Nowadays, one can find a sheet-pan dinner recipe for pretty much any flavor that one craves. But before all of these existed, there were nachos.
The original sheet-pan meal can be found on virtually every bar and diner menu across the country. While nachos are now a popular Tex-Mex dish, they're a distinctly Mexican creation. Texas?
Invented in 1940, nachos were born when Ignacio Anaya, nicknamed "Nacho" (which is short for the Spanish name Ignacio, from the Latin Ignatius), threw together a quick snack of
corn (chips)
dairy (cheese)
chili (jalapeños)
veggies (tomato, black olives, cilantro, guacamole)
protein (pinto beans, Beyond Burger crumbles)
to sate the hunger of some guests visiting the restaurant he worked at in Piedras Negras ("Black Rocks"), Mexico.
The dish was an instant smash and quickly took hold in other restaurants before Texas-based businessman Frank Liberto created ballpark nachos in 1976, making them even more popular and readily available in the United States.
Nachos are typically eaten as a side or an appetizer, but with some careful doubling-up of ingredients and a few additions, they can become a hearty lunch or dinner.
The beauty of nachos is that while they have a few classic elements and ingredients, they can also serve as a vehicle for creativity and new flavors -- made fully vegan with full flavor.
So if anyone has ever had the urge to mix up a dish of nachos, here are some tips needed to make this dish even more special. More
This enriching cookbook celebrates eight important plants Native Americans introduced to the rest of the world: corn, beans, squash, chile, tomato, potato, vanilla, and chocolate/cacao—with more than 100 recipes.
When these eight Native American plants crossed the ocean after 1492, the world’s cuisines were changed forever. In Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky, James Beard Award-winning author and Chef Lois Ellen Frank introduces the splendor and importance of this Native culinary history and pairs it with delicious, modern, plant-based recipes using Native American ingredients.
Native plant based cookbook recipes
Along with Native American culinary advisor Walter Whitewater, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares more than 100 nutritious, plant‑based recipes organized by each of the foundational ingredients in Native American cuisine as well as a necessary discussion of food sovereignty and sustainability.
A delicious, enlightening celebration of Indigenous foods and Southwestern flavors, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky shares recipes for dishes such as Blue Corn Hotcakes with Prickly Pear Syrup, Three Sisters Stew, and Green Chile Enchilada Lasagna, as well as essential basics like Corn Masa, Red and Green Chile Sauces, and Cacao Spice Rub.
The “Magic 8” ingredients share the page—and plate—to create recipes that will transform our world.
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What is the FAT founder of world's third largest religion (when the 1 billion uncounted Buddhists in communist, and therefore officially atheist, Buddhists are counted) in the world going to teach us about being fit? The fact is the popular depiction of "Fat Happy Buddha" is not the historical Buddha Shakyamuni (born Prince Siddhartha Gautama) but rather a monk (now elevated to bodhisattva) named Budai (also Putai, Hotei), a Chinese monk with a big sack of candy for children, a luck-bringing jolly fellow very reminiscent of the West's Santa Claus.
Fat on a slippery wet diving board
ABOUT: Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the founder and director of its renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic. His clinic was featured in 1993 in the public television series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Jon Kabat-Zinn is the author of 15 books, in print in over 45 languages. These include Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; Coming to Our Senses; and Mindfulness for Beginners.
