I love peas and can happily tuck into a big bowl, but my favourite vegetables are Brussels sprouts. I talk about them so much that my fans call themselves Sam's Sprouts.
My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower.
My perfect last meal would be: shrimp cocktail, lasagna, steak, creamed spinach, salad with bleu cheese dressing, onion rings, garlic bread, and a dessert of strawberry shortcake.
If you want to get really crazy, Brussels sprouts love cured pork. Crisp up some bacon, pancetta, or chorizo in a skillet; save the crisp bits; use the fat to roast the sprouts; then toss them together with the meat when they come out of the oven.
When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.
We lived near a supermarket, and whatever they threw away, we would get it, and my mother would make soup. Or she would get a big can of lard, a big can of meal, a big can of flour, a big can of beans, and fix the same meal for months.
My favorite meal to make is seared ahi, and my wife does the most amazing pear salad.
Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
Honestly, I'm not a big fan of having a salad before a meal.
Ninety-five percent of all brussels sprouts come from California.
If it's a healthy day, I'll head to the gym, then have a steak salad at the cafe next door.
I can't think of anything I can't stand the taste of less than brussels sprouts.
Thinly slicing even the bulkiest vegetables, like cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, or cabbage, then aggressively cooking them in a hot skillet and finishing with a shower of spices means they cook and develop flavor super quickly.
Salad isn't a meal. Salad's the stuff that comes with a meal.
Brussels sprouts are misunderstood - probably because most people don't know how to cook them properly.
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.