[Closed] Brussel Sprouts YAY OR NAY

Yay!! Love them!

Lush!

Sprout curry is awesome

Yup, although I'm slightly concerned by the promised sprout and chestnut soup I've been told we're having on Boxing Day

It's a yay from me! 🙂

So long as they have a bit of bite, and are served with bits of bacon on

Anyone who doesnt have sprouts with christmas dinner is a terrorist sympathiser

It's a Yes from me.

Yay from me

stir fried with chorizo and served with crusty bread yes...then again i love them boiled al-dente with lots of white pepper

Yes. Steamed until just past al dente.

Excellent.

They're OK with horseradish sauce - otherwise nay

Yes

Yes, provided the ________ is in alignment with Uranus.

Guess i'm a terrorist sympathiser 😳

Least i wont be destroying the Ozone due to the toxic
emissions you odd folk will be tooting

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Sprouts are glorious!

Bleurgh

YAAAAAAAAAAY!

Nay.. Aside from being gross they only serve to amplify oppression by religious zealots.

King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well, I didn't vote for you.
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
[Angelic music plays... ]
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
Dennis: [interrupting] Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

I eat sprouts quite often tbh, have since I was a kid (my kids prefer them, having said that they eat raw spinach as a snack!! 😯

Shredded and stir fried with bacon, what's not to like.
With chestnuts in soup is also good.

Simply add sprouts and chestnuts to a kedgeree for a festive 'christmas kedgeree' (tm Sweepy)

I luvs em!

Importantly, they need to be boiled until nicely soft. Not al dente.
The boiling releases the sugars and makes them yummy sweet balls of heavennnnnnnn.

Nowt wrong wi sprouts. Sprouts are not just for Christmas you know 😉

Boiled til you can suck em through a straw..

Love them! My freezer conked out a few years ago & a bag of frozen sprouts (I know, I know) defrosted so I cooked the whole bagful & just...well, ate them!

Yay! Sprouts are ace, love 'em.

Boiled? Barf

Roasted until crispy on the outside? Oh yes!

Yay, I love eating a bowl of them 😀

Yay. Cooked till just slightly crunchy and finished with double cream.

Or stir fried for extra fart effect!

King of veg. Currently enjoying them oven roasted with olive oil and lots of salt.

Satan's gobstoppers, disgusting things, a fatwa should be put upon them.

8 minutes in the steamer, bloody marvellous.

You cook the life out of them, they're bound to be a disgusting mush.

Now I LOVE LOVE LOVE my veg but sprouts? Err no. They literally make me gag. I can't even swallow them.

No mention of frying them off with garlic & honey, you're all wrong I tell thee 🙂

Yay, love them. Al dente.

I suspect though that the spouts we eat nowadays have been hybridised to remove much of the bitterness I remember as a child. I suspect also that the nutritional value has decreased as a result.

Tom Kerridge was on the radio the other day, his idea was to wok them; to crisp the outer and the steam released to cook the inside

Love em. Got to be cooked correctly but when they are they're lovely. **** em up and they're rank.

There are a lot of foods that taste crap if you cook the badly, eggs for example. I don't get the hate for the spout, after all it's only a small cabbage.

I always hated them until my wife cooked them at Christmas many years ago. They were delicious. Cooked to perfection which makes all the difference. Slightly sweet and you can feel every layer as you bite into them. She fries them up with Pancetta nowadays which is even nicer. As much a part of our Christmas dinner as anything else. Makes stacks too as they go in the bubble and speak on boxing day.

they go in the bubble and speak on boxing day.

What are they saying? 'boil me more!'???

Used to hate them, but the problem is the way they're cooked.

Boiled - bleh. Takes the flavour (and probably goodness) out of them. Never serve them boiled.

Steam and then stick in with the roast for a bit before the end and add some of the roast juices or glaze. Come out lovely. Likewise parsnips. Steam, don't boil, and stick in with the spuds towards the end, otherwise horrible.

Yay. My favourite, in fact. Well steamed with a bit of olive oil and salt. Yum.

Yes. Steamed until just past al dente.

This thread, makes me want to join ISS. At least they wont allow sprouts (combustion hazard)

I vote for banning Christmas.

sprouts ftw

I know the stereotypical thing is that people have already put them on to boil on the first day of advent ready for christmas dinner.

I just stick them in with other roasting veg. They effectively steam until al dente. Have them quite often tbh (but cheat and have frozen ones). For chrimble dinner they get done with almonds... the bacon goes with the pigs in blankets instead.

Then the rest goes in to bubble and squeak for boxing day dinner.

****ing rank no matter whats done with them.
#bannedfrommyhouse

I vote for banning Christmas.

I think I love you!

Sprouts, vile hateful disgusting things. The veg equivalent of dog eggs!

VILE

I'm sure you could make a turd taste almost palatable if you chucked enough nice tasting stuff in with it. Which is basically what most of the sprout lovers on here seem to insist on doing.

They taste like crap, admit it.

This is from someone who hated olives, but now quite enjoys them....

Love 'em.

If boiling or steaming, do it by colour. Don't kiss their arses, that encourages water inside to make them mushy. Boil or steam until they turn bright green, that'll tell you when they're good. Then you've got options....

Drain them, add in a LARGE knob of butter and a proper grind of black pepper, put the lid on the pan and rattle them until the outer leaves loosen up or drop off.

OR

roughly chop and quickly stir fry them with some chorizo so you get nicely spiced up outsides (bacon/pancetta's good too)

OR

Roughen them a bit as above and then put in the oven to roast.

If they're mushy and/or bitter..... IT'S YOUR FAULT, YOU ****ED THEM UP!