Sprouts

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Is this the year when Mumsnetters finally admit that they are little balls of disgustingness.

You're grown adults. You don't HAVE to eat them. You can enjoy food.

Also stop using them to ruin bacon

Love them with Parmesan

I would choose them over all other vegetables. Absolutely love sprouts.

Get the little ones and don't overcook them. I didn't like sprouts until I was in my forties!

This.

I am ridiculously excited for my sprouts with bacon tomorrow.

I would go so far as to say they are the second best part of Christmas Dinner the first being cocktail sausages...

But you have to have 'just one' it's the law 😜

Love a nice roasted sprout yummy yummy!

I love sprouts.
not boiled to mush though. but roasted.
with butter, breadcrumbs, cinnamon.
or shredded in a salad.

Mm, sprouts. I don't put bacon on them. Just lightly salted with butter. They're frozen button sprouts, so they cook through quickly, and no stripping, quartering etc involved. Don't go thinking we're having them because we "have to" - we don't eat anything we don't fancy. We have a nice leg of lamb lined up, as turkey just isn't a treat for us.

DS1 used to refer to them as "the dreaded sprouts" when he was small. Now he serves them up for Christmas dinner, and certainly eats his share! Probably because DIL does them just right. DIL does most things just right. And DS1 does the rest. We're going to theirs on Boxing Day and will almost certainly be treated to - more roast lamb! (And sprouts.)

My mother used to massacre sprouts and every other green vegetable by boiling them into submission, not to say oblivion, bless her.

Sprout cheese, like cauliflower cheese. I made up a massive dish of this one year and ate the whole thing

Ah sorry op, love sprouts at Christmas 🥰

It's good to get confirmation that 81% of Mumsnetters clearly can't be trusted with an opinion 😛

I'm 53 and have yet to eat a Brussels sprout. Not even a nibble. The smell of them cooking has put me off them and I can't see that changing. On the other hand, sprouts (and brassicas generally) are highly nutritious.

This will blow your mind: I love them cooked with marmite! 😋

Sliced and pan-fried with lardons and garlic, then finished with single cream.

You can keep the rest of the dinner.

Shred them and fry with some bacon and some chestnuts and they are yummy.

Recipe...I love cabbage...I love garlic. I have both here.

Sprouts are absolutely disgusting if cooked incorrectly. Which a lot of people do. They release å chemical when cooking that is foul. You have to cook them with something that counteracts it. Lemon juice works well. Squirt them with it as you fry them and then they just taste like mini cabbages.

Roasted or fryed they are delicious, they love bacon.

Boiled or steamed mush. Vile.

We are sprout lovers here, and not just for Christmas. They go great in stir fries, slaw, potato hash, and lots of other things too. Am adding them to a sausage mac n cheese at the weekend.
It's all about how you cook them (or not in a slaw). Hated them as a child, served up as bitter mush. The modern, sweeter varieties are much better and only need to be lightly steamed.

I love sprouts. I fried some in butter and garlic with some chestnuts last night and DH and I demolished them.

Sprouts are fab, and the after-effects are extremely comical. 😁 I've even ordered an extra side portion of them at the restaurant tomorrow to go with my Christmas dinner.

Try roasted. Game changer.

It's an age and gender thing. The older and more male the person, the fewer the tastebuds they have and the more they like sprouts.

One of the best thing about hosting is I don't have to cook them as they are not permitted over my threshold.

I’m enjoying them at the moment because I have almost no sense of smell or taste (long covid). Also, I can’t smell my farts although DH has complained a bit!