Cauliflower, heat, and trouble around the corner
The other day, I was roasting cauliflower at a high temperature and I put a baking dish into the oven at the same time to warm up to put the veg into once it was done. Big mistake. I pulled it out to fill it with the roasted cauliflower and an almighty CRACK ing noise announced the end of that nice white baking dish. Damn! I knew better than to take that risk. Some risks are worth taking, others not so much. The trick is to know the difference when you’re facing that moment of decision-making: To forge ahead and plunge into the darkness or to slow down until the sun comes up? To jump on board the unexpected option that comes your way or to be patient and wait for the one you had planned for? And so on. Of course, we don’t always know it’s a risk we’re facing. Sometimes it’s simply what’s in front of us and naivety gets us through it. At least it did me, back in the late ‘70s. I was not yet 18, when I spent about three months in Paris, staying with friends of friends, speaking Fren...