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The older I get\u2014and the more work I have to do on the days before and after Thanksgiving\u2014the simpler I like to make Thanksgiving. My sister-in-law Leigh and I will experiment a bit over the weekend, once the holiday is over. She wants to play with pastry. I want to make some lovely potato buns my friend Sandy makes every year.<\/span><\/p>\n But on Thanksgiving itself we\u2019ll have a simple meal and let the turkey shine. Turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, sweet potatoes, a green vegetable, perhaps a little mashed potato \u2026 and a salad.<\/span><\/p>\n I first encountered Brussels sprouts in a salad a few years back at the home of my cousins Alan and Jane. As I have written before here<\/a>, I don\u2019t care for boiled sprouts. They fill the house with an icky cabbage-y smell and take on a depressingly sodden texture.<\/span><\/p>\n When roasted or saut\u00e9ed or used raw (as they are here), however, they smell fine, taste better, and have a satisfyingly crunchy texture. Lauren Zenzie on Mass Appeal<\/em> scooped up what was left of the salad after we made it on the air for her lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n A note about vinegar: I go back and forth between cider vinegar and red-wine vinegar in this recipe. The cider version is more autumnal; the wine vinegar gives the salad dressing a bit more tang.<\/span><\/p>\n We also made my cranberry-apple crisp<\/a> for dessert on the air. I\u2019m having trouble uploading the videos, but you may watch them here if you wish: Brussels-Sprouts Salad<\/a> and Cranberry-Apple Crisp<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Happy Thanksgiving! May all your sprouts be crunchy\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n Brussels Sprouts Salad<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n 16 Brussels sprouts Instructions:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Trim the Brussels sprouts; then slice them with a knife or shred them with a food processor or a mandoline.<\/span><\/p>\n Combine the sprouts, the celery, the onion bits, the cranberries, and the apple pieces. Mix the remaining ingredients into a dressing, and toss half of the resulting dressing onto the salad, adding more dressing if needed. Serves 8.<\/span><\/p>\n The photo is a bit fuzzy, but you should get the idea!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The older I get\u2014and the more work I have to do on the days before and after Thanksgiving\u2014the simpler I like to make Thanksgiving. My sister-in-law Leigh and I will experiment a bit over the weekend, once the holiday is over. She wants to play with pastry. I want to make some lovely potato buns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,17,38,42],"tags":[95,1990,388,1643],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12283,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions\/12283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1\/2 cup finely chopped celery
\n1\/2 small red onion, chopped
\n1\/2 cup dried cranberries (more if you like)
\n6 to 8 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
\n2 small apples (or 1 large apple), cored and sliced (optional but delicious)
\n1 cup mayonnaise
\n2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon raw honey
\n3 tablespoons red wine vinegar (or cider vinegar)<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Sprouts-in-bowlweb.jpg\")