Cauliflower is a surprisingly versatile vegetable

This sounds good! You can make 'bread' slices out of cauliflower, and pizza crust.

The iron You has a lot of cauliflower recipes-

http://www.theironyou.com/

Oishii so ! I want to try it ! Will attempt to do so this weekend.

Defiantly going to givet this a go. Cauliflower is a favorite, especially boiled then oven baked smothered with a cheddar cheese and mustard sauce.

Been using cauliflower as a low-carb replacement for rice (which I love!) and it has been working. The only problem is that cauliflower isn't available all the time. Looked today and none were available. Last week, the bin was overflowing.

Goes great with Thai food and curries.

Cream Cauliflower soup with parmesan cheese is number one. Use lots of cream.

I love cauliflower now but hated it as a kid. I steam it and serve with a dressing or simply mayo and/or ketchup depending on who I share the table with. The recipe here looks interesting.

1 small cauliflower (5 kgs)

That's the S size ? And the L size is a 20 kg piece ? Everything is bigger in the US...

Boiled or steamed, it’s bland at best.

Bland is bland, no matter the recipe. In season, you can find tasty varieties at the market.They are great even raw. My fav are romanesco and early spring small white caulis from family garden. The big white ones, I like them coated in chickpea batter and fried (Indian recipe).

isn't available all the time.

Ah those nasty seasons... Well, you can buy frozen.

cauliflower is a healthy alternative to white rice.

Nor in real life. It's a good side once in a while but can't be your daily gohan. You"d need more than 5 bowls of cauliflower to get the calories of 1 bowl of rice. I like veggies but not to the point of eating my volume of them in one day. In addition, cruciferous are toxic in large amounts and over-eating them can destroy your thyroid.

That 5kgs is a typo....1kg Cauliflower is large, around 670g stalked/peeled. At 5kgs, you'll be taking home a vegetable the size of a basketball.

Vegetarians are welcome to swap in some tofu for the bacon.

Yes of course we are, because tofu tastes just like bacon. Or maybe Sara just assumes people who don't eat meat really don't care what their food tastes like, we just need to get as much protein as possible and tofu is the only non-flesh alternative. We don't, and it isn't.

Tofu is a good food in its own right, but it is not, never has been and never will be, a substitute for bacon.

And I disagree with her claim that there's nothing sexy about cauliflower. Boiled or steamed, it’s bland at best. The word is subtle. I love cauliflower. I love its subtle taste. Maybe that gets lost if you have lumps of flesh pummelling your palate. It's great boiled, steamed, frittered, in curry, in gratin, roasted...even if it doesn't come in 5kg sizes. (The smaller ones are sweeter, anyway).

I must admit I have never tried using cauli as a rice substitute. If I had a glut of caulis out of the allotment I might try this.

Cauliflower is delicious prepared Japanese-style: that is, with miso and flavouring (sweet wine or vinegar, depending on your current diet plan). Just boil, cut, and top with flavoured miso sauce. A new vegetable!! By the way, for newcomers to veggie life-style: beans or tofu must be matched with whole grains 4:1 in ratio to yield protein similar to animal protein (eat them together within half an hour). In this case, popcorn is probably not a suitable "whole grain."