Roasted Garlic and Cauliflower Pizza – pizza with a roasted garlic ricotta sauce and topped with cauliflower, tomatoes, and fresh basil! Perfect meatless option for pizza night!
Hi guys, I’m obsessed with cauliflower and I’ll talk about it more in an upcoming post because it’s, like, a thing in my life right now.
A real thing.
Like, we ordered fried cauliflower at Megg’s the other day because I couldn’t resist.
So naturally I had to put it on pizza.
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Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower Soup – creamy potato and cauliflower soup with bacon, cheddar cheese, and green onions. A lightened up version of baked potato soup!
Hi guys, I don’t usually post on the weekends but I’ve been holding onto the photos for this Loaded Baked Potato and Cauliflower Soup for weeks now and wanted to get it post while the weather is terrible and we’re all freezing.
I had plans today, got all the kids in the car, and then immediately drove home after putting gas in the car because I literally couldn’t.
Too cold for me.
Everyone keeps saying, “Amanda, it’s February, of course it’s cold” but y’all, last February I was wearing sleeveless dresses in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and not complaining about it being too cold to have a Jeep.
Summer needs to hurry.
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You guys.
I’m obsessed with cauliflower again.
I’ve had it everyday for, like, a month straight.
For breakfast.
I know.
I swear it’s amazing though! I do some riced cauliflower with some riced sweet potato with diced turkey bacon and a fried egg. And then just a tiny bit of maple syrup and a giant drizzle of sriracha on top. Sounds weird, but just trust me.
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This post sponsored by Green Giant. All opinions are my own.
Cauliflower Tots Shepherd’s Pie – a healthier twist on shepherd’s pie! Ground turkey and veggies in gravy with cauliflower tots on top!
I feel like every year around this time, my house gets super busy. It’s like, January hits and all of the sudden all my kids have a million activities and it’s made worse this year because I have a forever long list of things I want to do here before we move. So we are never home anymore.
I mean, it’s great and fun and all but it means we’re rushing to eat dinner, do baths, finish homework all in, like, an hour before bedtime. It’s not always easy to cook something healthy in that time so I wanted to share a delicious and healthy shortcut I’ve discovered.
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Loaded Cauliflower Mac and Cheese – cauliflower tossed in a delicious paleo cheese sauce and topped with bacon. Get your mac and cheese fix without the guilt!
Heeeey guys! Happy Monday!
How was the weekend?
I discovered that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is now on Netflix and umm, it changed my life. You guys. No one told me that it’s a musical series.
A musical!
Anyway, it’s really good and I’m not gonna tell you how many episodes I watched while I was catching up on some work that I’m waaaay behind on.
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Cheesy Pasta with Roasted Cauliflower – pasta with cauliflower, kale, Parmesan, ricotta, and lemon zest! Light and fresh – perfect for meatless Monday!
This is the first of two meatless recipes this week. Things are getting weird.
So how was your weekend? Hopefully fabulous! I stupidly scheduled a vet appointment for Clementine at 7:15 yesterday morning. It’s never a good idea to make an appointment that early on a Sunday. Good news though, we only have this week and then it’s SPRING BREAK. And then the kids may or may not go back to school after that. Still waiting for papers to be signed so we know which day we can get the heck out of here.
Yesterday I also officially started cleaning out the house. It’s amazing how much stuff you accumulate over the years. I found one of those cell phones with the pull out keyboard in our junk drawer – like, how old is that?! Why do we still have it?!
I spent a good portion of the day just filling bags with stuff to either throw away or donate. I’m starting to panic because it just seems like so. much. stuff. and it’s stuff that we’ve just shoved into closets or drawers because we don’t even use it. I need it all out of here!
Aaaaand I started listening to The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up while I cleaned. Mostly because I’ve heard that the author talks about your socks needing a vacation. My socks and I are pretty excited to hear all about that.
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Paleo Shrimp and Grits is a healthy and low carb way to enjoy shrimp and grits! Lemony shrimp on top of creamy cauliflower grits. The best heathy comfort food!
Happy Sunday! I hope your weekend has been fabulous.
The kids and the husband all have a 4-day and it’s been a relaxing and productive weekend.
I’ve been without a lightbulb in the kitchen since at least October (my anxiety strikes at weird times) and husband finally had time to run to Home Depot and get it fixed.
So hooray, I can Instagram my nightime baking now!
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I don’t know if I’ve ever told you guys but I really don’t like rice. I don’t dislike rice but it’s not something I’d choose to eat. The exception being Mexican restaurant rice and even then, I mix it into the refried beans because… that’s just the way it should be done.
Oh, and any kind of casserole that includes rice, cream of- soup, and tons of cheese.
But, like, plain rice? Nope. I don’t even like the cilantro-lime rice at those burrito joints (that this recipe is based on) unless it’s absolutely covered in salsa (and queso if we’re at Qdoba).
Weirdly enough, I really dig cauliflower rice. It’s the perfect substitute for those of use that either don’t like rice or maybe we’re trying to cut back on calories. But yeah, I eat cauliflower rice with everything. At one point, before my husband deployed, he had to tell me to cool it with the cauliflower rice because he was sick of it.
So naturally I switched to mashed cauliflower and he was not amused.
Since I’m currently going through one of my Mexican food phases, this Cilantro-Lime Cauliflower Rice has become a staple in my diet. It’s really good and the perfect side dish for all the stuff I’m currently coating in cumin, dousing in lime juice, and covering in jalapenos.
Quick warning: if you don’t like cauliflower, you won’t like this. No amount of lime zest and cilantro can hide the taste (and smell) of cauliflower. If you do like cauliflower, you will looove it!
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I have been hesitant to jump on the cauliflower pizza crust train for a number of reasons.
Number one: Cauliflower? Pizza? No.
Number two: Most of the time, the crust of the pizza is more important than the toppings to me. Why would I want to give up my favorite part of the pizza?!
But my kids were begging for pizza Friday night and knowing that Mother’s Day was only days away and I consider eating lots of carbs essential on Mother’s Day, I needed to find a way to have pizza night with the kids without overdoing it.
So I tried the cauliflower crust.
Aaaaand… I loved it.
I’ve kind of heard mixed reviews. It seems like for every person that’s talking about how amazing it is, there’s someone saying that it’s mushy and you can’t slice it.
But I thought it worked perfectly.
Did it taste like pizza crust? No, of course not. And if someone tells you that it does, they are filthy liars.
It tastes like cauliflower but I feel like cauliflower kind of tastes like nothing so… it worked. I’m planning on making it again this weekend!
I’m sure I’ve told you guys many times that I prefer veggies to fruit. I eat a lot of veggies but the problem is that I don’t eat a huge variety of them. I buy huge bags of spinach, carrots, and frozen broccoli each week because I know those will never go to waste but I very rarely buy anything else. I just never know what to do with most veggies so I’ll buy squash, for example, and then it will sit in my fridge for 2 weeks before I finally toss it.
Well I’m trying to change my ways. I bought some cauliflower and made this Marinated Cauliflower Salad thinking that it would be nice to have a cold salad ready to go in the fridge. That way I could throw it on top of some spinach or make it a side dish for dinner without having to fuss with it. And it was perfect for that! I even tossed a couple spoonfuls of it into an omelet one day when I was too lazy to defrost broccoli – it was delicious!
This would be perfect to take to a cookout as a healthier alternative to potato or pasta salad!
One year ago: Baked French Toast with Pralines
