Taco "Meat"

This is my own little concoction of ingredients for taco meat.  I looked up various recipes, and personally I am not in love with eating a lot of soy, so I kinda mixed this, mixed that, tried this, and tried that.  This is what works for us.  This is what my kids like, my hubby likes, and I like it too.  The first time I made it, no one (except my hubby) even realized it wasn't real meat until after the fact.

Ingredients:

mushrooms (preferably portabella)
walnuts
taco seasonings (whatever you use)
brown rice (cooked)

Note:  For my family of 7, I use an entire package of baby portabella mushrooms and about 1 cup of walnuts, so adjust accordingly.  It makes quite a bit of "meat" and it can be re-heated the next day if you make too much.

chop up and semi-puree the mushrooms and walnuts in a food processor.  You want to make it like a slightly chunky paste).  Next, transfer to a pan, stir in taco seasonings of choice and cooked brown rice.  Allow to become fully heated.  It will look a bit mushy and weird, but once you put it on a taco shell or into a tortilla and doctor that baby up, it is amazingly yummy!

See...it looks a bit gross, but I promise it's yummy.  If my picky kids that have rejected meat time and time again will eat this, you know it's good.  :)

Sorry for not taking pictures of our tacos - I had to run out the door to Cub Scouts or else I would have taken great pictures.  I had to scarf mine down on the go.