#4 Cauliflower in Red Sauce


Holy moly! There's only two ingredients in this one: cauliflower and carrot seasoning oil. Carrot seasoning whaa? Yes. Carrot seasoning oil? Is there such a thing? Apparently, but I could not find this in Ranch 99. In fact, I didn't even use cauliflower, but a cousin of the cauliflower: romanesco. I found this beautifully patterned vegetable in the farmer's market. It has a distinct natural fractal pattern to it. There's me and my conch-like vegetable on the day I found it. 

According to the ever dependable wikipedia, romanesco is first documented in Italy in the 16th century. Personally, it has a very similar taste and texture to cauliflower. I'm also not a big fan of cauliflower because it I find it very bland, so my rating on this is already biased. If you love cauliflower, like my friend Alex does, you may disagree.

Easiness: 5/5 
Tastiness: 2/5
Verdict: It's an average taste: pretty one-dimensional since it's really only one main ingredient. I added salt and pepper to taste to give it more depth. I recommend adding in broccoli and maybe one other vegetable to give it more variety. This will add more taste and texture to the dish without making it too complicated. Also, if anyone reading this knows anything about this mysterious carrot seasoning oil, I'd love to hear more about it and what it tastes like. 


Ingredients:
1 head/stalk romanesco (cauliflower or broccoli will work too)
dash of sesame oil (as a substitute to carrot seasoning oil)
salt and pepper to taste


Cut and blanch the romanesco. Heat up some oil and stir fry the romanesco.  Shut off the heat and add the sesame oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.




Haha. That's it. Not much to it at all. I guess this will be a short post. The end.

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