Month: July 2015

Sidecar Revisited

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The Nachojawn family took a happy hour outing to Sidecar, home of one of the earliest Nachojawn reviews. Those were of the chorizo nachos, which I liked, but thought were missing that je ne sais quoi. How would the pork nachos, at $7 during happy hour, fare under the judgmental taste buds of the Nachojawns?

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So, my main issue with the nachos still stands. There just isn’t enough going on there. What is there, however, is really good. The pulled pork, and there is a lot of it, is tasty, the pineapple salsa is good (but I need a little more than a ramekin of it), and the cheese is well-melted on the above-average chips..

For $7 at happy hour, you can’t go wrong. Those pretzel crusted chicken bites hiding in the top left corner are pretty sweet too.

Pulled Pork Nachos – 4.2/5 pickled jalapenos – Eat these with a half-priced Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose with your family. It’s never to early, in the day or in life, for happy hour.

Sidecar Bar & Grille
22nd & Christian

Cornell Reunion Nachos

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There’s a diploma from Cornell University hanging up in Nachojawn HQ, and Mr. and Mrs. Nachojawn headed up the other weekend for Cornell Reunion. We had booked a place describing itself as a “Rustic Bohemian Treehouse” located on Lake Cayuga for us and two other couples.

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And after a leisurely afternoon on the Finger Lakes Wine Trail, we fired up the toaster oven to make some nachos from Wegman’s purchased ingredients. Here’s the result:

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Blue corn chips, Tostitos salsa, colby jack cheese, sour cream, black beans and fresh avocado on top. I kept my nose out of the ingredient purchasing, but it is a decent lineup, save for the salsa. If you’re foregoing the meat, you gotta get a little more interesting with your flavor profile.

The toaster oven did a good job heating up the nachos, the avocado was perfectly ripe, and I don’t think there was a leftover chip on the two trays.

Dr. M’s Vegetarian Nachos – 3.97/5 pickled jalapenos – eat these with your buddies on Lake Cayuga