Made brussels sprouts chips again. Great application for mania.

For each sprout, cut the tough bottom, discard. Remove loose leaves, to a bowl. If sprout is still dark green, or much bigger than the others, slice another bit off the bottom, remove newly-loosened outer leaves. Put tip and leaves in bowl. When you have a small pale-green sprout, stop, go onto the next sprout.

This takes hours but is oddly satisfying.

You end up, from the bigger bag of sprouts, with a huge bowl of leaves and a small pile of similarly-sized, pale green, sprouts. Or, just keep going. You end up with an immense bowl of leaves. Takes forever. So satisfying.

For the leaves, in the bowl I sprinkled garlic powder, lots of fresh-ground green and white pepper, and a lot of salt. Added some avocado oil, and with gloves, spent a long time massaging oil and all into individual leaves. (I told you it took mania.) Heat broiler and sheet pan, broil 1-2 mn at a time. Eat the crunchy ones, stir the rest around, repeat. By the time the last ones are dark and crunchy you will have eaten the while bag of sprouts.

It has to be garlic powder. Garlic is too wet.

Or, put the dark ones in the serving bowl, and share.