Nacho Red Alert!

If I am going to pick up groceries after work (say, in anticipation of nacho night), I have two options. One is to get off at Packard's Corner, go into Shaw's, wait forever in one of the 3 lines that they decide to have open, desperately run for the T and endanger my life crossing the Comm Ave/Brighton Ave split, and ride the T two more stops (a little too long to walk with heavy groceries, a little too short to feel 100% comfortable riding the T) and walk up the hill home. The other option is to take the T past Long Ave and go up to Washington St to the Whole Foods. I like this option because a) it's Whole Foods, so I can get delicious fun salsa and perhaps ripe avocados and b) the hill I have to walk up is relatively short. Plus I can get non-nacho prepared dinner food for Terrill, who doesn't believe in only eating nachos for dinner.

However, the chips and cheese from Whole Foods taste like they are from Whole Foods, meaning that the chips taste baked, are not very salty, and the cheese melts like it is low-fat. The failure of the Breakfast Nachos was at first chalked up to using a cookie sheet instead of the regular glass baking dish, but after last week's dry, flavorless Nachos Classic, we suspect it is the chips and cheese.

Tonight is a return to form with Carne Nachos, as well as the 2 hour premiere of So You Think You Can dance sprinkled with a little bit of Celtics game.

Also, I will be assembling a vodka watermelon. I have never done this before, but it seems like the perfect thing for an 80-degree Memorial Day bbq. I am also going to be soaking pineapples in vodka and injecting vodka into grapefruits and oranges with a medical syringe (not a real syringe, as we debated yesterday). The recipe will follow if all is successful.

In the meantime, my favorite drink ever, perhaps even eclipsing the marg:

Dark & Stormy

Sailor Jerry rum (it doesn't have to be SJ, but...)
Very ginger-y ginger beer (like Bartlett's, or the ones we get from Brookline Liquor Mart)
Limes

Pour two shots of SJ over ice. Top with ginger beer. Squeeze a lime in. Try not to drink 5.