Cauliflower Power by Lindsay Grimes Freedman

Cauliflower Power by Lindsay Grimes Freedman ISBN-13: 9781579659011 Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Artisan Released: January 7th 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
This book shows how this versatile veggie, cauliflower, can be used in all your meals to make everything from blueberry muffins and a Mediterranean salad to cauliflower-crust pizza, Buffalo wings, tostadas, and gnocchi—even chocolate mousse and strawberry ice cream.


My Review:
Cauliflower Power is a cookbook of gluten-free recipes that use cauliflower. Some of these are simply dishes that use cauliflower as a vegetable, but she also uses cauliflower in granola, dough, a veggie burger, steaks, as rice, etc. The recipes were largely meat-free, but she did use eggs, dairy, and honey. A number of the dishes used a lot of dairy – half a stick of butter, a cup of cheese, etc. Many of the recipes use gluten-free flours, but otherwise she used easy to find ingredients. She frequently has you use a food processor and/or a high-speed blender.

The instructions were clear, but some recipes were fairly complicated. As I'm not trying to avoid gluten, I see no point in spending that much time on special, gluten-free ways of making a dish (especially as these often used dairy, which I do avoid). I was mostly interested in interesting ways to use cauliflower, and there are some recipes here that I will try.

The author started by explaining the five main ways to process cauliflower: whole head, steaks, florets, rice, and meal. She included 19 recipes for breakfast, 10 recipes for lunch (salads, wraps, bread, etc.), 8 recipes for stacks, 17 recipes for dinner, 14 recipes for sides, and 12 recipes for desserts. Each recipe included the serving size. Many of the recipes had pictures of the finished dish and some had pictures of the process.


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