Sometimes (more frequently lately) I go totally MIA for a week straight. While I would love to say I surprise took a vacation to Hawaii or won the lottery and was busy counting my millions — in reality, it’s because we’re painting a bathroom. Though it really doesn’t take that long to paint, we had a little other fixing up to do, plus it’s hot as balls in there with no ventilation. Long story short, I did a lot of not cooking and not blogging last week.
These I made before last week, so why I didn’t post them is beyond me. Why I didn’t make them a loooooong time ago is even further beyond me. This concept has been floating around the internet for a while, and I finally decided to jump in. I just happened to have a leftover gluten free beer and a head of cauliflower I meant to rice the week before, so they were born out of hunger and not really pre-planned. Sometimes, those are the best meals, right? Because the beer was already gluten free, I saw no reason to go mucking that up with wheat flour and opted for brown rice flour.
The pictures are with Buffalo sauce and Ranch, but you could (and I did) dip these in BBQ sauce or any other sauce your heart desires. While I love Buffalo sauce, sometimes it’s just too spicy and doesn’t love me back. I ate a few with the spicy stuff but didn’t feel like having heartburn all night, so now I can highly recommend these dipped in any sauce you happen to be fond of. I also feel like mentioning that these are nothing like chicken wings — I know that seems self explanatory, but sometimes people miss the obvious and you get angry emails and blog comments 😉
Tagged with: Beer • Dairy Free • Egg Free • Gluten Free • Nut Free • Party Food • Soy Free • Vegan • Vegetarian
This is a great idea! Buffalo tenders are delicious but I rarely eat them because of the dreaded calories, can’t wait to dig into a bowl full!
These look amazing! Love the idea!
These sound amazing!!!! Cannot wait to try them, though I rarely ever have leftover GF beer 😉
This sounds fabulous! Love that these are baked. Cauliflower is so versatile!
How have I not made these before?!!!! I love everything about these crispy love nuggets and want to dip them in every sauce ever. I’m seriously making doe eyes at you right now 🙂 Insert heart-eye emoji here
I wouldn’t WANT these to be anything like chicken wings! Cauliflower wings sound good enough for me. Love that you spiced them up with buffalo sauce!
I know all too well how easy it is too lose weeks of your life to the paint can 🙂 Great recipe, which I will be making very soon!
I had to read the name of the post twice! Love the idea of buffalo-izing cauliflower! I’m not into real wings but do like the spiciness so this is perfect for me!
Haha, this is such a fun cute idea. I love cauliflower but I also love wings so who says I can’t brush a load of BBQ sauce on my cauliflower? Must try!
I’ve been MIA for a couple weeks, too! We just got a new puppy and he takes up every.single.minute. And yes, lots of great ideas a few weeks ago. I’m sure they will come back to me. I hope they do. 🙂
I’ve heard of buffalo cauliflower wings! Never tried them … but I SUPER want to now! I mean, it’s a really simple recipe … and I love spicy!! YUM! Can’t wait!! Thanks, Kelly!
Wow!! These look amazing! So cute and fun!! YUM 🙂
Painting is sooo time-consuming. We had to repaint almost our entire house when we bought it last April. I feel your pain! This cauliflower looks delicious. Thank you for sharing it!
And now I am going to have to start adding beer to my cauliflower wings… I bet these are so awesome!
It really just adds that something extra!
I agree, sometimes the best meals are born out of hunger and needing to eat immediately! Or at least maybe they taste so good because I’m so hungry at the time 🙂 Painting is not a fun job and it always seems to take way more time than I think it should. These look like the perfect snack after a long day of hard work! I really need to try this gluten free beer batter, I’m sure I will want to beer batter everything!
Painting is hard work! Hope your bathroom turned out nice. I have to pass on the beer right now, but these look tasty! I marinated tempeh in Frank’s Red Hot this weekend and then fried it up. So delicious!
Those look fabulous! I’ve made cauliflower wings once before, but they didn’t look nearly as good as these! 🙂