Tanya and the queso

The queso dip at Laredo Cantina Tuesday, May 19.

Tanya invented her own way of using the tortilla chips to keep the dripping queso at bay. She said she'd prefer to just scoop up the dip in a spoon. Well, duh!

The obligatory chain-restaurant brownie concoction. This one has cinnamon ice cream a la mode and a ceremonial pouring of the "brandy butter" onto a searing-hot cast-iron fajita plate. I'm not a sweets person, but did have a bite and found it was very fresh and tasty.

It gets real caramel-esque. I detected neither cinnamon or brandy taste in this thing, but the brownie itself was nice.

The group minus me: Tanya, Volodya, Alex.