Jean Ann Van Krevelen's Xombytes

Listen,I dig beets...no pun intended...for some reason, I just really love them. It hasn't always been so...My first contact with beets as a child was some weird pickled beet that looked like the cranberry sauce you buy in the can and eat at Thanksgiving. I actually really like cranberry in the can at Thanksgiving...but it has to be the one that stays solid and you cut it into these crancircles and add it to the mass on your plate...but I digress...

Seriously, even I can't believe I am about to compare a brussel sprout to Shakespeare...but that's the name of these cuties...Falstaff Brussel Sprouts...I've written about them before, so you may remember that they are purple, one of the reasons I am so nutty about growing them.