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cauliflower

  • Roasted Cauliflower Couscous with Dates, Almonds, and Cherries

    Roasted Cauliflower Couscous with Dates, Almonds, and Cherries

    When vegetables are starting to turn in the fridge, you have two choices: dump them in the trash and cover them with other garbage so no one else knows of your crime. Or, two, roast them and turn them into dinner.

  • Fancy Weeknight Chicken and Cauliflower

    Fancy Weeknight Chicken and Cauliflower

    Yesterday I went food shopping with my friend Diana. We went to Lassen’s and the produce looked fine, not great, so I grabbed two cauliflowers (cauliflower?) even though it’s the height of summer and I should be buying corn and tomatoes. Then we went across the street to the butcher (McCall’s) and despite the vast…

  • Wham-Bam Cauliflower Gratin

    Wham-Bam Cauliflower Gratin

    Nothing sets me off like sanctimoniousness; that holier-than-thou, self-righteous, sermon-on-the-mount style of food writing. Often the sentiments are well-intentioned but everything is done so humorlessly, it’s hard for the average person to connect. And so it goes with vegetables. The general take, these days, seems to be that we should eat less dead bodies and…

  • Quick-Brined Pork Chops with Pan-Fried Cauliflower

    Quick-Brined Pork Chops with Pan-Fried Cauliflower

    For the past few months, I’ve been buying kosher chicken breasts from Trader Joe’s not because I prefer kosher chicken breasts but because Trader Joe’s is underneath my gym and it’s way easier to grab chicken there than to make an extra stop on my way home. The problem with this is that kosher chicken…

  • Fun Times with Farro: Cauliflower and Cara Cara Oranges, Smoked Trout and Parmesan

    Fun Times with Farro: Cauliflower and Cara Cara Oranges, Smoked Trout and Parmesan

    They say you’ve gotta know the rules before you break the rules and I think that’s true of cooking as much as it’s true of art or writing or any other discipline. Before you make deconstructed spaghetti and meatballs with foam and fruit leather and dehydrated beef essence, you should probably learn how to make…

  • Caramelized Cauliflower Frittata

    Caramelized Cauliflower Frittata

    Adam in the Bible was good at naming things, Adam the food blogger, not so much. I first called this “Caramelized Cauliflower Frittata with Onions, Cheddar and Nutmeg” then thought it was weird to emphasize the nutmeg, even though that gives you a clue as to the flavor profile. Next title was “Caramelized Cauliflower Frittata…

  • Grilled Cauliflower Steaks with Kumquat Olive Relish

    Grilled Cauliflower Steaks with Kumquat Olive Relish

    What is grilling? Does it have to happen outside? Why? These are questions I often ask myself, especially since I’ve yet to be able to buy my dream grill (a Weber kettle drum charcoal grill) to begin my own grilling education. In the interim, I’ve read–in fact, I’ve written in my own cookbook–that you can…

  • Creamy Creamless Cauliflower Soup

    Creamy Creamless Cauliflower Soup

    Sometimes it takes a person’s wild enthusiasm to get you to try a recipe that doesn’t immediately jump off the page. Take, for example, Paul Bertolli’s cauliflower soup. After I declared my love for cauliflower in this Cauliflower Casserole post, a commenter named Eliza said, “If you love cauliflower, you should try Paul Bertolli’s Cauliflower…

  • Cauliflower Gratin with Gruyère and Goat Cheese

    Cauliflower Gratin with Gruyère and Goat Cheese

    Call me a freak, but I get excited about cauliflower. It’s got great texture and, when cooked properly, can yield lots of big flavor. Most often I roast it in the oven or I caramelize it in a pan; not very often do I boil it, but even boiled cauliflower can hold its own. On…

  • Build Your Own Vegetable Curry

    Build Your Own Vegetable Curry

    Healthy dinners don’t fare very well if you refer to them as healthy dinners. You might know in your head that it’s a healthy dinner, but if you call it that, forget about it, everyone at the table’s going to groan. So do what I do: package a healthy dinner inside a package everyone already…