August 1, 2008: Brussels Sprouts

former children seem close to rejoice inwards their hate of it. I suspect that my mum was ane of their pose out together with hence never cooked them for me - I in all probability reached adulthood without fifty-fifty knowing exactly what a Brussels sprout looked like.

I suppose their greenish leafy layers together with relation to the cabbage are non nifty selling points to the corn-and-carrots crowd, but I intend these compact niggling bundles are genuinely quite cute. I count myself lucky that I'm exclusively simply getting to know them now, afterward a corporation decade of developing a existent appreciation for vegetables. This agency I tin say easily together with without prejudice that I similar Brussels sprouts simply fine!

I'm non on whatsoever one-person induce to heighten awareness of the Brussels sprout. Plenty of other keen cooks bring been enjoying it for years. It was genuinely a collaborator at operate who kickoff extolled to me the virtues of lightly steamed sprouts, fried inwards butter. Others swallow them alongside Great Big Vegetable Challenge (even making the listing of vegetables Freddie unequivocally likes!). In many recipes, caramelisation seems to hold upwards the key. So I started yesteryear frying them alongside saccharide - fifty-fifty Attica.

Is the Brussels sprout my novel French fry? Not yesteryear a long shot, but there's enough of room for the sprout to create its ain unique affair inwards my kitchen.