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Cheddar & Mixed Sprouts Omelet

Leftover mixed sprouts have impelled me to come up with creative ways to use them

Leftover mixed sprouts have impelled me to come up with creative ways to use them

Sprouts are not a common ingredient in my recipes or even usual food ideas. But when I but some to be just to be more of a decorative flourish to a recent dish, because of the only size container of fresh sprouts I could find (and mixed sprouts at that), I had a great majority of them leftover from that initial dish.

So being inspired by a suggestion to use them for smoothies — a delicious revelation, as it turns out — I’ve been enjoying finding other ways to condition myself to give them more culinary regard.

This morning, I saw fit to add flavor, rustically floral aromatics, and textural counterbalance so an oozy, robustly sharp cheddar cheese omelet, where they successfully made each bite thoroughly enjoyable in a way previously unimagined.

Sprouts are now included in my principal epicurean think tank, and are no longer relegated to the more innocuous purpose of (highly) photogenic afterthought.