For some reason this post is publishing weird. I know it's distracting, but I can't figure out why it's doing this, so hopefully it won't bug you as much as it's bugging me! Must be the brussel sprouts.
I love to cook. I will try to cook almost anything. Over the
years I have learned that things I thought tasted bad (broccoli, peas), are
actually good when cooked properly. I love websites like Pinterest and apps
like Yummly, on which I can spend hours pinning or “yum’ing” hundreds of
recipes. This summer I have been trying to use my CSA veggies that we get from
Bluestem Farms to try new things. Roasting vegetables has been one way that I
have been experimenting with unfamiliar foods like radishes and beets. I have really been stretching the limits of my
culinary experimentation even when it has come to using ingredients like tofu.
But there is one food that I simply cannot CANNOT bring myself to experiment
with and that’s brussel sprouts. I have seen recipe after recipe of brussel
sprouts happily adorning salads and as delightful side dishes with wonderful
looking sauces. But to me, brussel sprouts are that evil bitter tasting side
dish that sat on my plate until bone cold at 9:00 at night while I waited out
my mom’s “You will sit there until you clean your plate” command. But brussel
sprouts seem to have become popular these days. If you look on Pinterest or
Yummly you can find pages of recipes for them. I have been vehemently against
cooking them until I started watching some cooking videos from my favorite healthy
cooking guru, Dani Spies. She is a blogger and YouTuber who has all kinds of
instructional videos and recipes. When I have an ingredient I don’t know what
to do with (e.g. Hakurei Turnips) I will usually search her site and see if she
has posted anything about them. One day in particular I kept stumbling across
recipes for roasted brussel sprouts. Curiosity overtook me and I thought
“maybe?” As I started watching the video I got this bad feeling deep in the pit
of my stomach and I quickly paused it like one does when getting to the scary
“Don’t open that door!” part of a horror movie. After about a half-hour I
returned to the video and with an upset stomach and determination I watched the
remainder of the video, “How to Roast Brussel Sprouts” and watched Dani tell me
how to make these evil little demons into delectable morsels. As she nibbled on
the completed product she said “This recipe is sure to make anyone into a
brussel sprout lover!” They actually looked somewhat tempting, but as to
whether or not I’ll actually get over my brusselsproutphobia is yet to be seen.
Like I said, I’ll cook almost anything…almost.
P.S.
Just in case you are a BS lover (I couldn’t resist) here is the recipe:
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