Jalepenos are a vegetable that happens to be a fruit, just like carrots are a vegetable that happens to be a root, and lettuce is a vegetable that happens to be a leaf.
My friend sent me a recipe for gluten-free pizza that featured a crust made of mashed cauliflower. She claimed to enjoy it, but I have no idea in what universe that would qualify as pizza.
Agreed, nutritional yeast on popcorn is really good. I tried to make a “not-cheese” sauce with it once and was disappointed but my husband liked the results.
I would, however, expect it to taste like “Cheese Flavor”, the flavor that is used in chips/crisps/biscuits/crackers/junk food. Which, though not the same flavor as cheese, is popular with a lot of people. And the association with Parmesan is not accidental: Parmesan has a lot of this flavor.
And I was eating Cauliflower with cheese sauce this morning: I would not have thought of calling it “natchos” (cause it ain’t), but brussel sprouts (same family) with cheese-substitute sauce doesn’t sound inedible.
I wish I could, but this sounds truly awful. Brussels sprouts are bad enough, the “sauce” sounds bad enough, my best guess is the combo would be horrific.
Calm down… I was just saying that in my experience, when recipes are inexplicably veggied-up and made “healthy”, it’s almost always women doing it. Few men would adulterate nachos in such a way- they’d either eat them straight up or do without.