Faux Potatoes

Can anyone tell me how to make fake mashed potatoes out of cauliflower?
I've looked and looked, and there is NOTHING on this subject in asdlc. Can
anyone help? ;-)

Carol
--
Fasting BG 157
227/223/150 (official weigh-day: Thursday)
Bernstein 5/25/2004
Diabetes Dx 5/15/2001
Diet, Exercise, Oral Medication

NO!!! but I've been wondering if 3 twinkies a day on induction is too
many, can you help? ;-)

--
Cheri
Type 2, no meds for now.

Damsel in dis Dress wrote in message ...

Can anyone tell me how to make fake mashed potatoes out of cauliflower?
I've looked and looked, and there is NOTHING on this subject in asdlc.
Can
anyone help? ;-)

Carol
--
Fasting BG 157
227/223/150 (official weigh-day: Thursday)
Bernstein 5/25/2004
Diabetes Dx 5/15/2001
Diet, Exercise, Oral Medication

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:16:11 -0700, "Cheri"
wrote:

NO!!! but I've been wondering if 3 twinkies a day on induction is too
many, can you help? ;-)

I would limit yourself to 2 Twinkies a day, but you can have all the
low-carb bars you want. Really! No vegetables are required on this diet,
either.

Carol
--
Fasting BG 157
227/223/150 (official weigh-day: Thursday)
Bernstein 5/25/2004
Diabetes Dx 5/15/2001
Diet, Exercise, Oral Medication

"Damsel in dis Dress" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me how to make fake mashed potatoes out of cauliflower?
I've looked and looked, and there is NOTHING on this subject in asdlc.
Can
anyone help? ;-)

Carol, I'll be glad to tell you, if you'll tell me how to make fake
cauliflower out of mashed potatoes.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:03:05 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to make fake mashed potatoes out of cauliflower?
I've looked and looked, and there is NOTHING on this subject in asdlc.
Can anyone help? ;-)

Perhaps it is somewhat of a confusion. There is no way to make fake mashed
potatoes out of cauliflower. Mashed cauliflower, on the other hand, is
rather good food, despite not being mashed potatoes. Make mashed
cauliflower by mashing cauliflower: cook until tender (steam, microwave in
very little or no water, simmer in water to cover. We do the latter, but
only because we know our ricer will remove any excess water). Drain. Mash.
Season to taste.

If you have a potato ricer, you can make a dryer and (IMO) superior
product. Squeeze over the sink until the water is mostly squeezed out
before ricing the now dry cauliflower.

Toss with seasonings of your preference, certainly salt and butter,
probably not cream (because if you wanted all that water in your butter,
why drain the cauliflower in the first place?), freshly ground black
pepper, perhaps a scraping of nutmeg.

If you cook the cauliflower less than thoroughly tender (so it won't go
through the ricer) you can still use your ricer to drain much of the
water, then scrape it out of the ricer to get a lovely crunchy vegetable
base for gloppy stuff like curries.

I suspect that a still crunchy scrushedMartin (215/167/165 since 4/2003)
$-but-not-rice cauliflower and a
VERY hot wok could make a presentable fried-rice-like dish, but I'd have
to re-season my sadly neglected wok to find out for sure.

Martin (215/167/165 since 4/2003)
--
Martin Golding | You have a microwave.
DoD #236 BMWMOA #55952 SMTC #2 | Why are you cooking?

Oh thank God, now I won't have to spend hours searching for for that
danged, elusive, cauliflower recipe. ;-)

--
Cheri
Type 2, no meds for now.

Damsel in dis Dress wrote in message ...

I would limit yourself to 2 Twinkies a day, but you can have all the
low-carb bars you want. Really! No vegetables are required on this
diet,
either.

Carol
--
Fasting BG 157
227/223/150 (official weigh-day: Thursday)
Bernstein 5/25/2004
Diabetes Dx 5/15/2001
Diet, Exercise, Oral Medication

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:28:10 -0500, "Jim Bard" wrote:

"Damsel in dis Dress" wrote in message
.. .
Can anyone tell me how to make fake mashed potatoes out of cauliflower?
I've looked and looked, and there is NOTHING on this subject in asdlc.
Can
anyone help? ;-)

Carol, I'll be glad to tell you, if you'll tell me how to make fake
cauliflower out of mashed potatoes.

You'd have to make it out of uncooked potatoes, in order to carve the fine
detail of the cauliflower into the potatoes. It's a meticulous process.
Are you up to the task?

Carol
--
Fasting BG 157
227/223/150 (official weigh-day: Thursday)
Bernstein 5/25/2004
Diabetes Dx 5/15/2001
Diet, Exercise, Oral Medication

Thanks Martin.

Carol


On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 03:28:35 GMT, Martin Golding wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:03:05 -0500, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to make fake mashed potatoes out of cauliflower?
I've looked and looked, and there is NOTHING on this subject in asdlc.
Can anyone help? ;-)

Perhaps it is somewhat of a confusion. There is no way to make fake mashed
potatoes out of cauliflower. Mashed cauliflower, on the other hand, is
rather good food, despite not being mashed potatoes. Make mashed
cauliflower by mashing cauliflower: cook until tender (steam, microwave in
very little or no water, simmer in water to cover. We do the latter, but
only because we know our ricer will remove any excess water). Drain. Mash.
Season to taste.

If you have a potato ricer, you can make a dryer and (IMO) superior
product. Squeeze over the sink until the water is mostly squeezed out
before ricing the now dry cauliflower.

Toss with seasonings of your preference, certainly salt and butter,
probably not cream (because if you wanted all that water in your butter,
why drain the cauliflower in the first place?), freshly ground black
pepper, perhaps a scraping of nutmeg.

If you cook the cauliflower less than thoroughly tender (so it won't go
through the ricer) you can still use your ricer to drain much of the
water, then scrape it out of the ricer to get a lovely crunchy vegetable
base for gloppy stuff like curries.

I suspect that a still crunchy scrushedMartin (215/167/165 since 4/2003)
$-but-not-rice cauliflower and a
VERY hot wok could make a presentable fried-rice-like dish, but I'd have
to re-season my sadly neglected wok to find out for sure.

Martin (215/167/165 since 4/2003)

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:33:56 -0700, "Cheri"
wrote:

Oh thank God, now I won't have to spend hours searching for for that
danged, elusive, cauliflower recipe. ;-)

It really is difficult to find that. People keep talking about it, but no
one ever posts a recipe. It's so frustrating!

Carol
--
Fasting BG 157
227/223/150 (official weigh-day: Thursday)
Bernstein 5/25/2004
Diabetes Dx 5/15/2001
Diet, Exercise, Oral Medication

That was done on the TV show: "Low Carb and Lovin' It"

I don't remember much, but I think he added some cream cheese to the food
processor.