Nachos à la Cafe Rio

Saturday afternoon my roommate and I were craving Cafe Rio nachos but didn't feel like spending the $9 each for them, so we went to Rancho Market and bought some delicious tortilla chips

We then heated up some black beans and tossed them and some cheese over the pile of chips and heated it up by putting a hot frying pan domed over the plate (a much more effective technique for melting cheese than a microwave). And in the end, I was glad we only paid the couple of dollars for the bag of chips, because they were just as good as Cafe Rio chips!