Sunday, December 30, 2012

Vegetarian Entre

This is a great vegetarian dish that doesn't call for 16 ingredients, take all day to fix, and leave you with a pile of dishes.  It's a roasted garlic/cauliflower/pasta dish with pepper flakes, lemon juice and lots of Parmesan cheese.  You roast two bulbs of garlic in a hot hot (500 degrees oven)  in foil, then remove the garlic and roast the cauliflower, coated with olive oil and cut into 1/8ths in the same pan in the same 500 degree oven.  
Meanwhile you have toasted 1/4-1/3 cup walnuts. Chop after they cool.  Cook the pasta, make sauce of the garlic, lemon juice and hot pepper flakes and mix everything together and add plenty of Parmesan and serve with more Parmesan. Garnish with walnuts.
 I'm making a salad with iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes and avocado to add some green to the menu.  Sounds good, doesn't it?   Avocados on sale lately.  Good healthy oils for you in the winter.  

We had tacos last night with all the trimmings:  bean/pepper/onion for the vegetarian guest and ours likewise, but with some sauteed and cut up tri-tip steak.  I serve lightly sauteed corn tortillas, salsa, sour cream, grated cheddar, lettuce, tomato, avocado, scallions and cilantro to make as we like.  And we sure as hell like. 

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