Any regular reader of this blog knows that I have a love affair going with cauliflower. When I saw a recipe for cauliflower waffles (of my goodness, how can you ever turn down a waffle?!), I had to try it. It looked amazing We were leaving the next day for a trip to Europe, but that didn’t discourage me. I was that curious (and can you say probably misguided), I needed to make them the evening before I left.
I have made waffles in the past, delicious sourdough waffles. And I enjoy the savoy type of waffle rather than the sweet ones. This recipe was full of cheese and herbs, a perfect base for summer vegetables.
I’m not a novice for substituting cauliflower in recipes to reduce the carbohydrates. Cauliflower pizza or flatbread, stir fried riced cauliflower, and mashed cauliflower (as a substitute for potatoes) are favorites at our house. I had no reason to think this would be any different.
Well, not so good.
Failure 2
Ok, I would say needs further practice and work.
If any of you are successful in making these, please let me know what I did wrong. The original post looks wonderful. It didn’t say how long they cooked the waffle, or if you needed to grease the waffle maker (my own is non-stick and doesn’t usually need extra oil).
The waffle spirit was not with me.
The compost pile was very happy.
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Uh oh. I’d “stick” with regular waffles….
That’s my conclusion as well. It was worth a try though.
It’s always worth a try! I bet the pieces still tasted good didn’t they?
How did you guess!? The crumbles did taste good as I had to pry the pieces out from between the prongs of my “nonstick” waffle maker.
I can easily imagine they’d be good!!
I’ve seen waffles made out of potatoes but never cauliflower. I love the idea of this, wonder what went wrong, gave me an idea to try my cauliflower pizza crust in the waffle maker minus the cheese maybe. Hmmm I think it’s a great idea.
Keep me informed as I will try again when we get back. I’d love to hear if you are successful.
Cauliflower waffles sound just delicious! And things like this is always how we learn… 🙂 The original recipe seemed to contain a lot of cheese, which might have something to do with the stickiness? Suzanne’s idea of using cauliflower pizza crust in a waffle iron might hold up!
I know it’s awful to say this – but sometimes there nothing more fun than a spectacular food failure post. We all know how it feels…. 😉
This made me laugh Liz as I too have been experimenting so much with cauliflower – good on you for sharing with your followers how not everything turns out rosy in the kitchen!
Hmmmm, cauliflower waffles, huh. I had not heard of those, but love cauliflower. Incidentally, did you see the cauliflower pizza base that Jenni Field post recently?
I have a post with a wonderful cauliflower pizza crust, it is what gave me hope about the waffles. I have some dead for next time.
Hope you’re having a lovely trip – how could you not be, lol!! Sorry about the waffles 0 it sounds like something I would have loved to try.