The matter of cauliflower
The few times we've prepared cauliflower for something it's been in the borderlands between bland and gross. The times I remember enjoying cauliflower have been with broccoli and cheese and, at least once in minestrone. Anyone have any suggestions for preparing cauliflower that takes best advantage of it's flavor?
I have a few ideas. Cauliflower seems like it should be good with the same kinds of things potatoes are good with: broccoli, butter, & bacon bits! with chives? Perhaps it could be prepared in someway like hashbrowns, dowsed with pepper and ketchup and served with eggs and toast? Might it be roasted with garlic? Go with the bland and make cauliflower leek soup? With mushrooms?
Venturing beyond, what do you make of these?
I can't think of a food that I wouldn't eat under Thai yellow curry.
Likewise, cauliflower and veggies on jasmine rice, with an korma sauce, Indian style.
Cauliflower, garlic, olive oil & balsamic, dusted with cumin and wrapped in a grape leaf.
Cauliflower, tahini, paprika and red pepper flakes, on a pita, side of tabouli, kibbe.
Cauliflower and that butter and brown sugar sauce some Italian places put on squash.