Can we talk for a minute about "Cauliflower Rice"

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I don't think there's anything normal about wanting to pretend something isn't what it is, but hey that's just me.
I like rice and call it rice.
I like cauliflower and call it cauliflower.
I haven't tried to create a dish from cauliflower in very small bits, but it sounds delicious. I definitely don't get why this would be called cauliflower rice, since there's no rice in it, so boring me would still call it cauliflower.

People do this all the time. I think it is very "normal" to eat foods that you like and to want to try them in new and interesting ways.

And "ricing" is a method of cutting food. You can "rice" a lot of things.

I assume it's "riced cauliflower" then, not "cauliflower rice"? The former tells us how the cauliflower was prepared, whereas the latter implies a substitution of sort. "Riced cauliflower" sounds delicious, "cauliflower rice" sounds meh.

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This whole thread is fantastic.

I don't think there's anything normal about wanting to pretend something isn't what it is, but hey that's just me.
I like rice and call it rice.
I like cauliflower and call it cauliflower.
I haven't tried to create a dish from cauliflower in very small bits, but it sounds delicious. I definitely don't get why this would be called cauliflower rice, since there's no rice in it, so boring me would still call it cauliflower.

Do you know what the verb is for chopping a vegetable or other food into small bits?

mince

lol. Riced.

eww, now I'm thinking of minced meat pies. BLECH.

mince: a. To cut or chop into very small pieces. b. To subdivide into minute parts. :laugh: :flowerforyou:

Never tried minced meat pie, but from your reaction... I think I shan't.

It's also called RICING. :flowerforyou:
verb (used with object), riced, ric·ing.
3.
to reduce to a form resembling rice: to rice potatoes.


Minced meat pie is vile (in my humble opinion).:happy:

Blows my mind how people seem to care so much what other people call their food. I can only assume these same people lose their composure when someone brings a fruit pizza to a party - unless it's made with marinara sauce and traditional pizza crust I suppose.

Fruit pizza??? If you were coming to my party and we're bringing fruit pizza I'd want to know in advance so I can de-friend you irl.

It's pretty tasty (at least the last time I had it, which was probably 10 years ago) but has nothing to do with pizza beyond a similar appearance (crust/icing/topping). I'll admit it doesn't scream par-tay though. More pot luck.

Lol, all these cauliflower "substitutes" are NOTHING like the real thing. Just call the **** cauliflower "bits" or "chunks". It's DEFINITELY not rice.
And rice ain't evil. Ask the millions of Asians that eat it every day and don't have weight issues.

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Interesting that you chose the asians and not...say... some other population that eats rice frequently.

Mostly because that the Asian population is 1/3 of the world population and that's a lot of ****ing rice. Who's the next ethnic population that eats a lot of rice daily? Probably people of Spanish decent (Latin America, Mexico, etc.). I wasn't discriminating, I was going by sheer volume of people.

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Trust that I'm not fretting or staying up a night worrying about what people call their food. Personally I find it humorous.

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So much this! The things the people say in these forums are fodder for all sorts of laughter and conversation. Cauliflower is different though. It is less humorous and more like....




Because cauliflower.

Blows my mind how people seem to care so much what other people call their food. I can only assume these same people lose their composure when someone brings a fruit pizza to a party - unless it's made with marinara sauce and traditional pizza crust I suppose.

Fruit pizza??? If you were coming to my party and we're bringing fruit pizza I'd want to know in advance so I can de-friend you irl.

No way! (Unless it's one of those parties where no one is eating anything, and those have their place. )

Sugar cookie crust topped with sweetened cream cheese and then slices of fresh fruit, with an apple jelly glaze on top to seal the deal. It's heaven. Some people use refrigerated cookie dough, but I like to make it from scratch. There are very few desserts made with fruit that taste better.

Perhaps he's thinking of a tomato-based variant.

For cauliflower lovers:

http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/parmesan_cauliflower_tater_tots.html

They are pretty stinking good.

I like cauliflower mashed with sour cream and cream cheese. But it is NOT mashed potato. It is mashed cauliflower. I don't get why people need to pretend it's something that it isn't?

Riced cauliflower is pretty good. And yes, calling it "riced" is perfectly acceptable unless you are being a pretentious *kitten* on the internet.

Still isn't a pizza crust.

Riced cauliflower is pretty good. And yes, calling it "riced" is perfectly acceptable unless you are being a pretentious *kitten* on the internet.

Still isn't a pizza crust.

it makes a good base for pizza ingredients. :-)

Riced cauliflower is pretty good. And yes, calling it "riced" is perfectly acceptable unless you are being a pretentious *kitten* on the internet.

Still isn't a pizza crust.

it makes a good base for pizza ingredients. :-)

I gave it an honest try and hated it. Turned out spongy and broke apart. Don't get me wrong, the flavors were good, but I had to eat it with a fork. I tried 4 times.

Riced cauliflower is pretty good. And yes, calling it "riced" is perfectly acceptable unless you are being a pretentious *kitten* on the internet.

Still isn't a pizza crust.

it makes a good base for pizza ingredients. :-)

I gave it an honest try and hated it. Turned out spongy and broke apart. Don't get me wrong, the flavors were good, but I had to eat it with a fork. I tried 4 times.

we eat it often. We bake it on the pizza stone and it turns out well.

Funny thread!

I'm sorry guys but I have a confession. I've tried the cauli pizza base (it was crappy, same cals as normal because of higher fat content), cauli rice (did this the other day fried rice style with curry and cumin and that was delicious!) and cauli bread. Savoury bread that was ok but tasted a lot better with big slabs of peanut butter.

I do like to experiment in the kitchen though. Partly because I am a volume eater and the fibrous veggie concoctions mean I can still eat massive meals for low calories. Doesn't mean you have to switch from the "normal" version of foods to the lower cal option all the time though. I still eat plenty of normal rice and pizza but just depends on the current goals.