Cauliflower

Sometimes I astonish myself.

Grated 9 cauliflower today.  Yes, 9.  I was stocking up because they were beautiful, on sale, and a fairly large part of our diet at times.  So 9 grated cauliflower, bagged and into the freezer.  I grated the central stem of each cauliflower with the florets because it cooks just the same.

Which left the leaves of 9 cauliflower.  I discarded all the dried, cut off ends and any blemished leaves or stalks.  I ended up with about 3 cups of waste, including all the crumbs and things from the grating process.  That went in the compost bin.  The leaves and stems I ran through the food processor on slice and turned them into a bit of a braise, cooking them in some pork fat until tender, then combining with some cooked slices of onions.  For dinner, I added some shredded pork, two diced tomato in an Indian flavoured dish (seasoned with garlic, chilli, ginger, green curry paste, yellow curry powder).  I served some of this for lunch today and there's enough left over to have as a side dish tonight.

That left me with about 4 cups of the sliced, pork fat and onion seasoned, cooked cauliflower stalks.  Hmmmm.  Into the food blender for cauliflower soup with a vegetable bouillon cube and a bit of milk.  Great, except a little fibrous. So, through a strainer.  Great soup.  So finally, I was left with about 2 cups of cooked, somewhat chewy, flavoured but pressed dry cauliflower stalks which I mixed with an egg and a cup of mozzaralla and baked at 450 in a pizza shape to give me a low-carb pizza bread for lunch tomorrow.

The only stuff I threw out was stuff that was either bad, completely dried out, or yellow.
Take that, hunger challenge.