Roasted BS…

I laughed earlier when I uploaded a pictured and named it that…

BS was just easier to type than Brussels Sprouts…

Well the picture of the finished dish wasn’t any good… it was blurry and showed my dirty oven which is why you aren’t seeing it here.  But the Roasted BS was yummy…

Last Friday I picked up some ‘sprouts on the stalks’ from my favorite Amish Farmer at The Green Dragon Farmers Market.  See the sprouts there between the huge cauliflower and enormous radish… yes radish practically the size of baseballs!  And that broccoli… oooooh so pretty!  A head of yellow cauliflower came home with me too – I’ll make soup with it later today.

Then we visited the Amish Bakery down the isle… to pick up some sticky buns with pecans!  Mmm, mmm, mmm – so yummy!  The Engineer also loves ShooFly Pie…

Anyway – back to the sprouts…

I cut them off the stalk, washed and trimmed them.  Then I cut the large ones in half, sprinkled them with olive oil and a red/black pepper mix.  I mixed these up earlier in the day and let them sit in the oil/pepper mix for a couple hours before I threw them in the oven on a roasting pan.  I cooked them at 350 degrees… stirred them around every once in a while and left them to cook… until they were done…  (Sorry I know you hate it when I do that but I was doing other stuff and wasn’t rushing them.  When they were about done I had The Engineer throw the steaks on.)  Nicely browned on the outside and tender and mild (not at all bitter tasting) on the inside.  I liked the ‘heat’ from the red pepper… this went very nicely with the steak we cooked that evening.

You can Google Roasted Brussels Sprouts to see pictures and recipes… (most seem to cook at 400 for 30/40 minutes) I did see one link that mentioned balsamic vinegar… I may have to go back and try that one.

I cooked up a batch of applesauce on Sunday for the freezer.  My apples seem to be past their prime so I’m not going to spend too much time cutting things up.  I’ll probably make up some apple pies and a crisp today and put those in the freezer too. I think the warmer than normal temps have caused them to soften up too soon.

On Friday I finished up the January Quilt from Kim Schaefer’s Calendar Quilts.  I need to add some decorative stitching and then quilt it… but it’s assembled.  He’s cute don’t ya think?  I do have to add this project to my University list… there will be one quilt for each month. 

This weekend I also tackled the knitting 2 socks at a time technique.  I had ordered the Knitting Circles Around Socks book (from KnitPicks) after seeing it mentioned by Judy L’s blog.  I only restarted once… so far… It was really odd getting started but once the socks had some substance it was a little easier. 

I have only once (so far) picked up the wrong needle to knit with and ended up with 3 sections on the one needle.  Easiest way out of that was to grab a double pointed needle and move the sections off the circular needles and then put them back on the right needles.

I am working on the legs still… I’ll let you know if I’m still excited about this when I get to the heels.  Who am I kidding… nobody likes a heel…