Fajitas

Seitan-based fajitas. Possibly the best thing I ate so far in 2016. Maybe even 2015 as well. Served with Laura's homemade tortillas and fresh avocado, they were pretty much perfect.

Vegan Fajitas

Vegan Fajitas

If you would like a Step-by-Step for making fajitas, click here. We've made these many times, from meat versions to vegetarian ones, but this time, totally vegan.

Dairy Sub
We substituted the sour cream for a Tofutti Better Than Sour Cream (disagree, but it's not terrible - works for fajitas). It's a soy-based, dairy-free sour cream substitute. It has the texture and most of the the tang you get from sour cream, but has that soy bean flavor too, and I haven't really warmed up to it. If you're serving it with stronger flavors it's perfect. And if you're serving it with beans (like with chili) the flavor blends in better, too.

Tofutti Better Than Sour Cream

Fajita Filling
We added seitan, which was actually delicious and very much like beef but without the animal fat.

The veggies were the typical onion/pepper variety, along with some limes which were used with cumin to cook the veggies in and squeeze over the filling before wrapping.

Fajita Filling

Everything Else
Laura made the tortillas, which were unbelievable. It's hard to go back to store brands once you've had them homemade, too. Even when she really doesn't feel like making them, she usually does anyway, just because it's so worth it.

They were served with fresh avocado, salsa and the sour cream sub. Best thing I ever ate. Total 10.

Vegan Tortilla with Avocado & Lime

Avocado Tacos

If you've followed my vegetarian blog, then you've seen this one before. You basically batter and deep-fry slices of fresh avocado and use them as your filling instead of seasoned ground meat. We had them two or three times last year and they're pretty good.

Previously blogged here - click for recipe

Avocado tacos

Better than Ever

Tonight they seemed even better than before, for some reason. It might have been the squeeze of lime but I am inclined to think it was more the mango salsa, which was sooo good.

The "sour cream" was a vegan product, so I only took a bit. It's okay. It's not as good as the real deal, or at least that's my current opinion. (I've been finding that the more you eat a food, the more you learn to like it. I hope that's true for the cheese-less cheeses as well.) It has the right texture, but it's not as sour. But it did serve its purpose as a taco condiment.