Intrepid NBA reporter David Aldridge worked the sidelines for TNT during the Celtics’ Game 7 victory over the Wizards on Monday night. Coming out of a timeout, Aldridge shared a brief anecdote with the audience at home, as sideline reporters are wont to do.
Brad Stevens’ huevos rancheros recipe is an atrocity
An intervention is required. Brad Stevens must be stopped.
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Aldridge reported that in honor of Mother’s Day the Celtics coach had made his wife huevos rancheros and fed the kids leftovers from practice. We’re going to let that latter piece slide, as disturbed as I am about a millionaire bringing home a takeout box filled with grub from a buffet picked over by basketball players and staff to feed his kids. This is probably very good food, and kids are tough. So we’ll let it slide.
We need to talk about Brad Stevens’ huevos rancheros recipe.
Aldridge reported it as — prepare yourself — fried eggs on top of french fries.
Fried eggs ... on top of french fries ... is not huevos rancheros.
Fried eggs ... on top of french fries ... is not even close to huevos rancheros.
Fried eggs ... french fries ....
NO.
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Huevos rancheros is a breakfast tostada. You need a fried tortilla on the bottom. You need some salsa or enchilada sauce or something on top. You can add some meat. You can get wild with the cheese. Even frijoles can work! Or avocado! (As long as you never want to own a home.) Crema fresca! A jalapeno pepper! Cilantro! Go wild!
But you don’t put a fried egg on a handful of french fries and call it huevos rancheros.
If Aldridge’s report is accurate — D.A.’s among the best in the business, and it’s highly unlikely he would botch such an important detail — Brad Stevens must apologize for daring to call this ... dish [shudders] hueveos rancheros.
Even if Stevens’ wife enjoyed Brad’s Fried Egg On French Fry Special — or even requested it [shudders again] — it is not huevos rancheros. In these trying times, we must insist that words have meaning. We should embrace diverse viewpoints, including those out-of-the-mainstream ideas from the heartland.
But we cannot allow otherwise decent people to refer to fried eggs on french fries as huevos rancheros. No. This cannot stand. We have standards, and this violates every one of them.
Save our republic. Say no to Brad Stevens’ huevos rancheros recipe.
