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Brussels sprouts.
No one in the 80s-90s knew how to cook them and always overcooked them. Now they’re made roasted and absolutely delicious.
Oh! It's not just that we got better at cooking them! Brussel sprouts were actually bred to taste better around the 1990s/2000s.
https://www.mashed.com/300870/brussels-sprouts-used-to-taste-a-lot-different-heres-why/
Oh super interesting! I love that we’ve bred all kinds of vegetables and fruits to be more palatable over the eons.
Life never gave us lemons, we made them ourselves.
No wait! I read something about this! Those were totally different brussel sprouts! I guess they came up with a new species that didn't such so bad and that's why brussel sprouts suddenly got tolerable.
Now I have to go see how much of this is true.
Edit: What do you know? All of it! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo
Seconded. Oven roasted or air fried, they're little balls of joy.
I always got boiled ones in the old days, same with spinach 🤮
Airfrying...thank you, good tip!
I always fry them in butter, small onion, garlic and little bacon, then add a very small amount of stock and steam them lid on till the stock has evaporated.
I use more onion and bacon when I am preparing them for Dutch Stamppot.
Soooo goooood.... My go-to now for a really good really "bad" meal are Memphis style ribs with roasted brussel sprouts with butter and garlic.
....why can't you be on sale now ribs lol
I keep hearing this, have to bite the bullet and try sometime.