Knock Knock special feature - Romanesco Cauliflower.

Dear Valued Customer,

How are you? This week is a very nice box. We hope you enjoy it.

Here is a small feature on a very special vegetable included in your box called the Romanesco Cauliflower.



This is an exquisite and unique example of the Fibonacci sequence, where the entire cauliflower is in a logarithmic spiral, which is then made up consecutively smaller buds that are then made of even smaller spirals.

This gives the vegetable an extraterrestrial appearance. These patterns often appear in crop circles.





This is Fibonacci numbers represented graphically:



It is very commonly represented in nature, for example, in pine cones, seashells, etc.

The romanesco cauliflower is a little more tender than the average variety, so you don't need to cook it quite as long, but you can still use it in the same way you normally would.

People often feed them to children as ‘tiny Christmas trees.’

This is my favourite way to eat cauliflower, roasted with tahini sauce:

Ingredients
1 cauliflower, broken into florets
¼ cup olive oil
1 ½ teaspoons salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ cup plus 1 tablespoon tahini paste
¼ cup plus 2 tablespoons water
juice of 1 lemon
1 garlic clove, minced
¼ cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Method
Heat oven to 200 degrees. In a mixing bowl, toss cauliflower with oil, salt and pepper until well coated. Spread in a single layer on baking sheet and roast, stirring and turning once or twice, until cauliflower is tender and crispy brown in spots, about 45 minutes.
While cauliflower is roasting, puree tahini paste, water, lemon juice, garlic, parsley in a blender until well combined.
Remove cauliflower from oven and immediately transfer to a serving bowl. Pour tahini over the cauliflower and toss to combine.
Delicious!

Have a nice week
Sincerely,
Kathryn Barron
(Knock Knock Organics – vice president)