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Brussel Sprout Fever! (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Dec 2024 OP
Awesome My Friend BOSSHOG Dec 2024 #1
Roasted chestnuts, pan-seared diced bacon, and minced shallots sounds great! dgauss Dec 2024 #2
Free yourself Grasshopper BOSSHOG Dec 2024 #5
I'm going to try. dgauss Dec 2024 #6
The most interesting way I ate Brussels sprouts was... Trueblue Texan Jan 2025 #13
That really does sound good. Thanks! dgauss Jan 2025 #14
Pretty sure it's asparagus masquerading as broccoli OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2024 #3
Sounds great, except for the brussels sprouts part. Ocelot II Dec 2024 #4
Brussel sprouts are greatly underappreciated. Ferrets are Cool Dec 2024 #7
I had roasted sprouts just the other day mdmc Dec 2024 #8
DH loves them, so I keep looking for recipes and making them for him. chowmama Dec 2024 #9
Go for it. Love those sprouts!! La Coliniere Jan 2025 #10
I'm spoiled - I can get whole stalks of them in the fall Retrograde Jan 2025 #11
Happy farting ! eppur_se_muova Jan 2025 #12
Yum! buzzycrumbhunger Jan 4 #15

dgauss

(1,291 posts)
2. Roasted chestnuts, pan-seared diced bacon, and minced shallots sounds great!
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 11:15 PM
Dec 2024

Brussel sprouts sounds like some kind of atonement to me. I know I should embrace them. It may just be ignorance about brussel sprouts but I'm just not there yet...

BOSSHOG

(41,801 posts)
5. Free yourself Grasshopper
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 11:17 PM
Dec 2024

Except the sprout. Imagine how good bacon will be when paired with Brussels sprouts.

Trueblue Texan

(3,250 posts)
13. The most interesting way I ate Brussels sprouts was...
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 10:34 AM
Jan 2025

...boiled in crab boil water! Sounds disgusting, I know, but they were great! Full of spices! I also like to shred them and add green onions and slivered almonds and toss them with rice vinegar and toasted sesame oil, warming them in a skillet before serving. Pretty yummy. They are also really good fermented in a plain salt brine with a few cloves of whole garlic. That's my favorite. When you know you need to eat some green veggies you just pluck a few out of the jar and eat them. No prep or fuss necessary.

chowmama

(685 posts)
9. DH loves them, so I keep looking for recipes and making them for him.
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 11:44 PM
Dec 2024

But I still can't forget my mother's 'boiled half an hour to kill the botulism' version. Mom's vegicide was the stuff of sulfurous nightmares. I just have to get over it. Some day.

I have learned to love asparagus, so there's hope.

Retrograde

(11,014 posts)
11. I'm spoiled - I can get whole stalks of them in the fall
Wed Jan 1, 2025, 01:30 AM
Jan 2025

I live near Monterey county, where there are a lot of sprouts farms (and other brassicas, and artichokes) so I can get stalks of sprouts that were growing a couple of hours ago. Everything else - even the supposedly fresh ones in stores - pales by comparison.

Just keep the preparation simple - I roast them, then toss with the good olive oil.

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,053 posts)
15. Yum!
Sat Jan 4, 2025, 09:36 PM
Jan 4

My favorite is to halve them and sauté until brown, pinch of salt and a shake of onion powder, toss in some cranberries (fresh or dried) and walnuts or pecans, then deglaze with a generous dousing of raspberry-walnut vinaigrette until sticky.

They’re sweet, earthy, tangy, and woe to me if my daughter is home to help eat them because she will arm wrestle me for the last serving.

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