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[tisiphone]

The veggie box from Valley Green Feast is getting more and more adventurous. Today I got... a stick of brussels sprouts. See, I have a real hate-hate relationship with Brussels sprouts. My father used to eat frozen ones, and I always considered them to be the devil's cabbages. But, I never ate one myself. Then last year in a restaurant, I ordered a nouvelle interpretation of corned beef and cabbage, and the "cabbage" it came with was Brussels sprouts. So I figured, hey, I'm a grownup and I'm in a fancy restaurant, I should just eat a fucking Brussels sprout or two. So I cut one in half and I put it in my mouth and... yep. The devil's cabbage.

BUT EVEN SO. It came in the box. I have to cook it and eat it. NOW WHAT.

(Luckily, we also got some yummy, yummy, yummy kale. Or something. Maybe they're collards. They're large and flat. And half a dozen parsnips, which I'm hoping keep for some time, because eating six parsnips at a time really is quite difficult. And a butternut squash. Nom.)

Total contents of box today:
A dozen lovely apples
A bag of mesclun
A loaf of red-leaf lettuce
A bunch of kale... collards... something
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
A small butternut squash
A dozen onions
About a pound of baby potatoes
Two large and robust carrots
Six parsnips

Add-ons of a dozen eggs (I have too many eggs, eek!), a half-gallon of local cider and a quart of Side Hill Farm plain yogurt. I really love the add-on thing, I have to say.
I still have the beets left from last week. I can foresee much roasted veg in my immediate future. I want to use up what I've gotten before next Friday.)

Comments

[tisiphone.livejournal.com]

I have heard that too. I hope it's true, because that's what I'm doing with them.

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

I LOVE BRUSSEL SPROUTS.

Let's see. Roasted with walnuts and bacon + a balsamic vinaigrette glaze + parmesan or bleu cheese = WIN

You can CARAMELIZE them -- :nom nom nom:

Dice them with the beets, put in some carrots for a colorful hash. <3

[innostrantsa.livejournal.com]

YES in buckets to everything you've described doing to the delicious little balls of farty goodness. YUMYUMYUM.

[dolohov.livejournal.com]

Roasted is very good. I've had excellent luck starting them on the stovetop in a cast-iron pan to get that nice crust on the cut sides, then flipping and transferring to the oven.