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Comfort Food after the Storm
January 5, 2008 by shankari
Filed under Vegetarian Sides
After one day of huddling in bed under a warm comforter, it was time for some comfort food. What is better than piping hot rasam with rice, romanesca (cauliflower) fry, radish salad,dried chillis and vadagam.
We saw this beautiful vegetable at the co-op and R decided to buy it immediately for the love of taking pictures. The grocer told us it was called Romanesca.I just baked it with potatoes and onion after marinating it in some spices.
I thought the Romaesca taste a lot like cauliflower. The grocer told us that it was a cross between cauliflower and brocolli.
Why the huddling?;-) Were u guys sick?
I’ve never seen that vegetable before! It’s too beautiful to eat!
What does it taste like? broccoli? cauliflower?
wow! The Romanesca looks very different and terrific. I have never seen this kind of vegetable before. Next time I go to the farm market I shall keep an eye out for it. Thanks for the nice picture.
Wow, that is one of the prettiest veggies I’ve ever seen!
romanesca sounds so much nicer than either cauliflower or broccoli.
oh ya!I second all the above comments!..
What an ARTFUL PIECE of veggie!!:)..
Lovely food on the plate too
The vegetable looks as if carved out from an ancient sculpture
Nice plate with mouth watering food. Back in India I used to have a similar plate for lunch..
The vegetable looks different , but where is the recipe?///
I saw some absolutely amazing pics of this veggie on a mathematicians site on the web last year – led to it from Tea and Cookies (if I remember right) – what a stunner this veggie is!
i bought romanesca a month back at my veggie store..but i did not know it’s name. I picked it up coz it looked different! personally i thought it tasted more like brocolli :0)
What a lovely thali. And the Romanesca looks so beautiful. Looked like coral to me.
Wow! Lovely veggie with a lovely name. My supermarket has a mundane name of broccauliflower for this one! Romanesca sounds so romantic!!:-)
I saw those French Cauliflower thing too, didn’t buy it though. Thali looks so delicious and I love the Thali itself too!
Happy Monday sweetie!:))
That’s a comforting thali indeed. Thanks for introducing me to Romanesca!
what a beautiful looking vegetable nice one shankari
Yet another vegetable to try. Thanks for the tip, Shankari.
Happy New Year, Shankari!
Never seen this veggie before…. looks lovely with those beautiful designs on it… i always love full meals over a plantain leaf.Gr8 spread…
Hey, I like that thali (don’t know if I spelt it correctly) Yours has more compartments
Of course, the food is enticing.
That veggie looks so beautiful..like a piece of art:)
Hi Shankari,
In singapore they call it as Broco Flower. We will get this during chineese new year time (around jan and feb).
Kurma tastes great with this vegetables.
i can give anything for that plate of food shankari:)
Romanesca … such a pretty name! And it looks like a model vegetable
You should change the title of this post to ‘comfort feast after the storm’. Although it’s rasam and veggies there is nothing to beat this great meal.
About the Romaesca…. I have seen this before. But the shop-keeper said that the name was broccoflower. Maybe he invented his own name.