Brussel Sprout Fever!

[no_hypocrisy]

Roasted one pound with just salt & pepper.

Made one pound with roasted chestnuts, pan-seared diced bacon, and minced shallots.

[BOSSHOG]

1. Awesome My Friend

I thoroughly enjoy Brussels Sprouts.

[dgauss]

2. Roasted chestnuts, pan-seared diced bacon, and minced shallots sounds great!

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]

5. Free yourself Grasshopper

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

[dgauss]

6. I'm going to try.

I'm really, really going to try.

[Trueblue Texan]

13. The most interesting way I ate Brussels sprouts was...

...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.

[dgauss]

14. That really does sound good. Thanks!

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Pretty sure it's asparagus masquerading as broccoli

Beware.

[Ocelot II]

4. Sounds great, except for the brussels sprouts part.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Brussel sprouts are greatly underappreciated.

[mdmc]

8. I had roasted sprouts just the other day

[chowmama]

9. DH loves them, so I keep looking for recipes and making them for him.

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.

[La Coliniere]

10. Go for it. Love those sprouts!!

[Retrograde]

11. I'm spoiled - I can get whole stalks of them in the fall

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.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Happy farting !

May it be not too painful !

[buzzycrumbhunger]

15. Yum!

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.