A question for you, do you like Brussel Sprouts?  Or HATE them?  If you answered yes to the former, then the latest recipe from Amanda should be of interest to you!  If you answered yes to the HATE THEM question, well guess what, this recipe is REALLY for you!  I made this recipe last night and even K admited that they were not so bad.  (You have to understand that she grew up eating traditionally overcooked, over boiled mushy Brussel Sprouts made by her Dutch Oma so the girl is scarred!)

Hopefully you will give this recipe a try either way.  I highly recommend trying the recipe both ways (ah YES! this is about healthy cooking right?!?)  At the bottom of the recipe Amanda has give us her newest updated change to make the recipe healthier…unfortunately it replaces the bacon…mmmm bacon…um heh yeah, sorry about that, I just love Bacon!

Also at the bottom of the article is the “official” Amanda Freeland Bio!  So please read it, as it is much more informational than my attempt. Read the rest of this entry

Let me say that when I first read the title to this recipe I went, “Ewwwww”.  Yet I have professed that I will try anything, once.  This recipe is not only easy to make, it tastes INCREDIBLE!  Let me preface this by saying that the chef who is supplying me with her healthy living recipes is Amanda Freeland.  Amanda is the wife to one of my best friends Ernest Freeland (who owns the Crofton Bike Doctor in Gambrills/Crofton MD).

Let me tell you something about Amanda.  I am working with her to create a bio, but until then you get to get my insights to her life (at least the parts that matter for cooking and health!).  When I met Amanda, she was not in the greatest health and wanted to change this.  Yet unlike many of us, Amanda had an excuse for not having the best of health…as she is a trained Pastry Chef.  I personally can only imagine the health I would have if I was a Pastry Chef.  In the words of Ernest, “When she’s baking cakes, I feel like I’m getting fat just sitting here on the couch smelling the aromas.”  It’s sooo true.  Her cakes, cookies, confections, and sweets are AMAZING.  Yet, her skills in the kitchen don’t stop with pastries, no they go on through to the full course of a meal.  I have eaten foods (like the recipe below) that I would have rather died before consuming.  Yet, she has opened my eyes to new worlds of food and culinary delights.

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