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Brussel sprout hash

Apr 23rd, 2012
by ben.
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Brussel Sprout Hash

Date: 4/19/2012

Recipe:

  • 1 small sweet potato, diced
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 1 bunch brussel sprouts, quartered
  • 5 cloves garlic, minced
  • ~6 strips of bacon
  • shredded cheddar cheese
  • one egg per person
Cook the bacon in a skillet. Remove from pan and save the grease. Cook the sweet potato, onion, brussel sprouts, and garlic in the bacon grease. While the vegetables are cooking, chop up the cooked bacon. When the vegetables are done (or nearly done) mix the bacon back in. Turn off the heat and top the mixture with the cheddar cheese and cover the skillet to let the cheese melt.
While the cheese is melting, fry up one egg for each person. Serve the hash in a bowl/plate and top each dish with a fried egg.

Time to table: 30 minutes

Servings: 2 adults, 1 toddler

Ben: Love

Erin: Like

Annie: Dislike

Notes: This is similar to another dish I’ve made before, but it was different enough that I figured I’d post it. I absolutely love this meal and would eat it very often. I also feel that in spite of the bacon and the bacon grease, it has enough healthy components going for it to be a guilt-free meal. Annie didn’t necessarily not “like” it, as much as she just ignored it, just part of being a toddler I guess. We’re sometime dumbfounded by what she decides she doesn’t want to eat. Veggies cooked in bacon grease, with cheese, and an egg?!?!  Whatever. :)

Brussel Sprout Hash

Smoked chicken with vegetables

Jul 11th, 2011
by ben.
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Chicken, potatoes and brussel sprouts

Date: July 10th, 2011

Chicken recipe:

  • 1 whole roasting chicken
  • 1 gallon water
  • 1 cup kosher salt
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • smoker (I used an electric smoker, but a grill would also work)

Mix the water with the salt and sugar and brine the chicken for 4 hours. Fire up your smoking apparatus and smoke the chicken for 3-4 hours until done.

Vegetables recipe:

  • 1 pack of brussel sprouts
  • 1 potato
  • 4 tablespoons of butter

Dice the potato and brussel sprouts. Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the brussel sprouts and potatoes. Add salt and pepper to taste and sautee until the brusssel sprouts are done (they’ll take longer).

Time to table: 8 hours prep/smoking time, 30 minutes cooking time for vegetables

Servings: 2 adults, 1 toddler with plenty of leftover chicken for two more dinners.

Ben: Love

Erin: Like

Annie: Like

Notes: I was going to add garlic to the vegetables, but I got lazy and the frying pan was already crowded. The smoking method I used was the following:

  • electric smoker (Brinkmann 810-7080-k)
  • hickory wood chips, I had to add more every hour or so
  • I put the chicken on at 12:45 and took it off at 5:15. It rested while I cooked the veggies.

I ordered some wood chunks (as opposed to chips) on Amazon today so that I won’t need to add them to the smoker as often. My dad just got a new smoker and gave me his old one that needed a new element. The element arrived on Saturday and I smoked salmon this morning and the chicken at night, it was a great day for cooking!

I’m going to look into some vegetarian smoking/grilling options because our meat consumption will go through the roof this summer if my current interest in smoking and grilling continues at its current pace.

Smoked chicken