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Weekend Rewind: 5.24.10 (better late than never)

I have been off work since last Thursday and have pretty much just been vegging and enjoying the family. So today, I have just a few random thoughts from this weekend for ya.

UNO: I didn’t know Someone on Twitter corrected my spelling of Brussels sprouts and gave me a snippet of background. Who knew? Apparently not me. I confess it took me looking at the tweet about 12 times before I realized the whole point was that I had spelled it incorrectly. <sigh>

huh. how 'bout

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Brussel Sprouts: Initial Success!

Remember these little guys?

not afraid of you anymore, tiny cabbages.

It probably seems like I am a tad obsessed with trying to like our friend, the brussel sprout. And maybe I am. See, this is really the only vegetable I don’t care for. But even though the taste isn’t my thing, there are a million reasons to love them. According to whfoods.com (great website, by the way, and a really great book too), our little green buddies are:

low in calories…a cup only has about

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Weekend Rewind: May 16

Whew! Wow, what a week. First of all, I need to do a little happy dance *shuffle*kick*wiggle*waggle* because I won the Blanqi giveaway over at The Busy Budgeting Mama! Let me just say that I am insanely, ridiculously excited about this giveaway because I had been planning to buy one in each color when the two pink lines next show up for us. When I showed Sean the extreme deliciousness of the Blanqi, there was a little “rawr” and then the suggestion… “you should get the black one“.

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Need to Hear from You + Giveaway

So this weekend I’m hoping to whip out the very first Adventures on Veggies and I need to hear from you. Talk to me about brussel sprouts, people. I’m not gonna lie…I’m terrified of those nasty green little buggers, and I need some solid advice, recipes, funny stories and anything else you’ve got to throw my way in preparation. Clearly they’re fantastic for you, so somebody out there must have something to share.

seriously. i can't write about them without you. hit me up with

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Adventures in Veggies

Delicious veggie shots taken at our local Market District grocery store just this afternoon.

True confession time. I like the idea of vegetables much more than I actually like the real thing.

Don’t get me wrong, there are so many that I like…spinach, broccoli, lettuces, peppers, asparagus, beans, peas, squash, cauliflower, tomatoes (don’t start with your fruit talk), etc, etc. But I have spent much of the past, oh, DECADE, in a veggie rut. I buy the same ones over and over and I prepare them exactly the same

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