Spectacular among vegetables, this regal cauliflower:
Photographed at the Lenox Farmer’s Market. (But after being cooked, it simply tasted like any cauliflower, white, yellow or purple.)
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What a beautiful shade of purple – it certainly stands out!
It absolutely does, Barb —
but you don’t get to see the purple cauliflowers very often. The white ones must shoulder them aside.
😉
Do the purple ones grow that way naturally?
Yes, they do! Like the purple potatoes do —
See Pauline’s comment for the more scientific explanation 🙂
Purple cauliflower’s color is due to the antioxidant anthocyanin, which is also found in red cabbage and red wine. Who knew? With a side of purple potatoes and a Cherokee purple tomato, you could have a monochromatic plate and still eat healthy!
Who knew, indeed! Only you would even think to wonder!!!!!! And then find out —
Cyan is the blue of the ink in the ink cartridges, isn’t it?
These colors look more delicious, even if it doesn’t change to taste. Not one of my favorite foods, but if you mash them with cream cheese – well, how bad is anything with cream cheese?
Mash them with potatoes, Gemma. Then add the usual suspects (milk or cream and butter, but you need less of each) and you have a DELISH side veggie.
How bad is anything with potatoes? (I think in another life I was Irish.)
You say potatoe, I say delicious! 🙂
Yeah — let’s go for it.
YUM.
Stunning colour! I love to eat them too!
Me too! Makes us two purple — not people-eaters — two purple cauli-eaters!
It looks like cauliflower from Oz!
You’re right, it does look kinda other-worldly!
(“Pay no attention to that purple cauliflower behind the curtain —“)
Excellent shot and point of view!!!
Thanks so much for the visit and comment, Cee!
It may taste like “any other” cauliflower, but a standard issue it is not. Beautiful!
Standard? No. Rare? Yes. I haven’t seen one in ages! If I do, I’ll buy it like a shot, pose it, shoot it, cook it, and then taste it — VERY CAREFULLY!
love cauliflower and that purple is gorgeous, just gorgeous.
It really really is gorgeous, hard to connect with a vegetable usually construed as stodgy!
Great shot. I have never ever seen a cauliflower in purple. Thanks for sharing it.
It’s been a long long time since I’ve seen one, Arindam. Almost too beautiful to cook!
Thanks so much for coming by —
I have never seen a cauliflower like that before!
If they ever come to a market near you, grab your camera and post ’em on your blog, Ioanna!
(Then you can eat them, of course. 😉
What a glorious shade of purple! I’ve never seen a purple cauliflower before and would definitely love to try it one day. I’m sure it would add such wonderful color to any meal.
It’s been so long since I had one I forget how much it fades in cooking. It does, you know —
What it really does is make a fabulous table decoration until it ages and is ready for the pot.