• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    9 months ago

    My mom went through an experimental phase with cauliflower when I was a kid. Spent a few weeks getting screamed at around dinner time every few days because I didn’t want to eat her nasty cauliflower tots or whatever the fuck. Just because you killed your taste buds with cigarettes doesn’t mean the rest of us have lady.

  • daskye@fedia.io
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    9 months ago

    I’m a vegan and love fake meat, I love tofu, I love seitan, I love beyond burger, I love mountains of veggies. I love bean burgers, veggie burgers, pakora, etc.

    I do not like cauliflower in any other form than in its OG form, lmao…

  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I hate cauliflower on its own but as a person with Celiac, cauliflower crust has been the best thing to exist since sliced gluten free bread

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      9 months ago

      I don’t have a recipe handy, but there’s one that uses rice flour and tapioca starch that’s decent as well.

  • exasperation@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    In my opinion, cauliflower sucks unless it’s been roasted/fried/seared with dry high heat to the point of being brown and crispy.

    If it is overcooked, the rupture of the cell walls makes that cabbage stank run out into the dish.

    If it’s still raw or cooked at too low a temperature (which includes any temperature in which liquid water will exist on the surface), it’s missing the delicious browning that happens at high heat.

    That means it doesn’t work as cauliflower “wings.” The breading/batter protects the cauliflower too much, and it ends up steaming itself inside. Just batter up some firm tofu instead, those are great wings.

    It can work as cauliflower “steak” I guess, but that doesn’t really taste like it should fit the culinary role of a protein/main. I’m all about roasting cauliflower, and flat slices make it easy to grill or sear evenly, but that just doesn’t fit that ecological niche that a steak does.

    So I generally don’t like cauliflower served with broccoli. They cook too differently to be able to actually cook them together in the same batch.