A White Meal

Honey Roasted Chicken with Roasted Cauliflower*

7-8 pieces chicken of your choice, I suggest skinless thighs w/bones
2 Tbsp butter
1/4 c OJ
2 Tbsp lemon juice
3 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp dijon or yellow mustard
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbsp curry powder
1 tsp cornstarch
1/4 cup cold water
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1 head cauliflower
olive oil
1/4 to 1/2 tsp chili powder
1/4 tsp ground cumin
salt

Melt butter in small saucepan, save pan for later. Add OJ through curry powder. Place chicken in 9x13 pan, pour butter sauce over chicken. Bake at 375 for 35-40 min or until done. While baking, put cold water into saucepan . Add cornstarch. Take chicken out of pan, pour juices back into saucepan. Heat to bubbling to thicken sauce.

Cut cauliflower into florets. Place on baking sheet lined with foil. Drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with chili powder, cumin and salt. Toss with hands. Bake at 375 for 35-40 min, turning once half way through.

Sauce is good on basmati or brown rice.

* Adapted from "SOS" cookbook.

Parley
So I titled this "A White Meal" because tonight when we sat down to white cauliflower, white-ish rice (we had basmati) and chicken,....with milk....we realized everything was mostly white. Luckily the sauce added a skosh of color, but still. Pretty monochromatic. Martha would be disappointed. Anyway....this menu combo caught my eye mostly because of its relative ease ( I like menus that all roast/bake together) and because it had cauliflower. And the book claims that even non-cauliflower connoisseurs find this cauliflower hard to resist. Ugh, I'm tired of typing out cauliflower. Let's rename it to.....I don't know. I knew Jenn would laugh when she discovered that I chose said veggie to make. Voluntarily. You see, normally I really do NOT enjoy it. Raw, its gritty texture and lack of pigment has no appeal to me. But alas, as any good foodie does, I am continually trying to broaden my appreciation for foods, both new and old. Cauliflower (there's that stinkin' word again) is definitely "old" in my book. Heck, it even looks old for some reason. So the verdict? Chicken is good. Next time I might add something with kick to the sauce....cayenne possibly. Cauliflower? YUMMY. Yep. James and I both liked it, deeming it worthy of revisiting.

A small sigh in my world, as I have found another veggie that is yummy. A big chuckle, as even Audrey didn't seem to like the word cauliflower. She called it "Colorado". :)