Jessica Seinfeld and Jerry have three kids, and she swears by presenting dip and vege sticks when the kids are hungry, and by increasing vegie consumption by the clever use of purees.
We have added spinach to chocolate brownies, avocado to chocolate icing, chickpeas to choc-chip biscuits, and cauliflower to scrambled eggs and to macaroni cheese.
As such, the BB family, of whom I have always been the sole ingestor of cauliflower, manages to eat a half to a whole head of cauli a week. Undetected. Yep! Clever clogs here stirs it through mashed potato, carbonara sauce, chicken pie, and even the icing of a carrot cake!!! Thanks to Mrs Seinfeld, I am becoming a little too adventurous. It tastes utterly crap as carrot cake icing, even with cream cheese and icing sugar mixed through. Some things just weren't meant to be....
The lovely snowy vege is a master in fighting off infection. It is low in fat, high in dietary fibre, folate, water and vitamin C, possessing a very high nutritional density. As a member of the brassica family, cauliflower shares with broccoli and cabbage several beneficial phytochemicals including sulforaphane, an anti-cancer compound released when cauliflower is chopped or chewed (or hopefully pureed). In addition, the compound indole-3-carbinal, which appears to work as an anti-oestrogen, appears to slow or prevent the growth of tumors of the breast and prostate. Cauliflower also contains other ingredients besides sulfurophane, substances which may improve the liver's ability to detoxify carcinogenic substances. A high intake of cauliflower has been found to reduce the risk of aggressive prostate cancer.
Romanesco cauli image from here.
It's good stuff people. Eat more of it! Recipes here, here, and especially here for something a little different to cauliflower-cheese.
In other news, I have STILL lost my camera, and the new mobile refuses to email pics to my computer, so the current craft will have to wait. Apologies!
xx
7 comments:
We love cauliolli and broccolflower in this house. I have a cracking recipe for cauliflower risotto where the cauli gets all mushed up as you stir the risotto and no-one even notices it is in there.
That's how I hide vegies from myself!
Ha! How mushroom do you need to keep a sheep like that?
Love it. Thanks for sharing.
YUMMO Trash - please share this recipe - sounds a perfect addition to the recipe file.
Oooh cauliflower - yummo.
I am lucky enough to have two boys who like cauliflower - they love a cauli soup with a bit of cheese in it. I am less successful with other veg, so I have to say I am a bit of a fan of Jessica Seinfeld's book.
My goodness. I'm officially scared of your Brownies :)
Surfed over from Bells' comments. I love cauliflower in any shape or form. Hwever my son and DIL with whom I live really prefer it with cheese sauce. That's great but there's so many othe ways too. Cauliflower soup and blue cheese! Yum with fresh bread. No recipe, I make it up as I go.
Vegtables and children? I must be one of the few who had little trouble with that, although one didn't like peas much and still doesn't. He used to eat as many as he was years old.
I could hear the gasps once in the supermarket as #3 son, then 5, announced loudly that his favourite vegetable was broccoli from his grandfather's garden!
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