UNLESS..... we are out the other day at the tasty Mexican restaurant and all day I am in the mood for French fries and black bean soup. What I get instead is the soup and this fascinating cauliflower dish: they somehow roast it in their wood fired oven with some spice etc. and it is crispy and amazing! NEVER have I loved a dish so much.
I go home and endeavor to do the same.
When you buy cauliflower, you get this big thing that looks like a huge human head with the skull and face removed! (you are slightly, like, "ewww")
I know, I have never thought cauliflower a very nice looking item. BUT what I realize is that it is a blank canvas upon which to paint your flavor and texture...
SO, Thursday I roasted half a head of cauliflower (recipe here) and put it onto spinach-garlic noodles (recipe here) and last night? I roasted a sweet potato and the rest of the cauliflower and we tossed them onto black bean coconut soup (recipe here) OH GOSH amazing :) Have a great weekend!
I'm a fan of roasted cauliflower, with lemon or curry.
ReplyDeleteI like it pickled as well.
I'm sure it tasted good. But you can have that blank canvass all to yourself...make all the flavors in the world, and I'll still skip a cauliflower. Thanks anyway!
ReplyDeleteCauliflower certainly is the brains of the produce dept.
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A few weeks ago I had a dish similar to the one you had....mine was at a vegetarian-asian diner. I had no idea cauliflower could be so good. SO darn yummy....but I know I wouldn't be able to recreate it myself. :(
I made some curried cauliflower the other night that was so good I didn't want to eat anything else.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it a personal triumph when you can make a recipe yourself like that? Nice job!
ReplyDeleteYou made it sound so good that I clicked on over... and then I read that "roasting the cauliflower intensifies the flavor"... um, okay then... no cauliflower for me!
ReplyDeleteI only eat cauliflower if I drown it in a mayonnaise/lemon pepper/cheese sauce after microwaving it into submission.