Ultimate Nachos book giveaway
I met Lee in Austin when he was in town for SXSW a few years back. We were friends of friends, and thus Twitter friends, when I lived in Brooklyn, but failed to meet IRL there. At the interactive conference, I shared with him my agent, whom I adore, and a few months down the line learned of a pending book deal. And now that book is sitting on my dining room table!
Beyond being friends with Lee, it’s a no-brainer that I’m going to spread the good word about my favorite food ever, nachos and nacho-affiliated things such as chips and salsa and margaritas and guacamole. Even though my new relationship with a dairy-free lifestyle precludes me from nacho cheesey hootenany, I’m here to represent from my 31 years loving them fiercely.
I love the dedication of an entire book on all things nacho (a possible NPR show guys, no?) and the diversity of recipes from food columnists, chefs, actual Mexicans (who offer their twist on this non-traditional dish). This book reaffirms my belief that just about any food can be placed atop a tortilla chip and called a meal. You’ll find many a great idea tucked into this book, like the one below from Melissa Clark at the NYT.
Perhaps the most fun section is the dessert nachos section, which I will let you explore on your own. I’m totally going to mess with this avocado ice cream recipe (which is mostly dairy free) to make it the rest of the way dairy free.
Please leave a comment on this post by [the giveaway is now closed, thank you for entering] telling us about a recent or memorable experience with something that melts, be it cheese on nachos, your heart at the sight of something sweet or the popsicle you ate outside last week. Winner will be selected at random on Friday June 28. US entrants only please, per the publisher’s request. Don’t forget to include your email address in the little box that asks for it on the comment form so I can contact you to let you know you won.
Disclosures: St. Martin’s Press provided me with a complimentary copy of this book and will be mailing the winner’s copy directly. If you buy the book from Amazon using the link above I may earn a small commission.
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Reader Comments (24)
I live for cheese. Cheese is amazing. Favorite recent cheese experience? I had a quesadilla for lunch last week. That was bitching.
This book looks wonderful. I would love to see all the different Nacho options. I love melted cheese on anything. It makes me so happy. I lived as a vegan for a year and the replacement cheeses just didn't do the trick. It would bring tears to my eyes seeing melted, gooey cheese on things. Great giveaway.
My favorite thing that melts is ice cream! Although I'm discovering that I feel unwell after consuming milk so this might be(come) the summer of sorbet. I am recently obsessed with popsicles and made the most delicious pineapple coconut ones with a hint of ginger—YUM.
The Huz is *crazy* about nachos. He would drool all over this book.
Recently had queso at our favorite Mexi Restaurant. Love watching my little cutie patootie try to get the chip to his mouth before the queso drips off the chip.
While I love melty cheese in just about any form, the most recent melty thing was my heart, watching the end-of-year video at my daughter's Kindergarten graduation :)
Melty cheese may be one of the greatest things in the world, especially on anything Mexican influenced. There has even been research on why melty cheese tastes so good--I would have loved to have been a taste-tester!
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/fyi-why-does-cheese-taste-better-when-its-melted
Love melting ice cream on a warm fruit crepe!
Ooey gooey cheese on a panini!!
My favorite thing that melts is ice cream over warm pie/tart! I made a mixed berry galette last week, and the vanilla bean ice cream a la mode made it even better! This book looks so good. I'm a nacho addict. If I could eat them everyday, I would!
Love salsa and nachos. My favorite food that melts--chocolate.
Though my dad and I have a ton of fun cooking together, we're both so naturally competitive that we often slip into show-off mode. On one occasion, eager to demonstrate my culinary knowledge and embellish the dinner we were preparing for guests, I suggested we throw some cheese on the grill. "Grill cheese?" my father asked. "Oh yeah, you've never done that?" I said cockily, with succulent cookbook & blogosphere images of grilled halloumi shuffling through my head. Only problem was that I forgot it was hollumi, recalling instead that it was mozzarella. Which we happened to have on hand. Until I sliced it up and threw it on the grill. Where it promptly melted into a fairly greasy burnt mess.
My favorite thing at the bar is what they call a Brooklyn Style grilled cheese--it has bacon and fresh tomatoes. Very melty!
Melted french vanilla ice cream on an apple pie.
I love ice cream melting on a cone in the hot summer sun.
Just made fresh cheese from my overabundance of raw milk. It was spreadable and delicious. I will be experimenting with cheesemaking over the next few months.
Melted cheese on anything is awesome. Nachos, grilled cheese sandwiches.....mmm.
Unusually, I was at a taqueria earlier this week and had disappointing nachos! They gave me the nachos in a to-go box and the cheese was a combo of melted-and-resolidified or simply not melted at all. It turned into a wall of cheese that I had to break down in order to get to the chips at the bottom. Clearly I should make them myself with this book.
I recently made caramel corn for the first time (curry coconut!) and was frankly surprised at the melty mess turning into such an easy-to-eat snack. But, by far one of my favorite things around is nachos. The BF and I make them at home for special occasions, and are always on the lookout for new spots to order them from. IMO, good nacho making is pure art. Would love to dig into this book.
I adore nachos!
Let's see, you're going to make me tell on myself here, but I was totally craving ice cream this week and I bought some Graeter's ice cream (if you haven't had it, you should) but couldn't wait until I got home, so I had a few spoonfuls in the car on the ride home...it was going to get melty in the SW heat anyway, right? :-)
Cheese is possibly our family's number one staple. One doesn't like meat and 2 others don't like vegetables so I use cheese to blend everything so the whole family can enjoy. But my Favorite melting product by far has to be BUTTER! It has to be natures delicacy. As plain as it might be I love to sit down with a guest and serve bread and butter with Sweet tea. It doesn't get any better than that.
I love a good melted marshmallow goo.
Idea: S'more nachos. Start with unsalted tortilla chips. Cover with marshmallows and grated chocolate. Place in oven until golden gooey, sprinkle with cinnamon and serve warm.
My husband and I took our 5 year old daughter out for ice cream after her very first ballet recital last Friday. She had strawberry ice cream with a cherry on top, and I had a chocolate raspberry truffle sundae. It was a big night for all of us -- celebrating our girl over a special treat.
Reading this post & the comments is making me hungry! I love goopy, messy nachos. And reading all those ice cream comments lead me to think about hot fudge sauce melting vanilla ice cream. BTW, have you tried the Daiya non-dairy cheese? I picked it up at Whole Foods & didn't like it straight out of the bag. It's pretty decent melted, though. There's a spicy one (maybe pepper jack?) that I really like melted on tortillas.
Something that melts...that would be the rock hard stick of butter my teenager put in our microwave last week. It was too hard for her toast. But she forgot it was in the microwave, so then it was nice and soft and all over the bottom of the microwave. She went ahead and put the melted butter in the butter dish into the freezer. That dripped all over the container of paella.
Then she left it all there.
Teenagers are SO MUCH FUN.