Trump's love of Hitler revealed, Obama raps, and Eminem politely cowers at rally
Mr. Hitler meets with Grand Mufti
(The Daily Show) Oct. 23, 2024: Michael Kosta tackles the latest news: Obama rapping Eminem lyrics, Eminem endorsing Harris politely, and Walz releasing a diss track about Trunf and calling Musk a "dipsh*t." Plus, Trumf's former Chief of Staff John Kelly calls Trunf a literal "fascist" and reveals that his ex-boss, Don Von Trunf, repeatedly praised Hitler while in the Oval Office wanting to hold onto power forever, searching for generals who would obey him without question and with perfect loyalty reserved for an authoritarian leader. #DailyShow #MichaelKosta #Eminem
Giuliani goes broke while Elon Musk gifts millions in Trump voter sweepstakes
(The Daily Show) Oct. 22, 2024: Michael Kosta tackles the civil court order that is shaking down Trump's poorest henchman, Rudy Giuliani, and the latest attempt by Trump's richest henchman, Elon Musk, to bribe voters with a million dollars. Plus, Ronny Chieng tries to find Elon a friend. #DailyShow #ElonMusk #RudyGiuliani #Trump
Jon Stewart on Trump's McDonald's shift stunt and his "enemy within" Nazi'esque threat
Don Von Trunf is a Neo German nationalist
(The Daily Show) Oct. 21, 2024: With two weeks (to Election Day, Nov. 5th) until the big election for the White House (and to fill the slots in Washington, DC, aka The Swamp), Jon Stewart sifts through the increasingly weird and surreal election news on both side of our single-party system with two wings, Left and Right: from Trump's ramble about Arnold Palmer's big d*ck (energy), to his phony shift at McDonald's, to Kamala's campaign event with D*ck Cheney's Republican daughter Liz Cheney. Plus, Stewart breaks down the GOP's (Grand Old Party's) reaction to Trump's "enemy within" comment. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump
Tim Walz on 2024 election, Harris campaign’s “big tent”
(The Daily Show) Oct. 21, 2024: “These are folks that want to find a reason to not vote for Donald Trump. We need to give them that.” Minnesota Gov. Tim V. Walz takes a break from campaigning with VP Harris to chat with Jon Stewart about the 2024 election and their outreach to voters who don’t want to pick Trump on Election Day. They discuss the Democratic party’s platform, including middle-class tax cuts and expanding home care, as well as what it means to be a responsible gun owner [assuming he owns a gun since he can't load a shotgun he said is his], advocating for unions, and his favorite place to run in New York City. #DailyShow #TimWalz #KamalaHarris
Leslie Jones can’t believe what Europeans think of Americans | The Daily Show
Young Buddhists at first European Buddhists' Convention, Berlin, Germany (Hannah Prinzler)
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Artificially-flavored fecal contamination patties
(The Daily Show) Sept. 27, 2024: Fresh off a summer vacation at the Paris Olympics, Daily Show Correspondent Leslie Jones returns to offer a fresh perspective on why Europeans think so poorly of Americans and our poop-eating, loud, violent gun culture. Between the chemical food additives in our artificial "natural flavors"
[all "natural flavors" are artificial mimics of things occurring in nature and only have to be labelled accurately as "artificial flavors" if the flavor they are mimicking does not exist in nature, in either case all added "flavors" are synthetic and many of them are very dangerous neurotoxins]
I'm a sa lang now with herbal ingredients + stuff
to public breakdowns on planes, fast food restaurants, and on social media, as well as our rampant gun violence, and whale decapitations by insane politicians and detonations by foolish ones, Jones concludes about Americans: "We are f**ked up." #DailyShow#LeslieJones#Europe
Jon Stewart devours the fast-food industry, Pt. 2 | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) May 28, 2024: Jon Stewart continues to explore the fast-food industry from completely safe and healthy mid-show snacks to McDonald’s monopoly fraud, to the disturbing firing of a Taco Bell employee. #DailyShow #McDonalds#TacoBell
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Jon Stewart devours the fast-food industry | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) May 3, 2024: #dailyshow #Comedy
Jon Stewart takes a bite out of the fast-food industry from McDonald's' promise to use chicken anuses [for McNuggets] without antibiotics, Chick-fil-A’s Appreciation Day protests, and Pizza Hut’s pork belly and hot dog-lined pizza. #dailyshow #Comedy
Meet the "shaman" using ancient chocolate rituals to revive Mayan traditions
(Still Standing | Business Insider) Oct. 15, 2021: Cacao has been a spiritual symbol for Indigenous people in Mesoamerica and Central America (Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs) for thousands of years. When the modern European chocolate industry took over, many of the plant's sacred uses were lost. Today, people in Guatemala (the country just south of Mexico) are bringing back the ritual of drinking pure cacao (coffee-like tropical-spice "bitter water"). #StillStanding#Guatemala#Cacao. Both Izaias and Keith sell their cacao online: lavalovecacao.com, keithscacao.com.
