food trends

A glutton for seeds. A healthy serving of pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, chia seeds..and now I wait to sprout.

Speaking of health food, cauliflower is all the rage.
I've nothing against cauliflower, in fact I rather like the white gigantic floret, but looking at how it's taken over the food world is a bit strange.
I'm sure it's a good bit of veg and all that, but look at the things people are making out of cauliflower.

Cauliflower rice, as in rice made of cauliflower. Shredded cauliflower to only give the appearance of rice, thus partaking in a bowl of rice (which is actually cauliflower) and feeling good about not eating any starchy rice. What?

Cauliflower pizza base. As in pizza base made out of shredded cauliflower held together with an egg. Umm.. ok. This is to pacify people who can't or won't eat gluten.
Right. I've actually had this pizza and no matter what anyone might say about how it's impossible to discern that it's not made of flour, it's pretty distinctively not made of flour. It just doesn't taste like pizza.

Baking a whole bloody head of cauliflower in the oven. Nothing wrong with it but imagine a big cauliflower baked into an oven, come out blistering crisp at the top and cloud white when you cut into it.
I rather like the idea of baking bite sized cauli florets.

But yeah, cauliflower—trending the food word, made fashionable to eat and serve.
I mean cauliflower just doesn't give off that edgy food aura somehow. It's so humble and serene and sort of bulky, big and much to meek a vegetable.