>>233916641) Cheese & roasted cauliflower soup is fairly inoffensive in texture and flavour. There's a fancy version that you serve inside a hollowed-out loaf of bread.
2) There is something called demi-glace that is effectively a thicker, glossier form of gravy. This can be applied to roasted vegetables as a way of making things more exciting.
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https://thebellyrulesthemind.net/instant-pot-vegan-orange-cauliflower/4) Lentil/Bean soups with croutons (very lightly browned as to not hurt their over-sensitive mouths) are a means of getting the base plant flavour to be accepted. Egyptian and Iranian (to some degree Turkish though they can do a bit hard on one type of spice at times) soups can help here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_S1UgLzQVEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap9TaNkEPxgYou might notice a pattern. In no example are vegetables left unattended on the side and only 2 are they not worked into a bigger dish.
>>23391613Several of us have done that, I think. It's ultimately about respect.
Respect for the food.
Respect for your kid's taste.
Respect for your own instincts.
This isn't about some modern thing like learning to always wear super clean and pressed clothes or using the pot rather than the woods.
This is about an innate trait humans have been selected for for a quarter of a million years.
Thus, everyone has - to one degree or another - the ability to partake in these things.
Unless of course you wanna raise the person fully carnist, but that's a different story entirely.