Eat Your Fractals! (Thanksgiving Sides To-Go)

Happy Thanksgiving!

So, I'm on my way out, onto the road, bringing with me a couple of side dishes for the big supper! I love trying out new and different foods. Grabbing the stuff I've never eaten before from the produce aisle is certainly a good way (for me) to make sure I eat my vegetables.

The first side dish: garlic roasted Romanesco cauliflower
This awesome cauliflower looks like fractals! I love it! Beautiful green florets, sweet, and in the shape of wicked cool fractals!

I used the recipe for garlic cauliflower from the Food Network. Alas, my oven must be a tad hotter than it should be, as the garlic burned some. I'll bring with me the cauliflower and not the overly browned garlic.


The second side dish: four carrot salad
... orange carrots, purple carrots, gold carrots, and yellow (satin!) carrots. Each have an variety of slightly different vitamins and minerals to offer, as well as a slightly different flavor (ranging from sweeter to slightly more celeric).

The recipe was exceptionally simple.
1) I sliced the organic carrots very, very thin.
2) I finely diced 1 medium shallot and added that to the carrots.
3) I finely diced 1/4 c. of dried cranberries and added those in, too.
4) I made a salad dressing with 3 T. dijon mustard, 1 T. garlic-chili sauce, 1/4 c. balsamic vinegar, 1/4 c. white wine vinegar, 1 T. organic sesame oil, 3 T. organic olive oil, 1 T. dried parsley flakes, 1 T. dried basil flakes, black pepper, and 2 T. Bragg Liquid Amino (used instead of plain old salt, this is a great healthful substitute with a lot of flavor).
5) I tossed together and let sit overnight.


Gobble, gobble!

Here are some pictures!