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.
Let me just tell you, I have been obsessed over the cauliflower nuggets and have been eating them by the boat load (usually with BBQ sauce). Well, I made the ‘crazy goood ranch dressing’ yesterday. And roasted some cauliflower. Today I packed the cold cauliflower and a serving of the dressing to snack on at work and… O.M.G!!! I am in heaven. The nuggets are awesome anyway and the butternut fries with blueberry ketchp are good, but this combo? Just…YUM! Im going to have to make this stuff by the metric ton. Thank you, CCK!
:)!!
Making this right now. I read a ton of blogs and I really love yours! Your writing and photos make me happy 🙂
Aww Tracie, thank you so much!
I LOVE roasted cauliflower! It’s seriously like a treat for me to eat it at dinner. I like to steam mine for about 60 seconds and then toss it around in salt, pepper, olive oil, and a good tandoori masala, then roast it and dip it in a homemade ranch dressing. I am trying to cut out dairy all together, so I’m thinking of trying your vegan ranch with this…and that vegan stuffing sounds phenomenal! Thanks for all the amazing vegan ideas. I’ve never eaten a lot of meat outside of seafood, which my body still requires a few times per week, but I was also heavily reliant on eggs and dairy to fill that void. Your blog is helping me a lot! I’ve had some challenging health issues as of late and have to really rethink what is going into my body. If only I could have chocolate all day long…
I love roasted cauliflower! Never would have thought to serve it with barbecue sauce.
Oh my! This roasted cauliflower is great! Thank you! Love your recipes!! Keep them coming… : )
I bought cauliflower specifically to try them roasted and dipped in bbq sauce (I usually hate cauliflower.) I will definitely be buying a lot more cauliflower in the future!!! SO yummy!
Wow, such a simple recipe, yet it’s something I’ve never even thought to try before. I actually have cauliflower right now and I’ll be making this for dinner, so thanks!
P.S. I’ve dry roasted broccoli before and it turns out delicious. I also like to lightly steam it and serve with ketchup. I know, it sounds weird, but I can’t recommend it enough. Just try a little, you might really like it!
Is there any way you could add a search feature to your blog? The only bad thing about so many yummy recipes is when I go back to try and find one particular recipe – I get lost! (Though getting lost on this blog doesn’t seem to be a bad thing unless I am pressed for time (; ) Thanks!
Good news! I already have one :).
It’s in the upper-right corner, near the foodbuzz ads. Depending on your browser, it might be pretty small… but it says “search” and under it there’s a thin rectangular box where you can put in whatever term/terms you want and hopefully find the result you’re looking for.
I would never have thought to roast cauliflower! I’ve just made this to go with your lentil curry, I roasted a whole cauliflower head intending to have half now and save half for tomorrow’s lunch but I’ve just eaten it all! I shall have to go and buy more cauliflower tomorrow…this stuff is addictive!
Thanks for this recipe! I just made it and they actually do taste like chicken nuggets. Please keep the non-dessert recipes coming too! 🙂