What Exactly Are Brussels Sprouts? Why Everyone Hated Them

[Free Vulcan]

Nope. No chance with a low tunnel here... Maybe chard and kale... Maybe preserve root veggies in the ground, but not grow em. Makes for an easy harvest I guess, though you're likely fighting snow. Trying to keep em cleaned off before the snow collapses em... But sooner or later, you'll miss, and the whole works will be flat on the ground under 2 ft of snow when you wake up in the morning. 

But it is sure cool that you can get it done. That particular unicorn has evaded me. 

I let them sit all winter, don't take the plastic off till spring so that they are the first thing out of the garden. It's too risky to try and poach them over the winter. I can grow some indoors for that.

I've had collapsed from snow and even if it goes to the ground brush them off and everything comes back.

Add: I used old field fence as the spine, does pretty good on holding up the snow. The big threat is pooling water when it melts.

[Free Vulcan]

Wind Chill Factor on the plant.   

I've thought of that and you may be on to something.

[DCPatriot]

I've thought of that and you may be on to something.

ROFL!  Just bolted because many here on this thread debated the validity of "wind chill" just the other day.

[DefiantMassRINO]

... the Devil's stubble.

[libertybele]

I have to laugh and perhaps this is a good sign that brussel sprouts has gotten this much attention.

Give me squash, sweet potatoes, green beans, lettuces, peas, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, etc., but hold the darn brussel sprouts!!!

[berdie]

Only if you're talking greenhouse tomatoes. A ripe tomato picked off the vine in your own garden is one of God's gifts to mankind.

Absolutely! I could make a whole meal out of them.

[mystery-ak]

Well I'm here to stick up for brussel sprouts...I love them smothered in butter...I guess you all hate broccoli too?

[roamer_1]

Well I'm here to stick up for brussel sprouts...I love them smothered in butter...I guess you all hate broccoli too?

Yup, me too. I don't get it. Same taste, pretty much, as a cabbage.
The only thing I don't like about brussel sprouts is their tendency to hold dirt. You'd better clean em right, or you'll get a sandy surprise. 

[libertybele]

Well I'm here to stick up for brussel sprouts...I love them smothered in butter...I guess you all hate broccoli too?

Brussel sprouts have a texture and taste that I just find unappetizing.  My father absolutely loved them and he usually made some when we visited for dinner -- by that point -- I just passed as did my kids.  Broccoli isn't my favorite but I'll eat it if we go out and it's part of the meal.

[Bigun]

Well I'm here to stick up for brussel sprouts...I love them smothered in butter...I guess you all hate broccoli too?

  

[libertybele]

Yup, me too. I don't get it. Same taste, pretty much, as a cabbage.
The only thing I don't like about brussel sprouts is their tendency to hold dirt. You'd better clean em right, or you'll get a sandy surprise. 

Not a cabbage fan either.   

[libertybele]

Well I'm here to stick up for brussel sprouts...I love them smothered in butter...I guess you all hate broccoli too?

Well, I do like butter.   

[roamer_1]

Not a cabbage fan either.   

Oh yeah...
Coin up a kielbasa (you can get turkey/chicken kielbasa that is only terrible for salt) and sear it both sides... pull it off and hold it for later.

fry up onion, g.pepper, and celery till the celery has a soft bite and the onions are just starting to caramelize.

Add in about a quarter of a cabbage, cut to about 1/2" coins and then busted up... cover to aid in wilting... stir occaisionally till the cabbage has a soft bite.

Add back the kielbasa coins and stir em in... just long enough to heat em up. Spices according to taste.

That right there is a very nice meal... You can add in brussel sprouts if you'd like. 

[Polly Ticks]

Well I'm here to stick up for brussel sprouts...I love them smothered in butter...I guess you all hate broccoli too?

I am not a picky eater -- we were too poor to be picky so I learned to like most things -- but Brussel sprouts are the one thing I despise.  Everybody always says they're just cooked wrong, but I've tried several versions and they are all little bites of bitter despair.

Broccoli, I absolutely love.

[Wingnut]

Take your cabbage turds and stuff them.  Lets talk about a real vegetable.  The tender asparagus.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=577585.msg3272446#msg3272446

[mystery-ak]

Take your cabbage turds and stuff them.  Lets talk about a real vegetable.  The tender asparagus.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=577585.msg3272446#msg3272446

I love asparagus especially cooked on the grill...topped with lemon juice, garlic and parmesan cheese

[Wingnut]

I love asparagus especially cooked on the grill...topped with lemon juice, garlic and parmesan cheese

Yum Yum. 

[Cyber Liberty]

Take your cabbage turds and stuff them.  Lets talk about a real vegetable.  The tender asparagus.

https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=577585.msg3272446#msg3272446

 

[roamer_1]

I love asparagus especially cooked on the grill...topped with lemon juice, garlic and parmesan cheese

Zackly! ... Served as a side to a honey-mustard glazed grilled slab of salmon.... and a nice rice pilaf.