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I’ll be honest, I considered not posting this recipe. Why? Because it didn’t turn out so green. But it was a) too awesome not to share and b) if you can’t figure out that brussels sprouts are meant to be green then you should maybe crawl out from under your rock.
I’m posting it anyway.
In life I am a huge fan of green foods. It probably isn’t normal that I get overly excited about brussels sprouts and kale literally makes my heart flutter, but there are worse issues in the world to have. So I have a green food fetish…whatevs.
At the same time, I have come to discover that certain foods are not meant to be green. I’m looking at you green beer!
Let’s rewind to St. Patty’s Day 2010. I somehow had missed the boat on green beer in my prior 21 years and was determined to make up for it in one day. This my friends was a bad idea. In hindsight, the disasters that followed had absolutely nothing to do with the green beer, but I’m blaming it anyway.
You see I had a sidekick join me for my St. Patty’s Day Binge-drinkingfest. ESeids paid me a visit from SF and for having travelled all the way to Montreal to see me I knew I had to show her a good time. Fortunately I didn’t have to try hard since the entire McGill ghetto (yes this is what we call it) was out to play. We drank our green beers, gorged ourselves on pizza and passed out by 5:00 PM. GTs….
But then ESeids got sick. And no, we’re not talking alcohol sick, we’re talking THE STOMACH FLU. Which unfortunately terrorized her for 24 hours. I played nurse as best as I could and crossed my fingers so hard that I wouldn’t catch it. Despite it being clear that the green beer didn’t cause it, we blamed it anyway and vowed to never drink it again.
48 hours later, I was in the clear. Phew. ESeids had recovered and it was time to start raging once more. Apparently I’ve accumulated some bad karma because a few hours later I was hit hardcore by the stomach flu at a Calvin Harris concert. Let me tell you, the last thing you ever want to experience is the stomach flu at a rave. I can’t even begin to explain how this was one of the worst nights of my life. So I won’t.
Let’s just say the memory still haunts me in my dreams and green beer has been added alongside bacon to my foodie-hate list. Never again.
Roasted Rosemary Brussels Sprouts w/ Blueberries
Prep Time:Â 10 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Ingredients (Serves: 4)
- 2 lbs brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved
- 1 pint blueberries
- 3 T fresh rosemary, chopped
- 1.5 T olive oil
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2. In a large bowl combine brussels sprouts, HALF of blueberries, and rosemary.
3. Top with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Stir so all brussels sprouts and blueberries are coated.
4. Spread evenly on a parchment or silicone-lined baking sheet.
5. Sprinkle with sea salt.
6. Bake for 15 mins.
7. Remove from oven and flip over.
8. Bake for another 10 mins.
9. Remove from oven and add in remainder of blueberries.
10. Serve warm.
Any St. Patrick’s Day horror stories? What about bad food associations?
*Don’t forget you have up till Friday to post your GREEN recipe to be included in The Great St. Patrick’s Day Green Link-Up!
This is such a weird combo that I never would’ve thought of putting together… but now that I’m hearing/seeing it together… I want to try it!!!
Never would have thought to pair them together, but blueberries and brussels sprouts sound amazing! especially with rosemary. blueberries + rosemary is epic.
We called Queen’s housing area the “ghetto” too- run down houses with garbage everywhere. What an awesome area!
Green beer was never a thing in my life, and after hearing your story, I certainly won’t be testing it out!
I had the most amazing brussel sprouts in vegas and have been craving them since. We did make them once. Yum! I also have some delish blueberries in my fridge. Not a combo I ever would have thought to try but looks like fun!
Ugh hearing that story is bringing back my own memories… my college had an “Unofficial” St. Patrick’s day each year and lets just say somehow we managed to have a cop, three random boys, and a giant flaming torch in our apartment senior year all at the same time. Still not sure how any of us survived the night.
But anyways green beer aside this looks like an interesting combo, in the best of ways of course 😉 at the least I may have to try it for the sweet and salty factor.
What an interesting combo! I’m down to try it though. I’m like you- I love green foods! Nothing wrong with that!
Love this story lol. I can’t believe you just posted this recipe because this past saturday night, I went out for dinner (at a BYOB place you’d be obsessed with) and had roasted brussels with strawberries and they were SO (shockingly) good and I imagine this is just the same. Also, if you have some spare time and feel like whipping up a healthy hamantashen recipe in honor of purim approaching (hi from your rabbi-friend), I would most certainly try it out! I’ve been on a quest to find one… LOVE YOU FOUR MORE DAYS
ANSOOOOOO 1. There is so much more to this story and I will fill you in on all the deets on FRIDAY (sorry Eseids!) 2. Where is this restaurant??! I need strawbs and brussels in my face now. 3. Ugh why can’t hamentaschen be green?! Only posting green recipes this week…lame. 4. Check out Elana’s pantry for all kinds of Jewish Healthy Goodness (https://www.elanaspantry.com/chocolate-raspberry-hamantaschen/) also Lexi’s Clean Kitchen is gonna be doing a bunch of passover recipes. She also happens to be Mike Davidson’s girlfriend (smallest world ever) and she’s also totally legit. 5)SEE YOU SO FREAKING SOON I COULD PEE MYSELF.
Oh mannnn…..That does sound like a nightmare. *shiver* As I’m eating nothing but green food right now— avocado toast, brussels sprouts, spinach.
I have a bad association with the green Marie Callendar’s frozen chicken pot pie box and the green chair on which I ate it, because that resulted in the worst food poisoning/stomach flu of my life. I’ve reconciled with the green chair because it’s super comfy, but not the Marie Callendar. Not at all.
I love brussels sprouts but I would have never thought to have put blueberries with them! I am excited to give this recipe a try.
blueberries and Brussels? that’s a new one — hello cancer kickers!
No bacon?!
These look good – I love stuff with rosemary.
And, I cannot (nor do I want to) imagine getting the stomach bug at a huge concert/rave – poor thing!!!