Wonderful. I agree with him!

We learned that one in preschool too, and it is a gem.

I just tried to post and it would only show one line of text, what's up with that? So anyway, we LOVE them but don't know anyone else that does. Especially the little baby ones, cut in half, roasted with olive oil, salt, lemon pepper and garlic. They actually get sweet when roasted.

This is a lesson for us on the CF too. Someone (not naming names) "yucked" my family's third generation cherished recipe...and I didn't really share it just a picture of it. It still hurts and caused me to back off the CF for awhile.

I'm so sorry to hear that, mustangs! I hope that you are doing well.... I'd love to see you posting more again.

Not trying to get into hot topics here. That principle should be for our political system to follow.

There has been too too too much yucking by all sides. Very damaging.

dcarch

I agree, we've been saying "don't yuck my yum" for years here on CF, but sometimes we forget. I often say that taste is subjective, not objective, so many things that nearly everyone else likes, I do not.

I do love Brussels Sprouts, though, nearly any way I've ever tried them, including just boiled!

Cathy, I don't know about your family's recipe, but I can tell you that I and my family love the Fig and Proscuitto salad. I'm not crazy about lettuce/arugula/radicchio, but I love it made with fresh baby spinach, and just like that, it becomes a really big "YUM"!

As Dishesdone used to say "Happy Everything to Everyone"...

Annie

Next to spinach, Brussels sprouts are my favorite green vegetable!! I prefer to restrict them to winter, as winter harvested sprouts tend to be sweeter (cold weather condenses the sugars). I like them just about any way - oven roasted, sautéed with bacon or pancetta or steamed with a butter, lemon and mustard sauce. I even like the frozen ones you get from the supermarket. I don't care for them raw however - my nephew makes a salad of shaved sprouts and I would much prefer to have them cooked. btw, roasted but chilled sprouts make a great salad, specially when tossed with a balsamic vinaigrette.

But they do tend to be an acquired taste. Since I dislike okra, I would never fault anyone for not liking sprouts :-))

Great motto - thanks for sharing that!

& I like both okra & Brussels Sprouts = )

How cute of the 4 yr old....young kids are so sincere and honest!!

Thanks for sharing...

I yuck my own yum all the time. Constantly tasting and improvising as often i can make something better but many times fail. Finding a solution is part of the fun.

I've loved brussels since a young one. Always have. Any way prepared. Shaved raw is ok but shaved and quickly tossed with other bitters like radicchio, escarole, etc in a hot pan for a brief minute or two turns them into a slightly sweet warm salad. Removes the raw bitter taste.

A tomato, IndigoRose, is a horrid spitter, though gorgeous in the garden. One of the first to fruit in the early summer. Never ripens for weeks. Awful and no flavor ever...so i tested using it as a small stuffer with an herbed goat cheese and baked for just a short time. Amazing what a bit of heat did to transform that horrid nothingness. Made a couple dozen this past August and were gone in seconds.

Like raw onions that can be overpowering, once given some heat are sweet and creamy.

I'm in a minority liking savory over sweet. So i'm guilty of yucking added sugars over naturally occurring sugars in veg and fruits. Can't even look at a fresh pineapple without a cringe. ew. Sick sweet to me.

I'm 'yucked' all the time. Love scrapple. My favorite pizza has clams, lol.

I stack my food as i like the protein juices and what it is cooked in to flavor the rice or starch while resting. Always have. Some dislike that and separate on a plate.

Regional cooking is brought to us from families and tradition. Generations. We embrace our own regional cooking but have a hard time loving the flavors of others. : ). My best friend is Swedish and her husband is mid-western. He dis-likes all but the most mild seafood. She wants, loves, and craves ga-stink-da-fish-ski.

No problem here yucking my yum. I cleared a room with my black radish pickles last year. Smelled of rotting garbage. Delicious but even i was taken a bit back at the stench. I highly recommend never putting black radish in any pickle.

I started keeping a list of recipes to try and mustang's Fig and Proscuitto salad is going right on it!!!

Yuck someone else's yum....so funny, and new to me. I'll probably bore everyone to death using it now ;0)

And I do like brussels sprouts, even shaved and raw - although I will admit they can be a little bitter that way and DH isn't interested in uncooked. I'd bought the Costco Super 7 salad a couple of times and had been enjoying it, he then complained about the brussels sprouts that he will eat simmered, and loves roasted.

But many 'others yums' appear this time of year to my thinking - pickled salmon is not a treat to me. Nor is smoked, or almost anything smoked if its not a turkey.

Sleevendog, I'm in your minority. Give me savory or salty, but please don't serve me something even loaded with carrots that will sweeten the dish. If I want sweet, and don't often, I'll share dessert with you but I want my stews and soups savory.

That is a very clever phrase, and, while I have occasionally gone down the yuck path, I do try to do what it says. :) Having just posted specifically to ask for yucks vs. yums, I was very happy to hear the yucks as they warned me off of a potential mistake I didn't have time to make. :)

As for adults, however, I think there's a middle line, as with so many things. One can be informative without being pejorative. If the OP had said, "Your grandmother is taking my Brussels sprouts because she's fond of them and I don't care for them," there's no yuck or yum, but there's no introduction of contentiousness into mere vegetables.

Ah, the honesty of a young one. I like pretty much everything and Brussels sprouts are at the top of my list. I've only had Rutabaga once and didn't like it. I will try it again some day as it may have been an exception. There may have been something wrong with the one I bought.

Madonna

As the OP, Brussels sprouts are the only cruciferous vegetable I don't like. From the first time my mother tried to pawn them off on me as baby cabbages, to a recent 5 course dinner that had a warm BS, dried cranberry and walnut salad. I try them every couple of years with the same outcome, YUCK.

Out of the mouths of babes lol.

Madonnna, I love rutabagas, but can't get past the sulphur of Brussels sprouts. :) I have the same problem with other cabbages, but not as intensely. The thing about rutabagas is that they have to be made nicely. Some recipes for them that I've seen recently are ghastly. Try just roasting some cubes with a little light olive oil. I recently made rutabaga, zucchini and scallion latkes that were fantastic. They're great roasted or simmered with other roots like parsnips, celeriac, etc., and a little dried fruit (I make tsimmis that way). But you just might not like them. :)

Oh! And Jasdip uses them instead of turnips in her "turnip puff".

I also love rutabaga, as well as turnips and brussels sprouts. I can only think of three vegetables I don't care for, those are okra, lettuces and the big mealy kind of lima bean. Everything else in the vegetable catagory? Give me seconds!

Annie