find the three new flavors of M&M’s so I can vote as to out of Honey Nut, Coffee Nut, and Chili Nut (You know my vote is for Chili) which is the best. Sadly I did not find any new M&M flavors, but I did notice some snazzy new chips that caught my eye with their come-hither-ness and was drawn to them. While I might not have found any Honey, Coffee, or Chili, I instead came home with Nacho Chipotle, Jalapeno Lime, and Bacon Habanero.
Read MoreCazu Marzu: The Most Dangerous Cheese on the Planet
It’s known as The Cheese that Crawls, The Maggot Mater, The Most Dangerous Cheese on the Planet, an unpronounceable series of consonants and vowels not meant to be spoken by the human tongue, or simply as Casu Marzu. Imagine if you will a cheese crawling with maggots. This may be easy to do depending on the state of the cheese drawer in your refrigerator, but now imagine that said maggot filled chunk of cheese is actually what you’re looking for to eat and not to throw immediately in your garbage. Not only that, but that this wormy mobile chunk of cheese is a delicacy sought after the world over for who knows what reason. I sit down with fellow Nachonomics contributor Dex Gormenghast to discuss this Mal Caseus with him.
Read MoreReview: Red Rock Grill & Bar
Tri color tortilla chips, jack cheese, bacon scramble, sour cream, salsa fresca, chili
Typically I don’t like to go out to eat for breakfast or brunch. Why you ask? Because I have never in my life been to a restaurant where I can get nachos for breakfast. Or a breakfast nacho. Or any kind of nacho related thing served during the breakfast or brunch hours. When I start a review with a statement like that you can guess where this is going, that being the Red Rock Grill and Bar for some menu named “Breakfast Nachos”.
Read MoreReview: Rogue Island Local Kitchen and Bar
Pulled Pork, Pickled Red Onion, Sour Cream, Pico de Gallo, Cilantro, Vermont Cheddar
Providence “The Beehive of Industry” Rhode Island is a city I have ventured to many a time in search of the finest nachos they have to offer, though almost exclusively under the guise of NACHOPROVICON, which in turn is a way to combine some work and pleasure while attending NECRONOMICON. It’s not every year that we can celebrate the holiday of NACHOPROVICON, because it’s not a holiday, and it doesn’t occur every year. Now, while this was not an officially sanctioned NACHOPROVICON, any time one goes to Providence with the purpose of sampling some nachos while indulging in some sort of H.P. Lovecraft event, they can become possessed by the spirit of NACHOPROVICON, which is almost as good. So on this, the 79th anniversary of HPL’s death, let’s take a little trip down to Providence.
Read MoreHot Sauce and Hot Pics
This past week I had a little accident while trying to eat some lunch. I had a bag of premade Dole Southwest Salad and was planning on gussying it up with a little hot sauce, namely some homemade habanero hot sauce that had been made several months prior. Only problem is that when you have a sauce that works via fermenting, then you leave it alone in a fridge for months causing it to separate, and then you shake it up, it becomes pressurized. Now when you keep it in a glass container you can’t noticeably feel this happening, so when you open it up it is very easy to be surprised when it explodes upwards in a cloud of habanero gas which ends up in your eyes and you spend the next 5 minutes wondering if you’ve been permanently blinded. Fortunately I wasn’t and learned that I should just stick to nachos and not dabble in “salads”.
Anyhow, we have talked a little bit about hot sauce here, and in space, and covered capsaicin thoroughly in The Field Guide to Nachos, but what you should be checking out is the Illustrated History of Hot Sauces over on Nachonomics favorite First We Feast, because frankly they are killing it on the hot sauce history.
In other cryptic nacho news, allow me to present you with this image, the viewing of which is the beginning of a mysterious experience fit for a gift from The Mysterious Package Company. Could it be the beginning of something beautiful, or go absolutely nowhere at all? Only time will tell!
