Brussels Sprouts - Funny Little Cabbages

[Farmfresh]

I love Brussels Sprouts and so do my kids. I remember the first time I fed them a Brussels sprout. I loaded the deck that day for best results.

1. They were really hungry (we had spent the morning working horses and it was a late dinner for sure)
2. I sauteed them in some butter and salt and they were sweet perfection in their buttery sauce.
3. I put them in one small bowl in the middle of the table.
4. I told the children that that was all the sprouts I had and reminded them to share.
5. Then I left the room and watched them fight over Brussels sprouts. (you know that they weren't going to share them right?)

After that first bowl was demolished I fed them the rest of supper. They have all liked Brussels sprouts ever since.



Brussels sprouts are in the same family as cabbage. They take a LONG time to grow, but are very productive and tough. The sprouts that you plant in the spring will be still producing around Christmas here and I have had them even over winter here in zone 5B. They get sweeter after a frost and are much better then.

Like the rest of the sulphurous vegetables in the Cole family they are very nutritious. They even have vitamin C and vitamin K in them.

I like my sprouts done simple. Roasted, or sauteed or cooked in butter in a foil pouch on the grill.

Here is how I do them roasted.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts

* Brussels sprouts - washed and trimmed if necessary. Large ones split in half.
* Olive oil (or even better bacon grease)
* Salt (less if you use bacon grease)
* garlic powder

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Basically wash them, trim them, run them through the oil or grease and pan roast on about 375 until they start showing some color.

EZ

[Old Fashioned]

Thank you


I do remember as a kid when my parents tried to get me to eat these things and Dad had said they were just little cabbages, cause I did like cabbage. But I didn't like them at first, until he said that. But they didn't grace our table often in those days and by the time I was grown & doing my own cooking, they weren't invited to my table.....mostly because there were so many other veggies that were more my first choices and sprouts were pushed aside...mainly forgotten about.
Then several years ago my aunt cleaned out her freezer & gave the stuff to us. There was a bag of sprouts and I remembered eating them as a child. So I boiled some up and BLECH, phewy, nasty. Nobody liked them. Then I had some at SIL's that weren't so bad and I got to rethinking their possibilities......but that's as far as that got

I'll try them again in the near future, prepared a different way (probably like you suggested) and let you know if they're a keeper or not.

[Rhodie Ranch]

As I said, they are my fav veggie. I eat them hot, cold, and cook them any which way. Boiled, steamed, roasted, pan fried, YUM!!

I planted four seedlings of them. Lets see if they make it.

[calendula]

I like my sprouts best with bacon. Cook up about 6 peices of bacon first. Then, cut the sprouts in half and saute them in the bacon grease until they start to get brown spots. Crumble the cooked bacon over top and serve.

[dizzy]

Hubby loves them. He can have them!