Side Dishes & Sauces

Homemade Scrummy Baked Beans

imageThis recipe is inspired by NZ’s The Food Truck TV series, with some serious Beauty Foodie adaptations. Now, it’s important to note that, I’d only eat regular baked beans if there’d been a natural disaster  and we were forced to devour the food stuffs in our Household Emergency Survival Kit. These babies, on the other hand, are utterly yummo and made me do a complete 180 on my perspective on baked beans. Give this a whirl for Sunday brunch  it makes for great tucker (damn good hangover food in my case!) (more…)

Cauliflower Puree

cauliflower puree recipeIt’s not terribly interesting looking in the picture, but I PROMISE, it’s delicious.   Until my Hubby tasted my Cauliflower Puree he reckoned the only way to eat cauliflower was smothered in a cheese sauce to disguise the taste. He’s changed his opinion since I made this – he loves it.   You can also use this recipe to make cauliflower mash (keep reading!)

You can serve this as a side dish, in the place of cheese sauce, or simply wherever you’d usually use mashed potato. This is also fabulous over pasta with bacon and  mushrooms (a great alternative to a more calorie-laden cream-based sauce).  Hmmmmm. I mix this in with macaroni and call it Mac n’ Cheese for my vegetable-hating-son. He scoffs it, blissfully unaware that he is eating cauliflower. Gotcha.

(TIP:  You can make this ahead of time, just restrain yourself from eating at least a quarter of it before serving time…  It’s addictive. You’ve been warned!). (more…)