Common name: Cauliflower, Gobhi गोभी (Hindi), Kobi (Manipuri)

Botanical name: Brassica oleracea var. botrytis Family: Brassicaceae (cabbage family)

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Broccoli and cauliflower are two derivatives of cabbage, both selected for their edible, immature flower heads. Broccoli is grown for the clustered green flower buds that are picked before they open and eaten raw or cooked. The cauliflower head is a cluster of aborted, malformed flower buds that stopped developing in the bud stage. Cauliflowers come in white, lime green and purple varieties. Both cauliflower and broccoli will produce viable flowers and seed pods if left in the ground through the cool season and into the warmer weather and lengthening days of spring or summer.

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This is a macro image of a purple cauliflower, sadly the macro lens has picked up all the imperfections - far too many to edit out so here it is, mildew and all.

Sparassis spathulata

Lunch will be cauliflower cheese - when I took it out of the fridge I realised there was a resemblance with my teapot and its cosy. There isn't a good light today so this has a very high ISO and noise.

I remembered I had a nice photo which was sitting somewhere on my hard drive. It was in the time I only had a Canon Powershot digital compact camera. In fact it was my first digital camera. It brings back good memories. HSoS ;-)

As I was lining this shot up, the girl saw me and tried to get out of the frame, she kinda slid down to where she is, then realised she couldnt escape and turned on a smile. All in half a second.

this image from a wholesale vegetables market

wholesale vegetable market

At 'Tonic & Ginger', Fremantle, WA, Australia

Traveling for work ... jumping on here to share this delishitude, which I inhaled yesterday. For Madeleine who loves this stuff at Legals. (It's vegan!)

Patuxent Visitor Center, MD

on a plate of diced red and green peppers and tomato is a small cauliflower drizzled with cheese, turmeric and parsley sauce, topped with chopped nuts and to the side is a serving of plum butter

small cauliflower cooked slowly in a pan of water with the lid on, a low heat throughout to keep its shape (from the market £1)

peppers and tomato were cooked on high in the microwave

plum butter www.daringgourmet.com/plum-butter-pflaumenmus/

cheese sauce with added turmeric and parsley www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cheese-sauce

7 days 30 different plant based foods flic.kr/p/2pDzPii

just one thing with michael mosley

food special with professor tim spector

7 days 30 different plant based foods

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ngjx

ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...

i've created a new group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...

HMM!

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chicken topped with plum butter alongside pasta mixed with cauliflower florets and onion flavoured with lemon, sprinkled with chilli powder, topped with raspberry chia sauce

chicken cooked in the pressure cooker flic.kr/p/2kNjRwo

pasta precooked

plum butter flic.kr/p/2kNwSa4

ghee flic.kr/p/2kGBxt9

raspberry chia sauce flic.kr/p/2k6bV1K

how to make jam/sauce with any fruit using chia seeds

(scroll down to the bottom of the link to view the recipe) www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-easy-chia-jam-with-any-frui...

ps i'm not recommending any of these cookery adventures. they suit my personal taste. photographing to encourage myself to eat more healthily ...

i've created a new group www.flickr.com/groups/cooking_is_my_hobby/ to gather ideas and encourage myself to continue with healthy eating by learning from others if you're interested in cooking, sometimes or a lot, or enjoy the cooking of others, you're always welcome ...

I decided to make some Cauliflower Steaks for dinner. I just love these. The recipe is so simple and they are so delicious.

Towering Cumulonimbus clouds illuminate the sky behind Tower Bridge. The storms were over East Kent.

Apparently edible....don't fancy it with my roast dinner though!!

Dupont Circle Farmers' Market

This is a picture of a Sparassis spathulata at Lake Waterford Park in Pasadena, Maryland.

Round Bay Quad

Wood Cauliflower (Sparassis crispa). Growing on an old conifer stump that is overgrown with heath bedstraw. Photographed in the former plantation at Oaks Piece, near Ughill, South Yorkshire.

Cox Peninsula Rd, southwest of Darwin

Raindrops on a cauliflower leaf.

Partially eaten up by the caterpillar bandits.

Here is a bookend to my lamb weekend. A lamb chop with grilled cauliflower. I have always been a fan of cauliflower, but this is the first time I tried it grilled. I picked up the idea from a NPR Food podcast I heard Friday morning. It wasn't too bad. A little olive oil, a little grill time and voila! Not as tender as I would have liked, but pretty good. Next time I will leave it on a little longer and possibly move it to indirect.

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123 Pictures in 2023 - 111 Vegetables

I thought it unusual to see a purple and yellow cauliflower ... and yes, it was a fresh cauliflower and not an old white one.

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Congratulations! You're not perfect! It's ridiculous to want to be perfect anyway. But then, everybody's ridiculous sometimes, except perfect people. You know what perfect is? Perfect is not eating or drinking or talking or moving a muscle or making even the teensiest mistake. Perfect is never doing anything wrong - which means never doing anything at all. Perfect is boring! So you're not perfect! Wonderful! Have fun! Eat things that give you bad breath! Trip over your own shoelaces! Laugh! Let somebody else laugh at you! Perfect people never do any of those things. All they do is sit around and sip weak tea and think about how perfect they are. But they're really not one-hundred-percent perfect anyway. You should see them when they get the hiccups! Phooey! Who needs 'em? You can drink pickle juice and imitate gorillas and do silly dances and sing stupid songs and wear funny hats and be as imperfect as you please and still be a good person. Good people are hard to find nowadays. And they're a lot more fun than perfect people any day of the week.

~Stephen Manes, Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days!

This was taken at the Croton Dam in New York

Purple cauliflower is not dyed. Its signature color comes from the same antioxidant found in red cabbage and red wine: anthocyanin.