Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumIt's about $6.50 for a jar of this. The brand I have in mind is Tostitos Nacho cheese.
2 TBSP butter
2 TBSP Flour
Melt the butter and whisk in the four like making gravy.
Add a cup of whole milk and do the same until it thickens.
The add 8oz of Velveeta, 1/8 tsp of cayenne pepper and 1 to 2 TBS of mashed pickled jalapeno pepper.
Better and way cheaper. Takes about 15 minutes.
Walleye
(36,902 posts)Polly Hennessey
(7,580 posts)Must be for special occasions 😂
SarahD
(1,732 posts)I remember the old Kraft Music Hall TV show and their ads for the smooth, gooey goodness of Velveeta. It is sooooooo good on Philly cheese steak sandwiches.
Retrograde
(10,798 posts)instead of Velveeta - I can usually find large blocks of cheddar or Monterey Jack in local groceries - and up the amount of pepper, but otherwise it sounds good. I've thinking about what to do for dinner tonight
Decades ago I found a recipe (can't remember where) for chile con queso, that started with sauteeing diced chiles, onions, and tomatoes, and adding cream cheese, diluting with milk until you got the consistency you want. I still occasionally make it with and serve it with tortillas or tortilla chips for brunch. I prefer my nachos the original way Nacho made them - individual tortilla chips with a piece of jalapeno and a piece of cheese on them, under the broiler just long enough for the cheese to start to melt. Although I made these for a party once and no one touched them. Nothing against chips piled on a plate and stuff glopped over them, but IMHO that's something else.
2naSalit
(94,242 posts)Velveeta is against my religion, never use it unless I'm in a commercial kitchen without having any authority.
SWBTATTReg
(24,535 posts)2naSalit
(94,242 posts)That I should make one too. I have too much cheese in the fridge and need to start using it. It's chilly and snowy today, great thing for lunch with some soup!
Diamond_Dog
(35,485 posts)Sometimes I stir in a can of Rotel diced tomatoes with jalapeños.
Wonder Why
(4,822 posts)Warpy
(113,131 posts)like a bunch of men come trooping in and say so-and-so's TV isn't ;working and it's some big sportsball thing and you need something fast so they won't get grumpy:
110 oz. can original Ro-Tel tomatoes and chiles, drained
16 oz. Velveeta
Cube the Velveeta. Put it into a saucepan with the drained Ro-Tel. Cook over low-medium heat until the Velveeta is melted and completely incorporated with the Ro-Tel. Pour into something suitable, open a bag of chips, and serve.
The person who brought in queso dip reliably used government cheese for it would start with the roux and bechamel sauce, dump in the cheese and Ro-Tel, then transfer it to a crock pot. Government cheese makes great queso dip. This quickie recipe isn't bad, though, and is incredibly no fuss It's also very fast.
Kali
(55,941 posts)and I do it in the microwave, so it is easy to reheat when it congeals. but velveeta isn't cheap anymore.