Homemade Tortilla Chips for Shrimp Nachos

It's Sunday and we usually like to experiment! We have been curious about making our own tortilla chips. Being the Mexican food lovers that we are, we are always looking for how to make cleaner, lower calorie Tex-Mex. We had some tortillas, some leftover shrimp that we needed to use before it went bad and some cheese. Jacob looked up how to make your own tortilla chips, and stumbled across this recipe on Food Network. We've had really good success with their recipes before so we decided to try!

Ingredients:

• 6 inch tortillas (each tortilla makes 6 chips...we used 5 for the 2 of us and it was definitely enough)
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• salt

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350. Cover baking sheet with foil. Cut your tortillas into 6ths.
2. Brush both sides of each tortilla with vegetable oil. 2 tablespoons was just about perfect for our 5 tortillas, so pour accordingly!

3. Salt your chips. Place in the oven for 5 minutes. Turn baking sheet around and cook for 3-4 more minutes.

**Watch your chips very carefully! It actually took us 2 tries to make chips because they burned to a crisp the first time (we baked them for 6 minutes + 6 minutes). The second time we were paranoid so we did 5 minutes + 3 minutes. The chips could have been a little crispier and still been good, so I'd watch carefully and leave in the oven for 5 minutes + 4 minutes. They looked like this:

To use up our shrimp, we cooked it in 2 tbsp. olive oil, lime juice, salt, pepper and cilantro. When our chips were finished, we sprinkled with fat free shredded cheddar cheese and 2% milk Mexican blend cheese (I used about 1/4 cup of each on my 12 chips). We then placed one of our shrimp in the middle of each cheesy chip and placed back in the oven for 2 minutes. Then we had this...

They were amazing! We ate them with guacamole and loved them! We didn't feel gross like we usually do when we eat tex-mex or nachos. We may never buy chips again! :)