At our house, children eat cauliflower like it is some kind of tasty snack food. I'm not even kidding. I think DS would name it as his favorite veggie. Many of us are not so lucky. I admit, it took me until I was about 32 to even consider enjoying serving it to myself. It looks like brains, and it tastes vaguely like broccoli, but not enough so. It's just weird. I do like it now, but, goodness, what a long road for cauliflower and I to become friends!
And, on an heretofore unrelated note, we also like green smoothies. Yummy, and a pleasing color that is referred to in my house as "monster." (See last post for a quick recipe for my fave green monster smoothie.) They are good. But they are green. Not that I don't like green, because I do. But there are only a select number of things that you can put in a green smoothie that won't turn it an unappetizing shade of purplish-brown. Kind of like when you make a smoothie with roasted beets and then you have to make it berry flavor because it is a crazy, crazy color of red. You are locked in.
And when your 5-year-old specifically asks for a mango smoothie, you can't hand her a green one and expect her to be satisfied. "But mangoes are orange, Mommy!" And not as orange as carrots, either, because I've tried to put those in there, and, although said 5-year-old admits it is delicious, it is still not a mango smoothie. It is a mango AND CARROT smoothie.
Then it hit me, somewhere in between sleep and wakefulness as my alarm clock was about 5 minutes from sounding and I was trying to figure out what we had in the house for breakfast: all the bags of frozen cauliflower!!!! Like a blank smoothie canvas, awaiting a veritable rainbow of fruits to blend with and make... MAGIC!
Orange and White Smoothie - serves 2
Combine in a blender:
1 medium banana
Juice of 2 oranges
1 c. coconut milk
1 heaping cup frozen cauliflower florets
1 heaping cup frozen mango chunks
Enjoy!
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