Guatemala is interesting because it takes its name from the historical Buddha Gautama and the Indian word for string of beads mala, according to American anthropologist Rick Fields inHow the Swans Came to the Lake: A Narrative History of Buddhism in America. The Buddha did not come to America, but Buddhism arrived before Catholicism, Christianity, or Columbus, apparently getting here in various waves, the most famous of which was, according to American Edward P. Vining (1885) by Chinese and Afghan Buddhist missionaries, as documented in the excellent text An Inglorious Columbus.
Mexican moms make it better, from warm corn tortilla wraps to spicy centers to sweet cocoa.
You're taking our hot xocolatl for your cold European climate? Add chile to make it spicy.
Love potatoes, tomatoes, or chocolates? Thank Indigenous Latin American cultures
West addicted to sugar + caffeine
Some of the best tasting foods out there are indigenous to Latin America, but over the centuries they have become associated with imperialist European countries that stole them.
We thought it was time to set the record straight. Mmm...chocolate! It was invented in Mexico, like most other popular American foods.
Television commercials and magazine ads make it seem that the Swiss or Belgians must somehow be connected to the very origins of chocolate, but the caffeine laced treat's history stretches back millennia to what is now southeastern Mexico.
Whites like Wonka invented chocolate, right?
In fact, Smithsonian Magazine reports that the very word stems from the Aztec xocolatl, which referred to the bitter drink brewed from cacao tree seeds that was often mixed with chilis, special herbs, honey, and flowers.
The liquid (now called "hot cocoa") was beaten into a foam and both inhaled and drunk as part of sacred rituals called cacao ceremonies.
(Unsung History) We take the present-day word "chocolate" from the Mayan word xocolatl, which translates to as "bitter water," and that is an accurate description of the traditional and highly popular everyday Mayan cocoa drink. Aztecs added amendments to the theobromine.
Our pyramids and massive cities are still being found by LiDAR under the jungle canopy.
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"Chocolate" comes from these fruit seeds.
It's well documented that the drink has been around for 2,000 years, but anthropologists from the University of Pennsylvania say they have found an even earlier use of cacao — the source of modern day chocolate — somewhere between 1400 and 1100 B.C.E.
Ancient pottery discovered in present day Latin American country Honduras indicates that cultures there made a fermented, alcoholic beverage from the sweet pulp of the cacao fruit.
Add spices and sweetness
"Legend has it that the Aztec King Montezuma welcomed the Spanish explorer [Conquistador] Hernando Cortes with a banquet that included drinking chocolate, having tragically mistaken him for a reincarnated deity [deva] instead of a conquering invader," according to Smithsonian.
It makes sense then that the cacao seed or bean made its first appearance in Spain during the mid-1500s. A century later, sweetened chocolate had become a fashionable and expensive commodity across Europe.
Potatoes make fries and mash and pancakes and can be baked and stuffed and added to everything!
So many ways to enjoy potatoes with ketchup
We'll be taking the gold, silver, chocolate, tomatoes, and potatoes. Here's a cross for you.
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The all-American French fry in raw form
While the humble and hearty potato is inextricably linked to Ireland in many people's minds, the American tubers were first domesticated in present day Peru and Northern Bolivia nearly 8,000 years ago, according to the BBC.
