Dear All, Who has a good recipe for brussels sprouts?
Yesterday, at Trader Joe's, I bought this whole stalk of brussels sprouts. It looked so other-worldly and cool, I couldn't resist!
Then, today, I spent about an hour with Google, researching how to cook brussels sprouts. (Always before, I bought brussels sprouts already disconnected from the stalk they grew on, and I had soaked them in salted water for 10 minutes, rinsed and drained, and then dropped them into boiling salted water for a few minutes, ala James Beard's directions in one of his early books.)
I had thought that I might find a recipe for roasting them while still on the stalk, but none of the recipes I looked at recommended this method (even though a kid at TJ's tole me he had roasted the whole stalk and the sprouts were delicious!)
The consensus among all of the Google-located experts was that roasting them is the way to go! So, I did that. I followed the majority of the roasting instructions and cut the sprouts off the stalk and then rolled them in olive oil, sprinkled liberally with salt and pepper, and roasted at a high temperature (450). The resulting sprouts were *very unattractive! They turned into crispy little brown-to-black balls. If you peeled off the crispy outer shell, the interior was really pretty tasty, but it was among the most unattractive dishes I have ever tried serving my family!
So, other than cooking them briefly in boiling salted water and then dolloping butter on top of the drained sprouts, does anyone have a really good recipe for preparing fresh brussels sprouts? I still have half the stalk with quite a few brussels sprouts clinging to it in my refrigerator.
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