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From: mem@sii.UUCP (Mark Mallett)
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Subject: Three treats
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Date: Fri, 13-Jan-84 23:18:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 13 23:18:44 1984
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This article combines three "treat" suggestions that I mentioned in
the last article.  They are all too simple to be considered real
recipes; nevertheless I think they are worth sharing.

To make natchos: obtain a package of tortilla chips (Doritos will do),
some taco sauce, and your favorite cheese (cheddar, mozarella, anything).
Dump some chips on a baking pan, drip as much taco sauce on as you want,
and grate the cheese over this (it takes more cheese that you might think).
Broil it for just a couple of minutes (I use a toaster oven), and it is
ready.  Not very inventive, admittedly, but good.

Another "treat": get a package of *whole* fresh mushrooms and a small
pack of sausage (ala Jimmy Dean).  Remove the stems from as many mushrooms
as you want, so that it leaves a hole in the mushroom cap.  Fill the cap
with sausage material scooped out of the sausage roll.  Lay each
of these sausage-side-up on a baking pan; broil them in an oven (again,
a toaster-oven) for 5-10 minutes, until the sausage is obviously cooked.
As a last stage, you can remove them at the end of the period, put
a slice of cheese on each one (American, surprisingly, works), and
put them back in the oven until the cheese melts.  You can't eat more
that a couple of these (oddly rich), but they are good to serve.

Something I do for dinner occasionally is to bake a potato.  When it
is done, I split it, mash it and butter it, and grate cheese on top
of it.  Stick this back in the oven for a bit and voila, a great
potato.  Bacon strips are also a good addition.  I usually consider
this a meal in itself; the exception is to eat it with swordfish.

Mark E. Mallett
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