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Ok, no one wants to eat Brussels sprouts in summer. I get it. When you have delicious, good-for-just-a-season vegetables like zucchini, eggplant and tomatoes to choose from… well, let’s just say I wouldn’t blame you for making ratatouille every night (I’ve been tempted).

Still, summer is also about simplicity. Some nights, all you need is a refreshing beer, a good hamburger and a pile of easy slaw. Enter this Brussels sprouts slaw from Art & Lemons. I made it last week as a side dish – it couldn’t have been easier, coming together in about a minute, with a short list of ingredients that were, to use that most overused of recipe phrases, “more than the sum of its parts.”

I have only one note on the recipe, and that is this: substitutions are strongly discouraged (seriously – raisins will not work as well as dried cranberries here, no matter how added-sugar-adverse you are). Besides that, the recipe? Foolproof. Which – after a few too many refreshing beers – comes in handy.