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Yes, this is real.
Caprese nachos are a real thing.
A real, cheesy, hot, crunchy, tomatoey, fresh basily thing.
Also a twenty-minute thing.
Also a no oven, no heating up the house thing too, if you choose.
Normally the whole heating up the house in the summer thing is no big deal to me and I don’t typically understand why people make such a fuss about using the oven in the summer, but now that I have been in South Carolina for a day I understand completely.
I mean, whoa. You guys are not kidding down here. The humidity is insane, but the humidity plus the sun plus the 90 degrees temps. It is darn hot down here.
I mean, I am still loving it, but I am definitely thinking the grill is the way to go down here.
So let’s talk about these nachos.
They really are like a french meets italian nacho and they are obviously good.
Simple, but so good. I think that caprese has to be one of my favorite summer type of dish. I am pretty sure I eat it in one form or another almost everyday throughout the summer.
Now let me rant about my beef and tomatoes.
Ninety percent of the time I only buy tom-tom tomatoes (or grape or cherry or whatever else you may call them). I almost never buy the beef tomatoes and only occasionally buy Roma, but only when they are in season and so gosh darn good. I would love to by the heirloom tomatoes, but honestly I just can not justify spending that much for tomatoes that I could scarf in less than a minute. I love the multi colored grape tomatoes, but again they are a little pricey to be buying every week.
So why do I stick to the grape tomatoes? Because in my opinion they have the best flavor. Unless I am picking the tomato off the vine, I Â still have yet to have an amazing beef steak tomato. The flavor of the grape tomatoes are normally pretty reliably good, especially if they are the really small ones. I can always count on the small ones.
I know, I am a freak about my tomatoes and I also know lots of you are probably going to disagree with me, but this is just my experience with tomatoes.
Plus, I really love just popping those juicy things in my mouth.
I have been known to eat pints ate a time. Like just the tomatoes, nothing else, not even any salt.
Okay, now these are not normal nachos with tortilla chips.
I mean, I am sure that would be good, but the grilled (or toasted) bread is 100x better. I mean I am pretty sure most of you would be cool with eating just the grilled bread. Grilled bread is a new favorite food of mine, can’t believe how good it is.
But really, I think you know this whole thing is good.
If you love caprese this is for you. If you love melty mozzarella cheese this is for you. If you love grilled bread or even toasted bread this is for you. And if you love tomatoes and basil this is for you.
Basically, there is not really anyway it can’t be for you.
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Unless of your course you are one of my brothers.
dang girl. I wish i was your neighbor.
LOL! Thank you, Rachel!
This photo on foodgawker totally jumped out at me. Besides the amazing photos, what a wildly creative and delicious idea! I am totally making this over the weekend. Thanks for the inspiration Tieghan!
Thank you, Chris! Hope you love these!
I pretty much avoid fresh tomatoes unless they come from my garden! The rest of the year, canned usually has better flavor (and definitely price!) than what we can buy around here. Plus, there’s that whole issue of the people picking them practically slaves…
Anyway, these look tasty!
Thank you, Kate!
Just came across you via foodgawker, and love, just love these nachos! We’ve such a glut all summer long of toms and basil here in the Med, in Malta, that I run out of innovative ways to use them. Nothing beats a caprese but this is a new take. I’ll be making it as a niblet for a BBQ I have next week. Lovely work on your blog Tieghan. Will be back! Wish I’d started cooking young – my mum couldn’t get me in the kitchen for love nor money at your age!
Haha! Thank you so much, Liz! I am so happy you like my site and so happy you are going to give these a try! I think you will love them!
Caprese + Nachos!?! This looks like a superb combination. Tieghan, you’re a genius ;–)
Thank you!
That balsamic vinegar is all I can think about now. I need to make this dish and soon. Pinning and pinning 🙂
Thank you so much!!
Oh my… WANT WANT WANT!!
Haha! Thank you, Tessa!! I was sos excited to see your comment!
I LOVE this! And that balsamic glaze – GENIUS!
Thanks Chung- Ah!
Share me your secret – WHERE did you get those mini cast iron pans?!?! Ben was reading this over my shoulder – and said I can totally make these for him 😉
Haha! I got mine from amazon. Here is the link:
You’re a genius! I love this! It’s all my favorite flavors of summer!
Than you!
You have made magic happen. This looks SOO GOOOOD.
Thank you, Sarah!
Everything about this sounds AMAZING! I am CRAVING this right now. Come over and make these for dinner with me Tieghan?? We can have blueberry pie bars for dessert. 😉
Done and done!!
Definitely a thing 🙂
Yes! For sure, thank nessa!
HELL YES. I want to nacho-fy every meal now.
Haha!! Hell yes, that sounds awesome!
Oh…My…Gosh….you can only imagine my delight when I saw this recipe.. what an awesome, awesome idea!! The happy thing is that I have all the ingredients to try this tonight!! 🙂
I’m loving the small cast iron skillets in the photos. We have Wegman’s here in Western NY, and they have these little cast iron skillets for $10 each. I’ve been watching them every week, waiting for the price to go down, knowing that I cannot justify buying them for that price. I think you just gave me my justification!!
Haha! I bought mine from amazon for eight dollars, but I can’t find them anymore! Hope you love these!
Ahh!! Thank you!! why didn’t I think of Amazon? I’m on there everyday… the question is… did you buy the 3″ or the 5″? In my mind, the 5″ is better.. more tomatoey/cheesey/balsamicy goodness for each person!