Sometimes you can hate something but you still have to deal with it. You know like your team losing in the playoffs or Obama becoming President. That's me and brussel sprouts.
I hate brussel sprouts but the wife loves them. We had them recently when they were shredded like cabbage and she has been after me to cook them for her. When we were on vacation at Seatuck last month we spent a lot of time in "Home Goods" which is a store that Lisa loves to shop in. While I was there I scored a couple of discount cook books that are coming in handy. One was the big titted guinea bitch from the Cooking channel and the other was Jacques Pepin from his PBS show.
In the book he had a brussel sprouts receipe that I adapted for the wife.
Ingredients.
A shitload of brussel sprouts.
Bacon
Olive Oil
Gruyere Cheese
(White Balsamic Vinegar which I added)
Basically you cut your bacon strips into four pieces. Cook until crispy and take out of the pan but keep the oil
Shred the brussel sprouts so it looks like the cabbage in the inside of an eggroll. Toss it into the bacon fat and sautee it up until it is soft and cooked.
Throw the bacon back in and mix it up.
Drizzle on some olive oil for flavor. Then pout on some White Balsamic Vinegar for flavor. Smush it all around.
Serve it warm as a side dish along with a nice t-bone steak.
It came out pretty good.
24 comments:
Serve the steak and dump the Brussels sprouts. They taste like acetone to me. I don't think anything can make them taste good. But...maybe they are OK when disguised by bacon :-P
My son and I cannot tolerate the smell of beets. My wife and daughter love them. When they want to eat beets, we leave.
It must be the season. November...
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds,
November!
Fixed fresh spinach in cream sauce tonight, with glazed pork roast.
Yum. Creamed spinach.
I'm the only person I know who sort of likes Brussels sprouts. But then, I occasionally put anchovies on my pizza, so whaddya expect.
Nadia has a good show, for an Italian from Quebec
Here is her brussel sprout recipe. You can make this for Lisa, then eat the sausages and leave the sprouts for her. Win Win.
I had a friend who candied her brussel sprouts, with bacon too. It worked on most of the die hard sprout haters. Brown sugar and bacon grease makes anything taste good.
I have never voluntarily consumed Brussels sprouts - as a child I ate them due to the threat of violence if I didn't.
Once I left home I never ate another.
Nor do I eat cabbage in any form. That stuff is toxic.
I did have two tomatoes this year. That was nice. Other than that, no vegetables at all, and yes, I know, tomatoes are fruit.
When I get tired of broccoli I'll substitute with brussels sprouts for awhile. But, as with the broccoli, and all the other vegetables for that matter, the secret is sauteing them all (onions, tomatoes, brussels sprouts, mushrooms) together in olive oil. Then you throw in rice, or pasta, or potatoes, season the whole mixture and voila, a meal. I left out the meat part. If it's chopped meat you brown it first, before sauteing the veggies, if it's shrimp (I'm on a shrimp kick now) you throw them in last and cook as short a time as possible. Oh, you're all way beyond such basic stuff? Buncha epicures....is epicures the right word? I dunno.
Fixed fresh spinach in cream sauce tonight, with glazed pork roast.
Still have some cabbage and lettuce growing in the garden. Didn't plant spinach. We usually go for chard if we plant any greens.
I'm back. Brussel sprouts is correct, not brussels sprouts. I knew that but being less than a giant of self-confidence I saw that Chip and Sixty wrote brussels sprouts so sheepishly I did the same. Let that be a lesson to all of us!
Brussel sprouts is correct, not brussels sprouts.
For sure they're more suited to spelling controversy than eating.
Now let's argue about tomatoes! :)
Anything to take our minds off this fuckin' election.
I so detest that food that when the built in spell check only allowed Brussels I could not be bothered to look it up.
I did have neighbors who would grow them and this time of year they would dust the snow off them to harvest them. That they can be snowed upon without degradation is testament enough to their inedible nature.
Mamam is back!
tits.
60, I didn't look it up at first. I just figured that if DBQ and Trooper spelled it differently, well, let's just say that Trooper isn't a slave to precision when it comes to spelling.
In case anyone is wondering, that is how understatement is done!
Mamam is back!
Not only am I back, I tried the brussel sprouts recipe last night, combining it with mashed potatoes for a result somewhere between Dutch wilted lettuce and German potato salad. It was good and fun to try, but didn't replace anything on my list of favorites. The time and effort spent cleaning, chopping and turning the little sprouts into shreds seemed a labor of love, more impressive than dusted crown molding.
There is now a bottle of White Balsamic Vinegar (which I previously didn't know existed) sitting on my shelf as testimony to the Blog 'n' Butterfly Effect.
I've been focused on food and eating more than usual recently. Not sure this is connected to the season, time change, low light, or the election causing me to retreat back to focus on Maslow's level one survival needs.
The time spent carving those three days felt good. I set up shop at the kitchen table when I got home and have been tracking wood chips through the house since. Relocation to a less trafficked area might be in order, but the thing is, I like sitting there and don't want to move and do the sensible thing. My own version of defiance, control and enjoyment in the face of change and "appearance management" gone amok. Some people chiz on their computer, some litter their floor with chips.
...that is how understatement is done!
The snow on the sprouts thing was pretty good too.
So was the comment in the ChipS link declaring them to be "high in fiber and low in fat and calories". So is grass!
MamaM wrote "So is grass!"
That made me laugh out loud.
As for chips - I make hundreds of pounds of chips. Many more pounds of dust. I track them wherever I care to. I live alone.
I shall leave it to others to debate the "correlation is not causation" thing. I am just statin' the facts, ma'am.
My diet has changed for the worse in the last week as well. Oh well, this too shall pass. I am keeping busy and just today finished two Kwanzaa vessels - can't beat 'em, can't join 'em, but I can turn a profit from 'em. That is the path I have chosen.
I like brussel sprouts. However, I'm someone who can eat anything. When I was in the Army, I liked that food, and when I had no other choice of food, but C rations, hell, I liked them too. Not that I wanted to eat that stuff every day of my life, but when you're hungry and there's no other choce, WTF, eat. Make the best of the situation that you're handed.
To hell w/ understatement.
It's Brussels sprouts, like the European city full of the kind of people who'd be so happy about eatin' mini cabbages that they'd name them after their home town.
Altho the capitalization is optional.
Youse guys didn't really think Trooper would spe it rite, didja?
Oops, I dropped the "l" from "spel".
I like Ike & tits.
The Rhymes with BRUSSELS SPROUT section was fun:
down and out,
autoroute,
cast about,
cutthroat trout,
bring about
dinner out.
Stopped short of answering What made you want to look up brussels sprout?
I prefer broccoli to Brussel sprouts, but I prefer bacon to both.
But no more Twinkies.
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