BRUSSELS SPROUTS

            

Here’s a delicious way to make Brussels sprouts.  Yes, that’s right I said “delicious”.  Try them and you’ll agree!    I adapted this recipe from Jamie Deen’s version.   Serve with any entrée (barbeque chicken, pork roast or chops, roast beef or salmon).

Ingredients:

1 to 2 strips of bacon

3 cups Brussels sprouts, trimmed and washed

½ sweet onion, finely chopped

2 T. packed brown sugar

Kosher salt and ground black pepper to taste

Juice of ½ lemon

Instructions:

*Cook the bacon until crispy, then remove from the pan—leaving the bacon drippings in the pan.

*Cook the onion in the drippings until softened just a bit.

*Finely shred the Brussels sprouts—I used a mandolin.

*Add the shredded sprouts to the onion and continue cooking until sprouts are softened.

*Add brown sugar, salt and pepper to taste and freshly squeezed lemon juice.