Buffalo Caulifower

Heather Painchaud — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:00:00 +0000

You have definitely seen this recipe on Pinterest. The buffalo style cauliflower. And we’re all wondering the same thing, “is it really that good?” I was wondering the same thing, so I made it.

It was Halloween weekend. Ty and I had considered going out to a couple of different parties but we were so exhausted from the week (a few too many early mornings) so we decided to chill out at home (read: free drinks and no one explaining their costume to me).

What you need for Buffalo Cauliflower

1 head of cauliflower, cut into florets

1 cup of buttermilk

1 cup all purpose flour

2 tsp garlic salt

1 cup buffalo hot sauce

So when I made this I had to come up with a few substitutions;

1). I don’t have buffalo sauce just kickin’ around. But I found this recipe and used it instead. It was super easy to make and took no time at all!

2). I didn’t have any buttermilk. But I referred to my always handy “America’s Test Kitchen” cookbook (go get this right now-it’s so awesome) and it said I could substitute 1 cup milk mixed with 1 tablespoon white vinegar. Then let it sit to thicken for about 10 minutes. TOTALLY WORKED!

Pre heat the oven to 450*F

Cut up your cauliflower into bite sized bits.

Mix the flour, buttermilk and garlic salt in a large bowl.

Dump the cauliflower pieces into the flour mixture and stir to coat.

Place the cauliflower on a cookie sheet and bake for 15-18 minutes. At 15 minutes my cauliflower wasn’t crispy enough for me. Oh I would also recommend greasing your baking sheet prior to putting the cauliflower on it 🙂 Learned that one the hard way.

While your cauliflower is baking, make your sauce (if you are making your own sauce) If not just chill.

I used a deeper aluminum baking dish, like something you might use for lasagne. This resulted in NOT crispy cauliflower. Even after 20 minutes at 450!?!??! So I threw the cauliflower on a greased baking sheet and put it back in the oven for 7 minutes. TA DA!

Once the 18-ish minutes are up, take the cauliflower out and pour the buffalo sauce over and toss to coat. Stick the buffalo sauce coated cauliflower back in the oven for another 5-8 minutes.

It was yummy. Does this recipe fool me into thinking I’m actually eating Buffalo wings? Not even close (especially the way mine turned out). BUT is it a delicious way to eat cauliflower? YES!

So I give it 3 out of 5 spoons.

NEW INFO: My girlfriend Rachel made this on parchment paper and she told me her’s turned out super crispy-not to mention an easy clean up! So I guess I’m just gonna have to make this again, oh shucks!

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Zucchini Bites

Heather Painchaud — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Zucchini has been in abundance this year so I have been on the lookout for fabulous zucchini recipes.

I found this pin for Zucchini Bites and thought that I would give it a try.

The recipe can be found here from Curious Country Cook. Just looking at this pin I knew that it had to contain zucchini, cheese, egg and breadcrumbs. You could experiment with all sorts of combinations yourself… the possibilities are endless!

I used one cup of shredded zucchini, one egg, two tbsp breadcrumbs, one quarter cup of grated cheddar cheese and one tbsp of Parmesan cheese.

I mixed it all up and put it into mini muffin cups as recommended.

Bake for about 20 minutes at 350°.

They were…. interesting. Nothing like tater tots {which the writer and pinners suggested}. They were more like mini zucchini quiches. And while I thought that they tasted good and were a pretty healthy appetizer alternative, the family as a whole turned up their noses.

So this recipes gets two spoons.

Be sure to check out this 20+ Pie Iron Recipe post with lots of ideas!

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