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We're partial to a bit of it in our house but the local supermarket hasn't had one in for weeks and, given the current state of the pandemic, I'm not about to venture elsewhere.
Is this happening country wide or is it specific to Tesco in Prestwich?
Rats, I'm still trying to perfect my buffalo cauliflower recipe...
Saw them for sale on my local fruit and veg stall yesterday.
Good for cauliflower here in Northampton but leeks were in short supply recently.
leeks were in short supply recently.
Yep, Tesco here (South Queensferry, just outside Edinburgh) has been short on Leeks, until I found a massive box of Organic Leeks in another aisle. Are organic leeks grown here but non-organic elsewhere? I didn't think to check.
Are organic leeks grown here but non-organic elsewhere? I didn’t think to check.
Canny see it, we used to get an organic veg box from a local 'grower', but when you looked at the details, the apples were about the only thing grown in the UK, so I stopped the order.
We be needin this buffalo cauli recipe!
No cauliflowers in Sainsburys here.
It has become a household favourite recently. Been buying the organic ones and we all commented how tasty it was, just steamed. Needing some kid friendly recipes for a bit more adventure.
The Thug Kitchen cauliflower pasta sauce recipe is great. Really simple to do too.
Leeks are the easiest thing to grow. We have a whole veg patch full of them. I might pick a few and put them on the classifieds.
My local Lidl in Dorset had them on Friday though not the best quality or very big. TBH good quality Cauli's have been difficult since beginning of Lockdown #1 IME.
My local tesco in the SW has had cauliflower and leeks each week so far this year, I did notice they now sell suede's sourced from a local farm though.
This week for the first time I noticed different coloured broccoli's, purple or orange where the options!
Needing some kid friendly recipes for a bit more adventure.
Cut the cauli into florets. Place on a baking tray drizzle olive oil season and sprinkle parmesan on top. Bake @ 200 deg C for 30 mins. Nom.
Broccoli and cauliflower gratin, yum! Oh and Aloo Gobi!
We be needin this buffalo cauli recipe!
This is the only recipe I've followed so far. It's nowhere near as good as the Buffalo Cauliflower I had in Orocco Pier in S.Queensferry though, I think it's too thick and gloopy.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/buffalo-cauliflower
Why the **** are we importing cauliflowers?! You can grow them in the UK most of the year.
Speaking of which - get them in the ground next month (now if you've got a greenhouse!) Don't be beholden to Big Cauliflower 🤣
(no supply problems here btw, but we do have the UK's biggest greenhouse just down the road!!)
Not had an issue with cauli, but Tesco hasn't had much broccoli over the last few weeks.
Leeks are the easiest thing to grow. We have a whole veg patch full of them. I might pick a few and put them on the classifieds.
Brexit success story right there. If only more people had that sort of "can do" attitude eh?
Not a cauliflower fan at all but had Cauliflower 65 in a little place in Tooting; omg!
https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/gobi-65-recipe-baked-grilled-version-step-by-step/
I think we must have been eating them all.
Cauliflower and sweet potato curry.
Fry some onion, red pepper, mushrooms gently. Half a jar of Tesco Thai Green Curry paste, most of a tin of coconut milk, throw in chunks of sweet potato and florets of cauli. Half an hour bubbling away and serve it with your protein of choice. For us it's usually BBQ pork chops and a naan or similar bread.
Whenever I think of them though I always have a vivid memory of my Nana in about 1963 coming back from the shop exclaiming "'Alf a crown for a cauli! Never gerrin one er them agin!"
If everybody has stuck to just putting cheese on them, instead of this fancy foreign rubbish we wouldn't be in this mess we are now.
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I did notice they now sell suede’s sourced from a local farm though.
I think you mean swedes. Suede was what Elvis's blue shoes were made of. Although I guess the local farm could be a cattle ranch.
most of a tin of coconut milk
Yeah, don't put the whole tin in whatever you do, it'd totally ruin it.
Market had 'em yesterday. No beetroot, white or red cabbage though, but quite often they don't have hose or maybe it's the wrong season? (They did have strawberries though!!!!)
More alarmingly there seems to be a shortage of brufen, and as my wife suffers from chronic knee pain this is becoming an issue.
Cut the cauli into florets. Place on a baking tray drizzle olive oil season and sprinkle parmesan on top. Bake @ 200 deg C for 30 mins. Nom.
+1 roasted florets. Combined with cubed roast spuds, cumin seeds, caraway seeds, ginger, crushed garlic, (add spuds to roasting tray before cauli as they take longer)
Once roasted then add the whole lovely lot to a homemade Brindian korma sauce. OM!
https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2020/05/01/chicken-korma/
Picked up a lovely Spanish purple cauliflower in Tesco the other day. They had normal ones too.
Our local greengrocer had Romanesque Cauliflowers in last week. Yum!
Local greengrocer has coulis. A bit spendy at the moment though.
If you chop them up small you'll find they'll fit in the bin easier. And if you have to smother one with lots of strong flavours, do you really like cauliflower?
I'm struggling to get decent brocoli though.
. Are organic leeks grown here but non-organic elsewhere? I didn’t think to check.
Possibly. They are likely to be packaged differently. Drives me potty buying fruit, trying to do the right thing, so lose non organic or organic in a plastic bag it really doesn't need? Local greengrocer can do it properly, come on Tesco, you are getting less and less of my custom
Aldi has them in Bury @harry_the_spider so it's a fair bet they'll have them in Whitefield too.
Local greengrocer has coulis.
To pour over your cauliflower?
This week's cauliflower arrived with (as our sprogs call him) Mr Teskimo.
I shall be making cauliflower cheese pasta bake later. Boil the cauli and pasta tubes, make some proper cheese sauce from scratch while that's going, then bake the lot for about a half hour. Nom.. Add bacon if you like.
Local greengrocer has coulis.
To pour over your cauliflower?
Ah well spotted. I am of course blaming spell check.
If everybody has stuck to just putting cheese on them, instead of this fancy foreign rubbish we wouldn’t be in this mess we are now.
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Genuine LOL at that one, thanks
Fine here in Doha, but then they come from Iran not Lincolnshire!