Colorful Cauliflowers - Have you seen them? - Erin

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Ah, see, bump both those prices by another $1 yet

and you've got the situation in New Hampshire.

 

I believe I have also had the purple ones, but just

to try. I eat red cabbage daily, so I figure I get

my anthocyanin that way and don't need to pay the

extra. The standard variety also features daily.

 

The local farmers market here has a purple string

bean that was supposedly invented here by a professor

at the university so his wife could spot them in the

garden more easily when weeding. They cook up green

though. Bummer. And are not as crispy as the green

ones. (I wonder why that seems to be a common

attribute across all these more colorful varieties.)

 

 

-Erin

http://www.zenpawn.com/vegblog/vegan-done-light.html

 

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> After reading that link I sent, I wish I had bought the orange

one. It said it had 25 times the level of Vitamin A of white

varieties.

> I also wish I had bought the purple one. The purple color is

caused by the presence of the antioxidant group anthocyanin.

> I bought the green one because it was only $1.49/head where all the

others were $2.49/head, which still isn't a bad price for cauliflower.

>

> That site even mentioned that their is a yellow variety. I didn't

see that one, but this is so all so interesting the possiblities of

the higher nutrition and making a very interesting presentation of a

dish at a meal, with so many different colors of the same thing.

>

> I have not seen the multi-colored carrots. That sounds fasinating

that there is such a thing. I'd love to see that.

>

> I love buying bunches of swiss chard that the Red swiss chard, the

yellow swiss chard and the white swiss chard all together . They

aren't multicolor on the same plant, but they will put several stems

of each of them together in a bunch to sell and call it rainbow swiss

chard. Of course it is just the center stem that has these colors

and not the leaf. We love swiss chard. Just had some this

week......... Oh so good.

> Judy

> -

> Erin

>

> Saturday, June 23, 2007 5:39 AM

> Re: Colorful Cauliflowers - Have you

seen them?

>

>

> I have tried the orange ones and found them, in comparison to

> the standard white variety, to be 1) sweeter and 2) more tender.

> Pretty good and containing more beta-carotene by way of the

> orange pigmentation. At $1 more per head than the standard,

> and with plenty of carrots and winter squashes in my diet, I

> don't make them a regular purchase though. Have you seen also

> the multi-colored carrots (red, yellow, etc.)? They too strike

> me as being sweeter than your standard orange kind.

>

> Enjoy,

> -Erin

> http://www.zenpawn.com/vegblog/vegan-done-light.html

>

> , " wwjd " <jtwigg@> wrote:

> >

> > Last Sunday, we were in Atlanta, Ga at the Dekalb Farmers

Market

> and I saw

> > the most amazing thing. They had 4 different colors of

> Cauliflower. There

> > were Purple, Orange, Green and of course the White that all are

> familiar

> > with. This was my first time ever seeing these. Have you come

> across

> > them before? I bought a green one, but haven't cooked it yet.

> >

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflower Here is something I

> found on the

> > internet about these different colors. I thought I should have

> bought all

> > 3 and cooked them in seperate pots and then put them together

to

> serve. I

> > bet everyone would have really pondered over how I colored them

> like

> > that.......LOL

> >

> > Cooking is so fun,

> > Judy

>