A change is coming...Do you dive in or slip in slowly?

Oh my gosh, I came here today to do some housekeeping so I could start writing again....I've missed writing. It's crazy that my very first post on this blog was September 21, 2011, almost exactly 12 years ago.  Where has the time gone? 

My last post here was about how to make a face mask on April 2, 2020. 

You won't find it here on this blog anymore. I filed it in the "please don't remind me" pile. 

My life has not been idle.

 Suzie's Imaginarium (home of the Fisher Price Bunny Puppet) has kept me busy. 

So many bunnies....over 5000 out there in the world.  I love making my bunnies!

                                                           

           

Did you know that long before my bunnies took over my Imaginarium, I created and sold lots of crafty things in my Etsy shop? Bags (of course), tissue boxes, shoe bags, pencil pouches,angels 

(lots of angels).

I have continued creating non-bunny things. It keeps my mind working and soothes my soul. Recently, I got the itch to have a place to put my non-bunny creations.(silly me)

I scratched that itch and gave it a name and opened a second shop on Etsy. Fractured Fabric Arts  

 After all, it's what I love to do....cut it up and put it back together! It was going to be amazing....

The younger me would have 2,3 or more shops (that's my dad in me) but, this older me is having a dilemma. Having more than one shop to take care of is feeling very scattered to me. I don't like it. 

My life has become compact and minimalist and having two shops is just not fitting in. 

Honestly, the only place I want turmoil is in my sewing room 

while I am creating. 

<----------------a fine example of sewing room turmoil 

A change will have to be made. It's going to be painful because it will involve computer time...ugh...and thinking....ugh...and social media stuff...UGH...lol.

I'm diving in...making the change....

Do you "dive in" to a change in your life or are you more of a "toe in the water then slowly slide in" kind of change maker? 

Cauliflower rice?

As I've gotten older, my tummy has been telling me that I need to change some things.
Reluctantly, I've stopped eating rice, bread and pasta (ok, about 98% of my meals do not have these things in them, I still can't resist pizza so that makes up the other 2%). I hate to admit it, but just doing this alone has done wonders for my tummy and yes, even my waistline.


BUT....I MISS ALL OF THEM! They were the comfort in my food. What is a meatloaf without mashed potatoes? A chicken noodle soup without the noodles? A hamburger without the bun?

There is an untold amount of advice and recipes for the low carb way of eating on the web.  I have spent a lot of time trolling for ideas to answer the "what's for dinner..lunch...breakfast" question.

Recently the buzz has been about riced cauliflower. Really?
This can't possibly go well.

This is not a new trick....when I was younger, my mom tried to pass off mashed cauliflower for mashed potatoes and the whole herd of us (I come from a family of 11 kids) piled the "mashed potatoes" on our plate. The rule at the table was that you could not leave the table until you ate everything on the plate. Sound familiar?

Of course, once we discovered we had been duped, there we sat with a pile of phony mashed potatoes. We sat, and sat and sat. I don't even remember who won the stand-off but I never forgot that I hate cauliflower!

I'm all grown up now and love my vegetables....except cauliflower, it still has no place in my kitchen. In a moment of insanity on a previous attempt to low carb it, I did once make a pizza dough using cauliflower....I have yet to use that recipe again. While others find cauliflower a fabulous low carb replacement, it has always made me want to turn and run from the table.....until now.

<---------------- Here it is....the product that has been flying out of the refrigerators at Trader Joe's. Of course, you can do this to cauliflower on your own, but why?  I brought it home very skeptically
but willing to give cauliflower this one last chance.

GoodFood had already done the research for all of us cauliflowerphobes and I have never met a vegetable I didn't like toasted in the oven with olive oil and salt.

I bravely drizzled and salted the surprisingly rice- like morsels.


Still skeptical...smells like cauliflower :(




I spread it into a baking sheet

Hmmmm, I was slowly coming around...

                                                time would tell.....

 

It did look beautiful as it came out of the oven.

Fluffy with a little crunch.  

I gave it a little taste and I mean a very little taste just on the tip of my tongue, it's all the brave I could muster.

I expected to toss the rest.

I'm here to tell you that the rest made it to my plate!


Cauliflower has found a place in my kitchen. It's not rice and I'm fairly certain I wouldn't use it in just any recipe calling for rice...I can't go there yet....but as a companion to the sweet peas that I may have with my new favorite low carb meatloaf recipe, I say YES, I will eat cauliflower once in awhile and that is a victory for cauliflower and maybe even my mom :)

How do you feel about cauliflower? Have you tried this product?

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From the Bunny Farm

           

Now THIS is the "love of the bunny"!

I hope this brings a smile to your face! I love seeing the smile my bunnies bring to their little owners!

                                                              

                             Sigh.....I love my job!