#taconacho

Well, some variation on what I have taken to calling "nachotaco". Depending on the mood you're in and how you assemble the thing? It may be more like nachos, or it may be more like a taco salad. You decide.

I hadn't added the bulk of the salad part yet. Because you couldn't see much under it otherwise.

This did end up slightly more Swede-Mex than usual: we did get some chopped cucumber, because Mr. C picked up a couple of them with some other fixings, and it does make a pretty nice addition. No pineapple or corn, however!

Yes, if you want to, you can buy small cans of tidbits explicitly marketed for using on tacos and pizza. I was interested to see that when I was buying canned pineapple to make a dessert.

My actual excuse for turning tonight into Nachotaco Friday? We had roughly half a pound of ground meat left from that last bamboo shoot creation, which needed used up. So, I figured bulking it out with some beans and turning it into something vaguely chili-esque to eat with tortilla chips might be a reasonable low effort plan. Only a short step from there to nachotaco!

Mostly gone. It did seem to go over well. That waa an unconventional bean choice, but we had an extra can of butter beans, I like them, and it seemed worth a try. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A pack of very Swedish taco seasoning was also involved for part of the seasoning. So was a good spoonful of those Lao Gan Ma chopped pickled red chiles, because they were good. And the taste didn't clash, as I was hoping.

Besides his also unconventional lettuce choice tonight, he also decided to pick up some of that "jalapeño & chili" flavored grated cheese to try along with their plain "Tex-Mex" blend. It doesn't taste particularly chiliriffic, but it was tasty enough.

(And yes, dude likes to use part flavored tortilla chips in his nachos. That is apparently not unusual here. He also prefers flavored potato chips to eat with dip. To each their own...)

They do indeed sell nacho cheese Doritos here, unlike the UK at any point I was there! On the much less exciting side? This version evidently made somewhere in the Low Countries seems to be based on the weird Euro-standard style of "tortilla chips". And the seasoning tastes pretty different to anything I remember having.