serene wrote:
> Anyone ever make your own nacho sauce? One of my trashy-food delights
> is the unbelievably orange stuff you get at theaters and such. When I
> buy the Frito-Lay brand, I like it a lot, but I know I'm paying three
> bucks for a third of a pound of junk food, and I can buy really good
> cheddar for less than that. So I thought I'd ask y'all if you know
> how to make the stuff.

I'll never forget my one experience trying to make Nacho sauce. I was
using the recipe in the Moosewood Cookbook, and I was young - it was
probably 15 years ago - and knew how to cook but not nearly as well as
I do now =) I follwed the recipe exactly, but I ended up with a gloppy,
curdled-looking mess. it seemed to curdle when I added the beer,
strangely enough. we tasted it and it was gross. i have no idea what
went wrong, to this day.

never have tried it again, though. i like to make notes in cookbooks as
to my changes and opinions of the recipes, so this page has a huge red
X across the whole page and the note "DON'T DO IT! GROSS! DISGUSTING!
NO! NO! NO! "

So. I'd not recommend the Moosewood recipe.