Trendy Vegetables :: Cauliflower Rice

I'm coming a little late to the party, but that's par for the course in the Mag household.  Really, we're late so often that friends routinely tell us that parties start a good 2 hours before they do.  I might be understating it, but the addition of a 3rd member to our ranks has not helped this issue.

So its not surprising that I'm late when it comes to trending things as well.  I mean, Shan has been touting the deliciousness of brussel sprouts for ages, and I haven't tried it. [Although the Butter Keks she speaks of?  Ah-mazing! Publix has a more expensive type, but I'm staying loyal to my first love, found at Aldi's.]  I'm even just now slowly getting on the avacado bandwagon, though still mostly in guac.  So I surprised myself last night when I picked up a head of cauliflower, never before spotted in my shopping cart.  Or my mother's.  

What I'm trying to tell you is that I bought cauliflower for the first time.  Might have even eaten it for the first time.  And I blame my mother that it has taken me this long.

My madre, while we're speaking of her (Mom, are your ears burning?  Is your nose itching?  What about your left tibia? {name that 90's sitcom}), even tried this trendy vegetable before I did.  Roasted cauliflower, or something like it.  She said it tasted like bleh... cauliflower.  So no wonder I wasn't over-eager to try it.

But following a posting by a frand on fb, I found this recipe, and thought I'd give it a go.  We're feeling all "fresh is best" up in the hizz-ouse, and it just seemed right.  So I tried passing off cauliflower as rice.  First person I fooled?  Myself.  I mean, I was there, I knew it wasn't rice, but still - I didn't miss the rice.  It was just right.  Thus I've developed a new title for my someday book: Soy Sauce Covers a Multitude of Sins (c).  

I can't say if it kept me feeling full or not, the way actual rice does, since I went to bed about 1 hour after I ate it.  But it was totally yummy, and although it wasn't exactly like rice, I didn't miss rice when I ate it, if that makes any sense.

For the cauliflower's second trick, I sent some to work today with Handsome.  I didn't tell him that it was all vegetables, I only hinted that it was "a ridiculously healthy lunch" mostly because I love a good teaser, and I like to trick him.  Same reason I always button the top button of his uniform shirts when I fold them.  He pulls them on, his head gets stuck, and he has to unbutton it with his head trapped in the shirt.

Its the little things.

Next up, I might try it as some pizza dough or perhaps as bread, since pinterest has be practically screaming at me to do so.  But at least covered in soy sauce, I'm a huge fan of this mysteriously color-less vegetable!  Whats your go-to veggie right now?

<3 M.