Elery loves nachos and just uses tortilla chips or leftover fried tortilla shells, he doesn't fry them again. He'll top them with everything from leftover taco meat to sliced olives to cooked beans to pickled jalapenos, add salsa and copious amounts of cheese and heat until the cheese melts. Lettuce and tomato and chopped onion on the top if you wish, and sour cream. He makes a big plate and shares, mostly with the dogs, LOL, but I can have some if I want. I mostly don't because I don't like pickled jalapenos or the blazingly hot stuff that he likes on everything from scrambled eggs to....well.....nachos. Both dogs seem to eat them without hesitation, though. I don't like them well enough to make a separate batch for myself so usually I just have tortilla chips and salsa. Make that MILD salsa. (grin)

Annie

We make them pretty much the same way as Annie described. We usually use tortilla chips, and add a variety of toppings (but not beans, because DH really hates beans unless they are green) and then we use the MW to melt the cheese. Sometimes, we just top the chips with cheese and salsa and get it all warm and melty in the MW.

Much to their disappointment, we don't share with the dogs.

Smiles,

Sooz

I brown ground beef. I put a layer of tortilla chips on a pan, top them with beef, Queso, cheese (after the Queso!), and refried beans. Then I bake until cheese is melted, top them with guacamole, lettuce, tomato and a touch of sour cream. Stays crunchy for a while unless you put a giant amount of sour cream on it.

We make nachos fairly frequently. If I am feeling "devil-may-care," I will use technique of warming the chips with olive oil. Sometimes I will make a cheese sauce. Sometimes we just melt shredded cheese over top of the chips in the microwave. Once I made taco "meat" with lentils for the nachos and certainly would again. Sometimes we use rotisserie chicken or left over shredded meat (machaca). Sometimes I use whole beans and sometimes not. I usually have salsa in the pantry to top it off with and whole plain yogurt (as I do not often have sour cream in the house). If I have planned ahead, I might make include avocado (chopped, as guac or turned into a creamy sauce). About the only constants for us and nachos are the chips and some form of cheese.

I just cut the tortillas, spread them out on a pan, add anything that looks good and needs to be warmed, assertive cheese over the top (aged gouda, cheddar, whatever needs using up), broil until bubbly, add the cold things (guacamole, crème fraîche, olives (no one here likes hot olives), etc.). Just like the waiter, Ignacio, who invented them (mid-afternoon when the kitchen was shut down) and whom they're named after, I just use whatever is around.

If it was just for me, I would load them up. Since I live with fussy people, it just browned seasoned meat and cheese. I will put some small diced onion in the meat but everything has to be separate, otherwise. On the side will be refried beans, fried onions and peppers, olives, guacamole, lettuce and jalapenos.

Simple is how I like them. Grated cheddar on tortilla chips, diced or sliced jalapeno...nuke until the cheese is melted. Add dollops of sour cream. Others in the family add some salsa.

I don't mind having refried beans on them. Black olives are OK. Don't like meat on them, though.

We make them every Sunday when The Walking Dead is on lol. Its kinda a tradition at this point. We just use tortilla chips, refried beans, cheese, sour cream or I will put on plain Greek Yogurt (if no one is looking..they don't realize the difference lol), olives, jalepenos and salsa. Sometimes a few green onions if we have them.

If I have left over taco seasoned meat, I make them. A thin layer of corn chips, topped with grated cheese (cheddar, jack or a combination) and dribbles of taco meat under the broiler till the cheese is melted.

Nachos are like soup, no single recipe. I put on them what I have and what I feel like. Meat of course. Leftover chili, spaghetti sauce, sloppy joes, pot or pork roast, turkey, chicken, you name it. Salsa is a maybe, onion, corn or ??? Sour cream, taco sauce and a bunch of cheese. Pepperoni goes good, bacon or bacon bits, some hard cooked eggs have gone on them too. Really, there's no recipe, what do you have and what do you like?

I never make nachos at home, but Kevin will occasionally order them at a restaurant. I do make migas frequently, however, which are somewhat similar, except that they have eggs and are made in a frying pan. I always have the ingredients to make nachos but prefer to make other dishes. I make enchiladas and burritos on a regular basis, and when we were in Texas, we had breakfast tacos every morning. I only eat tortilla chips on the side. I also make taco salad and have four molds for making the shells out of flour tortillas.

This has been a really interesting topic to me. Nachos are so commonplace here, especially for dinner if tortillas are not availible. It's served as a buffet/family style, so each person layers what they want as they go. Cheese, beef, tomato, onion, jalapeno, habinero, lettuce, etc.

Renee, how do you make the nachos if tortillas are not available?

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Lately I've been making nachos at least every week (it is just a big salad with tortilla chips instead of croutons, no? :) Along with the usual vegetables I really like a slice or two of bacon crumbled over them instead of taco meat, more flavor and a bit lighter. I do heat the chips and then sprinkle a bit of cheese on them instead of heating after any toppings, the chips stay crisper.

We just enjoyed a plate today while watching a movie.

Tostido Scoops or Wegman's blue corn chips like Scoops

Chili beans

Shredded bbq chicken thighs with a mustard-style sauce

Shredded cheddar cheese

Sour cream

They were insanely good.