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Five Ways to Eat: Cauliflower

Cauliflower is a love-hate vegetable for many people. They hate its cabbage-y taste and strange curdlike texture, or they love it in its many forms. We are among the latter, and we think there are so ...

Another Garden Surprise: Hello, Cauliflower!

I feel like I am being endlessly surprised by my garden this summer. Sometimes it just blows my mind that, yes, you put a seed into the ground, and it grows. Into something you can eat. Wait, how did ...

Basic Technique: How to Cut Cauliflower

Cauliflower was one of the first vegetables we actually liked as kids, and we're still eating them today! Despite their rather impenetrable-seeming appearance, cauliflowers are actually pretty easy to...

Recipe Roundup: Roasted Cauliflower

Ever since we tried roasted cauliflower, we've been absolutely hooked on the caramelized, sweet, and nutty florets. Roasting deepens the vegetable's flavor and gives it a texture that's both crispy an...

Farmers' Market Report: Weiser Family Farms
Los Angeles

Blue potatoes, red carrots, purple cauliflower – the rainbow of offerings at Weiser Family Farms is so vibrant right now that we couldn't limit this week's market report to just one fruit or veg...

Farmers' Market Report: Romanesco
Los Angeles

With its marvelous lime green cones and spirals, the Romanesco is a vegetable we have a hard time resisting whenever it catches our eye at the farmers' market....

Healthy Comfort Food: Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini

Middle Eastern dishes are at the top of our healthy comfort food list. The Middle Eastern restaurants we frequent in Chicago have tons of vegetable-packed options, and one of our favorite dishes ...

Good Quote: Peaches and the Educated Cauliflower

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." Mark Twain...

Farmer's Market Report: Mysterious Caulifower

While searching for strawberries last Sunday at the Civic Center Farmer’s Market, I saw mountains of this unusual looking cauliflower. Blowsy and loose, like a somewhat slovenly maiden aunt to the ...

April Fools Day Recipe: Is This Really a Bowl of Cereal?

Our favorite April Fools Day food tricks are more nice than naughty - the classic idea of serving foods that look like other foods. You've probably seen the meatloaf "iced" with mashed potatoes to loo...

Food Roundup: San Francisco Chronicle

In the San Francisco Chronicle this week, we're seeing a lot of Easter-themed recipes and recipes geared at what's in season at the farmer's markets....

Recipe: Farfalle with Cauliflower and Toasted Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs usually lie like a lazy blanket on top of pasta or casseroles. For this quick dish, we toasted them up in flavored olive oil, tossed them with roasted cauliflower, and let them shine as a ...