The Inca and other indigenous people consumed potatoes in many of the same ways we do today. But they also commonly made something called chuño, which is made by repeatedly freezing potatoes in the cold Andes night air then thawing them the next day.
Who wants bland chuño when we have tasty xocolatl?
People would squeeze out all of the moisture, which made them light, soft, and juicy and added years to their shelf life.
The preservation process made them perfect for long expeditions and provided security against future bad harvests — both qualities that appealed to the Spanish upon their invasion in the region in 1532.
Chocolate fruit is better than the fatty seeds.
"The invaders took tubers [the underground parts of the plant we call potatoes] across the Atlantic, as they did with other crops such as tomatoes, avocados, and corn, in what historians call the Great Columbian Exchange. For the first time in history, the potato ventured beyond the Americas," the BBC reports.
Since then, the BBC says, the potato has become the world's fourth-most important crop after [the grains or grass seeds] rice, wheat, and [American] maize, starchy potatoes being the first among non-grains.
On the subject of tomatoes...
Euro-Americans find profitable use for tomatoes
What's Italian food without tomatoes?
Yet, like the other foods on this list so far, the thin-skinned fruit (not a vegetable) originated in the Andes Mountains of present-day Peru and Ecuador and is believed to have been domesticated by Mexicans before Columbus, Britannica tells us.
Similarly, the Aztecs would argue that it is neither pronounced \toe-may-toe\ nor \toe-mah-toe\ but rather tomatl.
The Spanish European invaders later translated [taking the -tl at the end of many Aztec words and turning them into -te for the Spanish version or pronunciation of the same words) as tomate as they began exporting the tasty round fruit ball to Europe during the mid-1500s. More
Wait, what about hot chili peppers?
Our space brothers, the "gods" or Star People, helped us find most of these delicacies like Theobroma cacao or cocoa beans to make chocolate.
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They also gave us this cosmic calendar.
To clarify, what we Americans call "chocolate" comes from the Aztec word xocolatl, via the Spanish chocolate (\cho-koh-la-teh\). The Latin binomial of the tree seed used in cocoa is Theobroma cacao, which literally translates as "chocolate, food of the gods." Who were the "gods"? They were devas, visitors from the sky or space (possibly from the hollow earth and Aztlan) coming down and really developing a taste for this sweetened bitter seed. We have to give heaven/space credit.
WARNING: According to Dr. Steven Gundry, tomatoes, potatoes, bell peppers, chiles, eggplants, tobacco, and such plants are nightshades and should be avoided because of the plant lectins they contain.
These are irritants to the body, as the plant uses them to protect itself from consumption. The worst plant lectin is gluten found in wheat, barley, rye, oats, and buckwheat (which contain avenin, gliadin, and fagopyrins that are even more detrimental than wheat gluten, a gluey protein that wipes out the cilia in the intestinal tract and leads to malabsorption of food, skin irritation, and uncomfortable problems. (See criticalhealthnews.com and the work of Dr. Joel Wallach). One need not have celiac disease to be harmed by gluten. In fact, the gluten problem is much worse for everybody now due to Big Agra (industrial agriculture) breeding plants with more and more gluten, which is a squishy and binding in ways our mouths have been made to crave.
Even corn is not what it used to be. It was regarded as a famine food and, back then, was much smaller and much more natural. It is now a Frankenfood due to the meddling of American corporations like Monsanto and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. Many of these foods are high in starch, which is quickly converted into sugar leading to diabetic problems. It is far better to decolonize the diet to pre-Columbian days, when the Indigenous people were largely vegetarian and vegan and living in mythical Fusang, having come from the hollow earth world of Aztlan. This is a good book for popular California pre-Spanish foods. Eat in moderation, move your body regularly (yoga, walking, swimming), and find the real plants the Native Americans ate: amaranth, raw agave, medicinal and culinary herbs, quinoa, purslane (verdolagas), the Three Sisters using various corn plants of other colors, and so on. More than anything, enjoy it.
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