Brett and I are absolutely NOT into big sporting events, such as the Super Bowl. No big shocker to anyone that knows us. Sports are just not our thing. Buuuuut we DID think it'd be fun to have Super Bowl event food for our dinner the night of the big game (yes, this posting is really late). While out shopping I was envisioning tater skins, poppers, wings, etc, but Brett reigned me in - we were planning to pull some of his really good Wendy's recipe chili out of the freezer (this batch used one of dad's home-smoked chipotles!), and along with that I wanted to try making us some mega-nachos. Here's the really good chili on top of rice, with a sprinkling of cheddar. Mmmm - can't go wrong with that!
And for the nachos I wanted to do it up a notch, and try a recipe I'd seen for Emeril's Crazy Nachos - where you make your own pork topping, salsa AND queso. Ok, screw all that - we decided the extra meat wasn't necessary, and that we'd just top the melty cheese covered chips with the homemade queso. Only I didn't have the right ingredients (we subbed canned chilis for the poblanos, and cream cheese and extra chilis for the pepperjack cheese, and added crumbled sausage). Maybe it was the substitutions, or maybe Emeril's queso really ain't all that crazy. Either way - we thought it was very lackluster...so we started doctoring it up - garlic salt, chili powder, cumin, cayenne, etc - we tried lots of additions...and just ended up with this murky looking blah stuff:
Blech. Whatever we didn't eat got pitched, and we won't be making that recipe again...
There - see, something we didn't like, posted for all to see! ;-)
7 comments:
You should start a support group where we all post food disaster photos or something. Just to warn others off doing the things we did.
I would definitely have some additions.
Like tofu. WHY WOULD I MAKE TOFU? Grossness.
Finny Knits has a good idea - food we made that embarrasses us.
But Sharon is wrong: you never have to post the bad stuff. Just send me an e-mail about it so we can both laugh.
LOL That's not a bad idea actually!
And c'mon Peter - we should all share equally. And then we can laugh at/with each other in a big group hug.
Here's the best part - so I know that Jeph is so not into sports. So when I called him that day ask him a cooking question (like I do about once a month), he answers the phone with "Oh my god did you just see that play? Wasn't it awesome?"
I was dying laughing because it was about 4pm, 2.5 hours before the Superbowl even started. HAHAHAHAHA. It was freaking hilarious!
But OTHERWISE I sounded like I knew what I was talking about....riiiiight!?
Ah, Jeph, you truly are butch.
Funny, Brett's been trying to convince me of just the opposite today. I finished the first of a pair of new socks last nite, and today I'm etching glass on the flour/sugar/tea holding glass canisters. ;-)
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