Last night at our regular weekly Youth Meeting, Laura served nachos for the first time. We had found some corn chips that were semi-good and she topped them with melted cheese and browned hamburger meat. She also whipped up some great salsa from tomatoes, onions, garlic, etc.
When the kids had the chips and melted cheese on their plates, they just kind of froze. Some looked like they wanted to use a fork to try to eat with, others just didn't know what to do. Finally, I showed them how to spoon some salsa over the whole mound of chips and cheese and then munch away using your fingers.
That loosened them up (who doesn't like eating with their fingers?) and they were into the nachos like we were sitting in Athens at Taco Bell. I tried to get a couple of the boys to try the jalapeno peppers but that was asking too much for one night.
I'm thinking of the whole affair as just a teachable moment in culinary culture!
[The way nachos are supposed to look ... not the way our Latvian homemade nachos actually looked!]
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