{"id":78,"date":"2009-01-27T22:55:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T05:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-01-27T22:55:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T05:55:14","slug":"romanesco-a-fractal-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/2009\/01\/27\/romanesco-a-fractal-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanesco \u2013 A Fractal Food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whole Romanesco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the great things about belonging to a food co-op is the wide\u00a0variety of fruits and vegetables we get to try.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With\u00a0the latest<\/span>\u00a0offering through www.bountifulbaskets.org<\/span><\/a> we had the opportunity to try a few new items, one was an heirloom vegetable from the 16th<\/sup>century called Romanesco, sometimes referred to as Romanesco Broccoli or Romanesco Cauliflower.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This member of the cauliflower family is\u00a0commonly\u00a0served in Italy and\u00a0has a very mild cauliflower taste with a hint of broccoli.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Romanesco lends itself well to broccoli and cauliflower recipes and is very easy to prep for cooking because of the broccoli like stems on the florets.\u00a0 Romanesco is h<\/span>igh in vitamin C, fiber and carotenoids.\u00a0\u00a0Served raw this vegetable makes a healthy and delicious finger food (as well as a great conversation piece).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Chopped Romanesco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My family and I added it to our dinner vegetable tray with the usual dips.\u00a0 <\/span>It was a big hit with the entire group, everyone raved about the mild flavor and interesting shape.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The shape is very unique, several people at the co-op pick-up site commented on how it looked like something from the old TV show Star Trek.\u00a0 Each piece is a duplicate of the whole,\u00a0repeating the pattern several times.\u00a0 This creates a fractal pattern making it somewhat of an anomaly and popular among the math minded.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I would love to see any Romanesco recipes you may have.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks for sharing and I wish you adventurous and happy\u00a0eating!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the great things about belonging to a food co-op is the wide\u00a0variety of fruits and vegetables we get to try.\u00a0\u00a0 With\u00a0the latest\u00a0offering through www.bountifulbaskets.org we had the opportunity to try a few new items, one was an heirloom vegetable from the 16thcentury called Romanesco, sometimes referred to as Romanesco Broccoli or Romanesco Cauliflower.\u00a0 … Continue reading Romanesco \u2013 A Fractal Food<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,10,16],"tags":[31,32,33,37,39,55,62],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heirloom-fruits-and-veggies","category-interesting-food","category-miscellaneous","category-vegetable-recipes","tag-broccoli","tag-carotenoids","tag-cauliflower","tag-fiber","tag-fractal-food","tag-romanesco","tag-vitamin-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogiron.com\/recipesforyourhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}