Sage Cauliflower with Crispy Bread Crumbs

With a bed of pasta, this can be a meal!

We took this dish and turned it into a full meal by serving it on top of some fresh, 50% spelt pasta (just make fresh pasta with 50% spelt flour, or any whole-wheat flour if you don’t have spelt), but we think that this will also work just fine as a side dish by leaving out the pasta. And, while we made some crispy sage leaves for an extra topping, you could leave those off, too. It just depends on how much scartchin’ you want to do.

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Crispy Cauliflower Nuggets

Crispy! Crunchy! Tasty!

To be honest, we can’t remember the last time we ate fast food. We just don’t do it. Even when we’re traveling we won’t hit a fast food place. Instead, we’ll bring a lunch with us, or we’ll find a local restaurant where we can sit down and properly enjoy our meal. But, we can tell you that our Crispy Cauliflower Nuggets won’t be anything like that greasy chicken paste that fast food establishments shape into nuggets, coat with breading, freeze, ship around the world, then deep fry. We think they’re far better.

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Ad Hoc Pickled Cauliflower

ad hoc pickled cauliflower
ad hoc pickled cauliflower
Pretty simple pickles.

We’ll be posting pickles and condiments over the next week or so — all will be pretty easy, and most will be coming from one of our favorite cookbooks, Ad Hoc at Home, by Thomas Keller. This is partly because they were recipes that we wanted to try, but, mainly, it was because we were busy making these things for a small French-style picnic luncheon we were catering. With everything going on during the holiday season, these simple recipes were really lifesavers, just as they were listed in the book.

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Roasted Cauliflower Tacos

cauliflower tacos

cauliflower tacos
Have everyone fill his or her own tacos.

We had these several weeks ago for a quick meal — everything can be made ahead and reheated for dinner, which is what we did — that we decided that we’d make them again, and turn the recipe into a post, so others can try Cauliflower tacos, too. The real key here is seasoning and roasting the cauliflower, which brings out a lot of nutty flavor, turning a somewhat bland vegetable into an outstanding vegetable.

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Cream of Cauliflower Soup

cream of cauliflower soup

cream of cauliflower soup
Perfect for a cold night.

You might not think it gets cold here in Southern Arizona, but it does. Not the bone-numbing cold of the upper midwest, but we will have a few nights below freezing each winter. (Yes, we know all you Minnesotans are laughing at us right now. It’s okay; we don’t mind). When this happens, our minds turn toward soup as a warming meal.

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Pan-Seared Cauliflower

pan-seared cauliflower

pan-seared cauliflower
Hearty enough for a main course. And, oh, so delicious!

On Saturday, we headed over to the farmers’ market to pick up some vegetables, before we went to the supermarket for the rest of our weekly shopping. Normally, we don’t hit the farmers’ market, as we often have enough vegetables from our weekly CSA share to last a week. This week, we needed a bit more to last us until Tuesday. When we do go to the farmers’ market, we generally don’t think of buying specific types of produce; instead, we look around and see what looks good. This Saturday was different; we wanted something in particular.

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Cauliflower Gratin

cauliflower gratin

old-computer-thumbSorry about the hiatus, but we had a slight problem with our computerized filing system here at Scratchin’ It Central. Fortunately, we were quickly able to upgrade to something newer, and, we hope, more reliable.

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