I Made A Magic Mountain

Anyone who follows my Twitter stream has figured out that I watch The Rachel Maddow Show most weeknights.  Like most fangirls, I also contribute to the online conversation about the show, using the #maddow hashtag.

A couple of weeks ago (July 1, actually), as her "Best New Thing In The World", she invited some folks from Iowa who own a restaurant to make their specialty on her show: something called the Magic Mountain.  (There's some connection to an Obama town hall and ... the details are in the podcast).

A Magic Mountain is a piece of Texas Toast with meat, french fries, cheese sauce, and onions (to look like snow on top).  If you put chili on top, it's called a Volcano.

OMG.  I craved one for like, three days before I could get to the store and get the stuff to make one.  If I had picked up a can of vegetarian chili, this could even be a Project Veg recipe.  But its not.

I used the Texas Toast I had in the fridge, which has cheese on it.  I mean, you can never have too much cheese, right?

Fries.  I didn't put the meat, b/c at this point I thought I was doing this veg.

Melted cheese (I didn't have sauce, sorry).

Onions, to look like "snow" on the mountain.

Okay, it looks really awful.  But it was SOOO good.