Cauliflower with harissa cream and pomegranate

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A few weeks ago we visited friends in Portland, OR who took us out for a meal at Tasty N Sons. There, we had fried cauliflower with harissa cream. I don't know if I was just excessively hungry or what, but it was pretty much the most amazing thing I've ever eaten. Back home, I set about trying to create my own rendition of it. I wasn't up for deep frying the cauliflower (as ridiculously amazing as that is), so I roasted it, along with olives and garlic cloves, Then I made some homemade harissa-ish sauce and stirred it into creme fraiche to smother over the top. Then I threw on some pomegranate arils because I had them. They were sort of an after thought, but they also really added a little extra something delicious and worked really well.