Romanesco Cauliflower

[Pulu]

In my organic box yesterday was a Romanesco Cauliflower. Although I have had it delivered once before, I simply steamed it. Does anyone have any interesting recipe ideas of how I could make it a little tastier. I don't particularly like cheese but I do like spice. Is this a vegetable that can cope with spices?

Useit as an impromptu maths lesson in Fractals?

Seriously though, anything you can do with a cauliflower you can do with a Romanenesco. DH slices them very thinly then fries the slices in curry spices.

:) - Maybe we should start a thread on Fractal Foods? Thank you for that, I hadn't thought about using curry.

was it abel and cole? just asking as i got one today too, but it did have a nice sounding recipe idea in the box from the latest hugh fearnley-whittingstall book

it goes:

preheat oven to 200 degrees
cut cauli into florets, rinse them but don't dry
in a large roasting tin mix cauli, juice of a lemon, 3tbsp oil, 1/2 tsp hot smoked paprika, salt and pepper. mix it all up together.
cut another lemon into 6 and scatter into tray.
rpast for 25-30 mins until slightly caramelised round edges (turn once during cooking)

squeeze juice from roasted lemon over the cauliflower and scatter with some sea salt, then serve.

That sounds delish! no it was Riverford.

This has nothing to do with Romanesco - but it relates to vegetables. I have to tell someone!

Today I decided to try out a range of vegetables. So I bought some shallots, Mixed peppers, Zucchini, Portabello mushrooms (for hubby, I don't like mushrooms), parsnips and carrots.

Cut vegetables into bite sized pieces (long!) and seasoned them with - paprika, allspice, olive oil, home-made jerk seasoning, salt, freshly ground black pepper, freshly grated ginger and garlic. Rub in the spices and leave to marinate. I left it for a few hours.

Roast in a preheated oven - roast to your liking. I like my vegetables soft but not mushy. I really enjoyed it. I know it's a lot of spices but it livens up the vegetables!

I made a large bowl and put it in the fridge.