veggie nachos

I made a ton of faux meat this weekend, and I've got to use it up. So tonight, I made lacto-vegetarian nachos, and the result, while not exactly beefy, wasn't bad.

I crumbled the faux meat into a pan and added all the usual seasonings to make a taco sauce. Here's the taco sauce, poured over a bunch of chips:

looks plausibly like ground beef

sriracha spiral, plus that's real cheese, hence lacto-vegetarian

The completed nachos included lettuce, tomatoes, olives, jalapeños, shredded cheese, white sauce (modified leftover ranch dressing plus Greek yogurt), and sriracha. I had tried to make a guacamole, but I used a package of frozen avocados for that, and the taste was absolutely disgusting. There was no way I was going to put that guac onto my nachos.

Nasty guacamole aside (we shall speak no more of it!), the overall effect was pretty nacho-like. I would, of course, prefer real-beef nachos, but you work with what you've got. I get the feeling that the faux meat I made works well as a sort of ersatz ground beef in dishes that typically use ground beef, e.g., nachos, cottage pie, etc. Next up: faux-meat bolognese. And maybe after that, some cottage pie to finish this batch of meat off.