This amazing vegetable is a Romanesco cauliflower which we got from our CSA. I had never seen one before. The chartreuse color and the strange fractal quality of the flowerets is just beautiful. Wikipedia says that the branched meristems make up a logarithmic spiral. Also that the number of spirals on each head is a Fibonacci number. It is one of the mathematical wonders of the vegetable world.
We are having it for dinner, boiled whole, with cheese sauce and ham and boiled potatoes. I tried and tried to find a recipe that left it whole but most of them break it up like an ordinary cauliflower. That's tragic, in my opinion.
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And how did it taste? (Andrew asks)...
Just like cauliflower!
I've got a couple recipes that at least let you slice it and roast it, "like steaks" (see The Kitchn, I think).
I've seen Romanescu in photos before, but never in person. Very cool.
And it would be delicious with a cheese sauce, of course.
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