Stretching before strenuous activity, like football, is very important. There are roughly 50 muscles utilized in grabbing a chip and dunking it in dip and bringing it to your mouth, then another 12 muscles to consume said dipped chip. Accounting for more dips than usual this weekend, yeah, you might want to stretch a little.…
Chef Edward Lee is master of umami, adding Korean pantry staple gochujang sauce to a hearty beef chili simmered in smoky chipotle peppers and beer, which blankets a base of tortilla chips. The author of Smoke & Pickles then tops it all off with a sharp cheddar cheese, serrano pepper, and a gochujang-spiked sour cream…
The only thing better than a great beer is eating the perfect food for that particular brew. Enter Beer Bites, a cookbook companion for your craft beer cravings by the dream team of cookbook author Andrea Slonecker and writer/brewer Christian DeBenedetti. Beyond your typical pub grub is enlightened fare for people who love good beer,…
Don’t dare call Folly Beach Charleston. Though it sits just minutes from the Holy City, Folly Beach has its own culture and vibe. Millionaires and surf bums get along with Southern ease, which makes this beach town one of my faves. Rita’s Seaside Grill captures that same ethos with the best bar in town (the bar itself is…
The good thing about cheese sauce is that it makes everything it touches so much more delicious: French fries, chips, baked potatoes, meat (think about the cheesesteaks). Even broccoli is better with cheese. But the bad thing about cheese sauce is that it becomes unappetizing and congealed in almost no time flat.Enter the kitchen geniuses…
If you're going to sit down and watch a lengthy baseball game, grab a snack that will transport you right to the park without ever having to worry about leaving early to beat the traffic. Whip up some real nachos and stay through the handshakes.I use a combination of American and cheddar cheeses, lightly coated…
When I was working as a cheesemonger, I used to make this four-cheese nachos dish at the end of the day with odds and ends from the case. Experiment with different cheeses and have fun — but try and avoid blue and goat cheese. This is a great snack for movie night, and a good…
I want to talk to you about something very serious. Football season is upon us, which means pretty soon your buddies will be coming over all the time to drink your beer and eat your food. Don't disappoint your friends with sub-par stuff like frozen hot dogs charred to black or lame chips and store-bought…
There's a case to be made for pizza as the world's most perfect food. When you've got bread, sauce and cheese, there's not a whole lot to complain about. Plus, it can be topped with just about anything, it's portable and it's loved the world over. Pizza is certainly one of the world's most perfect…
There's no better place for a nachos cookbook than the shelves of the Food Republic library, and no better way to snack than updating a beloved classic. That's something we learned after replacing jack cheese with manchego and ground beef with chorizo. Now we're ruined for life. My favorite discovery since Nachos NY began is my…
There's no better place for a nachos cookbook than the shelves of the Food Republic library, and no better way to snack than combining two awesome things. That's something we learned after making these fried calamari nachos, and we're better people for it. It’s so easy to screw up seafood nachos. For instance, cheddar cheese…
There's no better place for a nachos cookbook than the shelves of the Food Republic library, and no better time for nachos than brunch. That's something we learned after making these Sunny Side Nachos, and we're better people for it."Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and nachos are the most important dish…
Since 2008, Lee Frank and Rachel Anderson have run Nachos NY, a website dedicated to exploring what the duo calls the “ultimate shareable food.” They’ve hosted Tecate-fueled walking tours and a guacamole competition held at a Brooklyn rock club. Those events made them nacho aficionados. We’d even throw out the world authorities. But with the…
We snagged this recipe for Irish nachos from Rock & Reilly's Irish Whiskey Pub in Los Angeles. It's the perfect junk food for padding out/soaking up all that we plan to imbibe on that sacred day of drinking with friends. And you'll want friends around for these nachos, the recipe yield A LOT of Irish…
Stretching before strenuous activity, like football, is very important. There are roughly 50 muscles utilized in grabbing a chip and dunking it in dip and bringing it to your mouth, then another 12 muscles to consume said dipped chip. Accounting for more dips than usual this weekend, yeah, you might want to stretch a little.…
I don't have much in the way of moderation on Fridays. Starting around 5 with office drinking and ending around 5 with street drinking is just about par for the course. I'm hitting Roseland Ballroom to see one of our favorite DJs do his crazy thing and whatever food comes my way in those first…
You know what's a beautiful thing? Our black Hawaiian president loves Americanized Mexican food. He said so himself. And I have eaten Americanized Mexican food in Hawaii. And our Swedish-Arab market analyst dude loves Harlem soul food. And Contributing Editor and knower of Jewish holidays, Matt Rodbard, is writing a book on Korean food. It…
When the FDA finally comes out with their list of Top 5 Most Important Tailgating Foods (should be any day now), I expect to see nachos close to the top. As I demonstrated recently with our other nacho-centric Test Kitchen creation, Baja Fish Nachos, a good topping can elevate a simple party dish into...dare I…
The theme of our last tailgating Test Kitchen — for me, at least — was to hybridize 2 or 3 of my favorite football and party-friendly foods into one successful dish or bite. The theme for everyone else was "when are the potato skins going to be ready, Jess?" I also encountered "what's that burning…
When we first heard that Major League Baseball’s annual All-Star Game was going down at Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium July 10th, we were pretty stoked. Kansas City is a well-known destination for barbecue, and we were confident they would make the most of the weekend with some mean stadium eats. Kauffman’s Executive Chef Erin Wishon…