I've heard so much about how you can make mashed potatoes out of cauliflower. They say you just cook it and mash it and put in butter and milk like you would potatoes and you would never be able to tell the difference. They say this because it's "so much healthier" and has way less calories. Well, I think these people who say this are so used to diet food that they don't remember what real mashed potatoes taste like! I think they are only used to potato flakes or potato pearls or maybe they don't have a very discerning palet. I am a big potato fan and I HATE flakes and, although I think the pearls are better, they definitely taste like food storage.
So I tried the cauliflower-mashed-potatoes. And you know what? Nothing could mask the taste of cauliflower! First of all, even though I cooked it till it was gooshy, it still took a lot of beating in the food processor to make it purreed, and it certainly wasn't fluffy like mashed potatoes are supposed to be; because I added butter and a little milk to it, it became soupy and grainy. It felt like purreed cauliflower and tasted like cauliflower with butter.
Nothing against cauliflower -- I love cauliflower -- but if I wanted cauliflower, I would have cut it into chunks and sprinkled cheese on it. I wouldn't have turned it into baby food which, by the way, my baby hated -- but he loves mashed potatoes!
So I still say mashed potatoes are only worth eating if you make them with real potatoes!
And another thing -- don't mess with white bread. All the health nuts are trying to impose whole grain on my delicious processed fluffy white bread. Now I agree that wheat bread is much more nutritious and tastes like heaven -- if you ground your own wheat and made it like Mom did when we were kids. But the stores can't produce that homemade wheat bread. So they should stop trying. When people buy junk food, they want it to satisfy their sweet tooth; when I buy white bread, I want it to taste like white bread! I don't want my food to taste like vitamins!
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