I have a particular peeve regarding cooks who regularly lament, “I love X but my husband hates it, so we never get to eat it anymore…”
I mean, I get it: you love to cook, and you love to cook for the one you love. I’m right there with you. But if you love to cook (and eat!) something the rest of the family has no interest in, well then, all the more for you from time to time. Unless they’re too short to reach the counter yet, they can get by on something they can fix for themselves if they’d rather abstain.
In my house, this kind of discussion leads directly to the cauliflower. I can’t say I’d dream about it at night if it were suddenly wiped out, but I like it. Well enough to snatch one up at my CSA this past weekend, even knowing that my husband would not touch a bite of the dastardly vegetable.
With a recipe that’s pretty much “Mix 3T olive oil and 1 T sweet curry in a bowl. Toss with one head cauliflower, and bake at 325˚F for 30 minutes, stirring half-way through,” no one needs to get very emotional over it. In the end, it’s just another bowl of fabulous looking vegetables: To be or not to be enjoyed.
Looks delicious! When I was younger, my sisters and I were picky eaters. However, my mom was too so she didn’t force us to eat anything we didn’t like! Now, I shudder at the thought of life before vegetables. That being said, my mom never hesitated to make side dishes for my dad that no one else wanted to eat, even if she wasn’t going to eat them herself, she didn’t want to deprive him of foods he liked. I am definitely going to try this recipe out and try to win my roommates over to the world of cauliflower!
I never thought cauliflower can be baked into an awesome dish as this. No discussions about cauliflower in my household. Everyone likes it. With this recipe, everyone will probably love it!
This cauliflower sounds scrumptious! I love curried cauliflower though I’ve usually had it in a rice casserole-like pakistani dish; I haven’t had it on it’s own as a side. I will have to change that!
Well, that sounds intriguing as well. Do you have a recipe for that you could point to? I’d like to try it out. There’s bound to be more cauliflower at the market this weekend…