Brussel Sprout Sausage Balls with Garlic Breadcrumbs - Bakemas Day 11

I realise yesterdays recipe had sausages in but I’m just too excited about these to wait.
I’m not sure how or why but I got a little bit fixated on the idea of having brussel sprouts with garlic bread crumbs and what started out as that, went on to me having a sausage epiphany and turned into these. I’ve been so excited about making these for the past week, I was delayed a day by sausage problems but they’re finally here. They actually ended up looking a lot more like scotch eggs than I thought they would, scotch brussels? It’s not got quite the same ring to it huh!
I will warn you now, these are a get your hands stuck in kind of food. They don’t take that long to make but there is quite a few steps, but they’re fun steps! I don’t know about you but I think breading food is highly enjoyable and that’s not sarcasm, plus my mum gave me a helping hand so we had a breading production line. You don’t need a production line, or 4 hands, 2 is enough, it just halves the work load so if it’s Christmas morning put the kids to work. I can't really explain how good these taste, you'll just have to take my word for it and make them yourself. The secret ingredient is broad oak farm sausages, although they're local(ish), so not the easiest for you to find but I'd urge you to use your favourite sausages not sausage meat.

These would be perfect with Christmas dinner, especially if the little ones don’t like brussel sprouts they might just be open to trying them because really this is 50% sausage. Alternatively you could just eat a plate of them, that would be my preference.

Sweet Potato & Brussel Sprout Salad with Bacon, Blue Cheese & Pecans - Bakemas Day 5

It’s 11:17pm and I just sat down to write this post. It’s awfully convenient that the day I have little to no time to write is the day I have not a lot to say, if you can’t feel the sarcasm dripping from the sentence I’ll just subtly point it out. So I have good reasons for not getting round to it until now and no I wasn’t procrastinating, although that does sound like something I would do. I spent the day sewing then at a family gathering and I just assumed I’d be back about 8-9ish but here we are 11:30, I would much rather be curled up with a hot chocolate watching a film or even in bed but the show must go on, I’m on a bakemas mission. So brussel sprouts, are we yay or nay? Are they like marmite you either love them or you hate them? I remember not liking them as a child, however I’m not sure if that’s because they have the whole stigma surrounding them so I never really gave them a chance or if my baby taste buds couldn’t handle them. I think brussel sprouts are a little like coffee, the majority of people could like it if they work out how they like it, that’s code for embellish and it’ll probably taste good and you’ll eventually learn to like it on its own. My mum makes a brussel sprout and bacon salad for Christmas, which seems to be quite a popular Christmas day side dish, but I decided it just needed more. This could easily be used as a side or a main but I’ll warn you now picking at this salad is a problem. I ended up picking at it so much that by the time I sat down to eat dinner I wasn’t even hungry.