Bananas and Brussels Sprouts: Making healthy things unhealthy

While Bananas and Brussels Sprouts are often considered to be healthy choices, we’ve decided to mess with that expectation. Let us explain. We’ll start with the Brussels Sprouts.

Our relationship with Brussels Sprouts started not long after we met.  And just as a bottle of wine and some delicious tapas helped make our own introduction relatively easy, we were similarly given an easy introduction to the off-putting vegetable when one of A’s best friends insisted that we try Orangette’s Brussels Sprouts. We were sold.

Since then we have become Brussels Sprouts fiends.  We’ve tried them every which way and while not all of the ways are blog-worthy they are almost always delicious.  Despite all of our experimenting, we keep coming back to Orangette’s recipe — cause if it ain’t broke…then you know the rest.

If you try it her way you will not be disappointed, but the recipe below reflects a few changes that, believe it or not, actually make it healthier!  Don’t be fooled.  That wasn’t our original intention, but it works out well for us.  So, here goes:

 

Barely Braised Brussels Sprouts

1 lb Brussels Sprouts

1/4 cup cream

2 tbsp butter

1/2 tsp sea salt

Melt the butter in a sautee pan that you can cover.  Fry up the brussels sprouts.  Get them good and brown on all sides.  Add the salt, pour in the cream and cover for about 10 minutes.  Mmmmhmmmm.

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We blame our other friends for our second unhealthy recipe.  See, it isn’t our fault, Moms!  A likes bananas in everything.  Z can usually take them or leave them. But he’ll take them if they are like this…

 

Banana Icecream for Banana-Haters

4 bananas

4 tbsp nutella

Peel the bananas and cut into large chunks.  Freeze them for just about than two hours (the timing here is actually pretty important, as our little blender that couldn’t found out — perhaps if you have a stronger one it will be a non-issue).  Place frozen bananas in a blender with the Nutella and blend.

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Our banana-hating friend gave us this recipe to prove to Z that bananas were in fact edible.  If you are like him, Z says it’s worth a try. For all the banana-lovers who need no further convincing, what are you waiting for?

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