Guest Post: Buffalo Cauliflower

So now that I have a successful food blog (it's had over 70 views!!), I have decided to include my first guest post! My words will be in the font you're reading, and hers will be in the one that isn't this one.

This is my beautiful girlfriend:

*sometimes I want to kill Kevin

She doesn't like cauliflower unless it's covered in buffalo sauce. She got this idea from a vegan restaurant she went to in Los Angeles. We add non-vegan things to it because we hate animals.

Buffalo Cauliflower

Tis true.  Having grown up on a hog farm in Southern Virginia, I don't really understand people who don't eat animals.  My vegan friends say things like, "But would you eat a pet cat?  Or a dog? If not, then it's illogical to eat any animal."  What they don't realize is that I would absolutely eat their beloved pets under certain circumstances.  With ketchup.  No regrets.  But I digress...

When I was in L.A., visiting some vegan friends, they took me to some fancy vegan restaurant called Sage.  Most things tasted like spicy cardboard, but the hero of the meal was the buffalo cauliflower.  It was so well executed.  For realz, I thought I was eating buffalo wings when I closed my eyes.  From that day onward, I swore that I would bring the deliciousness of buffalo cauliflower to the other LA.

So, I've tried this dish now a couple of different ways.  While I don't think mine is a perfect match to Sage's, I feel like I've gotten pretty close.  I adapted the recipe from Skinnytaste.

Servings: 6

Ingredients:

- 1 cup water

- 1 cup All Purpose Flour

- 2 tsp garlic powder

- 6.5 cups cauliflower florets

- bottle of Franks Hot Sauce

- 1 tbsp melted butter

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees
• Combine water, flour, and garlic in bowl, then mix.
• Dump florets into mixture and coat well.
• Using tongs, remove florets from mixture onto baking sheet.

• Bake 20 minutes.
• Remove cauliflower from heat; drizzle florets w/ butter.
• Pour bottle of Franks Hot Sauce over florets.

This picture was taken after we had already eaten some.

• Broil additional 3-5 minutes.
• Serve alone or with celery & blue cheese.

Or with a piece of fish. In retrospect possibly we should have eaten these things on different days.

Thank you to Veronica for the best guest post we've ever had on this blog! Coming later this week: how to cook and eat good food on a busy weekday, plus another guest post!