Brussels Sprouts Basics
I didn't grow up in a household that ate Brussels Sprouts. I don't think I'd even eaten one until I was an adult and probably at someone else's Thanksgiving dinner. That's what I thought about the vegetable - it was something other people ate. Brussels Sprouts were the food all kids were supposed to hate according to kids books. Frankly, I felt a little intimidated by them. I would see them in the grocery store on those long stalks and while I thought they looked festive, I didn't have the faintest idea about how to handle them. How do you get them off the stalks? What do you do when you have them? Well, my older child took a fancy to Brussels Sprouts this past Thanksgiving and has eaten probably to bags of them a week this year. It is now April. That is a lot of Brussels Sprouts. There are lots of fancy ways to make Brussels Sprouts, but these are the basics. This is how I spend time every Sunday afternoon preparing the vegetables to go in her lunch. Prehea...
