Howdy, chocolate truffles!
Yesterday, I tried to make healthy chocolate brownies.
Emphasis on the word tried. Luckily, dinner made up for it:
I am in love with this: Bread-Free Vegan Stuffing.
I make it at least twice a month, and I’ve even started cooking a double batch now (to yield four large servings instead of two). I bought a giant pan just for that recipe.
Along with the stuffing: whole-wheat toast and roast cauliflower with bbq sauce.
Lately I cannot keep my hands away from roasted cauliflower. It’s just so good, especially dipped in the barbecue sauce! Reminds me of chicken nuggets, which is weird because I never really liked those. I just liked the barbecue sauce.
Cauliflower Nuggets
(easiest recipe ever)
- raw cauliflower
- roasting pan
- optional: barbecue sauce
Whatcha do: Cut the cauliflower and spread out on the roasting pan. Turn the oven on to 400 degrees (no need to pre-heat) and stick the pan in there for 30-50 minutes. Then set the oven to “high broil” and broil 2-3 more minutes, depending on how crispy you like it. (I usually turn the oven completely off after this and leave the cauliflower inside for another 20 or so minutes.) Serve with your favorite bbq sauce or ranch dressing, for dipping.
Really good with Crazy-Good Ranch Dressing.
Hi Katie! Thanks so much for the cauli-niggets recipe! I made them tonight for dinner, and they were so yummy! I’m allergic to gluten and don’t eat meat so I haven’t had real chicken nuggets in years, and even though I don’t miss them per se, these were definately satisfying! And I love that its a great way to get another serving of veg!
I’m so excited you made them! Haha I feel the same way… maybe it’s just something about the “dipping” process that makes you feel like a little kid? 🙂
I always end up eating the skin from my acorn squash even though I always regret it later!
definitely veggies for me too – i WANT to eat them but i can’t!! and sometimes oatmeal, too, if it’s my second bowl of the day 😉
When i eat a lot of ice cream i feel that way!!
I made some low-fat brownies the other day…about 145 calories in each compared to 400!
I am sometimes guilty at overindulging in foods that I know will make me feel yucky afterwards. I try really hard not too, although sometimes it just happens!!!
i hear ya on the veggies! just the other night i had a TON of broccoli with my dinner. it was sooo good- steamed perfectly, with a little butter on it. mmm! But I felt so uncomfortable after- not fair! veggies are good for us and it makes me not want to eat a whole bunch of them in one sitting haha
Why do things that are bad for you taste so good?! Ok, not that veggies are bad, but you know what I mean! 🙂
Hi Katie,
I really really want to try this recipe! Please excuse my ignorance, but what does the broil setting do? I am in the UK and my oven doesn’t seem to have one.
Jess
Hmmm… broiling it makes the tops extra-crispy. So it won’t be the same without a broiler, but it will still be uber-delicious, just in a different way! Maybe try setting your oven as high as it goes for the last 5 minutes of baking, to get it crispy? (But watch that it doesn’t burn!)
Thanks Katie- I’ll try that next time! I just baked it without broiling and it was pretty yummy, if a little soft in the middle still (:
Jess
Samoas sound most delicious, but soy-free tofu sounds most interesting!
I can relate with the veggie-fix. I eat so many veggies, my family has to serve themselves out first and set aside leftovers for my dad’s work lunch BEFORE I serve myself out (this is if the veggies were made for the entire family, rather than just for moi-self). I usually fill half of my plate with veggies (and it’s stacked waaaaaaaaaaay high). If it’s a veggie that contains lotsa water (zuchini, cauliflower, brocollie), then I will get “full” faster, but inside I really am still hungry, so I keep on eating the yummy flavored vegs. I can’t help myself! I’m just one veg-nut!
I once read somewhere that, unlike foods such as potato chips, vegetables can’t be addictive. Clearly the author had never tried roast cauliflower!