Now is about the time to put the pan on, boil the water then drop the green demon in if you like then like my OH :(

I prefer them small nutty and firm with butter and black pepper :)

Parp oh excuse me ;)

My kids (now all adults)  well the eldest would eat anything that moves so no problem there, the middle one would eat them because mummy cooked them and the youngest called them
lurkers cos every time he moved something on his plate another was was lurking :)

So who loves em who hates em and whose got some good recipes besides boiled or steamed?

I love them eat them all the year round :-)

Once shredded them and stir fried them with bacon and a bit of nutmeg

Sounds tasty to me as I prefer them less cooked, I'll have to try that on OH and convince him that sprout mash is not best eating.

We love them - eat them all the time :) I like them just plain, but have cooked them with bacon as well.

I prefer them still quite crisp, the stir fryed with bacon sounds really nice will give it a try.
As a child I hated them but then my mother ' God love her ' did rather boil them to mush !!! But over the years  I have developed a taste for them so will have a couple, but still not my favourite veg.

">But over the years  I have developed a taste for them so will have a couple, but still not my favourite veg.

I guess they are an aquired taste and one that comes with age, when it dawns on us that they're good for us despite the parp parp parp or is that just me :-D

I have only recently acquired a taste for them and don't mind them plain but I do prefer them lightly parboiled and then pan fried with pancetta and chestnuts. 

">lightly parboiled and then pan fried with pancetta and chestnuts.

Now that sounds like a good Xmas alternative ta :)

Love them eat them raw in a salad, stir fried and even boiled with chestnuts and sprinkled with crisped up streaky.

we do the panchetta and chestnuts too, though I confess to leaving the sprouts in the serving dish LOL

Lynn

Ooooh mmmm.... nom nom.

Last year was terrible for sprouts - in this stupid village/town hybrid I live in there are NO greengrocers, so all fruit & veg HAS to come from Tescos (grump moan whinge) - yet we have 2 butchers, 4 bakers and 24 candlestick makers (no we don't really, but you could find loads of them in the next town: clue is in the name, Glastonbury).

All the snow last year ruined the sprouts, so for once I was glad of the frozen variety. Well not really glad, but they were heaps better than the minging blackened cannonballs they were flogging as Fresh in Tescos.

We used to get my sister to eat them when she was younger by telling her they were Fairy Cabbages. Obviously that won't work on boys (unless they like fairies!!!!) or any child that no longer believes in Father Christmas.

I'm happyish though - aged parent has gone from screeching at the sigh of broccoli on her plate, to corralling it with her fork, to eating fairy-bites of it, to suddenly eating it up and saying she likes it! And she even ate some sweet potato yesterday.
Hallelujah.

I like them :-) Sprinkled with a little bit of vinegar or mint sauce :-)

I cant stand them, I have one a year on Xmas day!!!
But my boys, I buy them for the boys as a treat~!!!!!!! LOL
They both have LOVED them from young. they are now 16 and 12 and still love them!!!!
I sweat I could cook a whole pack of them and they would be cleared up before the meat at dinner time and my kids are pure carnivores!!!!
Yes I think they are the only children to love sprouts!!!!
As for us, I think I may try the panchetta thingys!!
Lea :)
:)

I love sprouts (or 'farty things' as I once called them at the dinner table, only to be promptly told off :D). I like mine either plain (with a crunch to them, not boiled to death like my mam does them), or with bacon and chestnuts/walnuts. Oooooo, I really want them now!!

My daughter's boys love all veg including sprouts and have been known to come to blows over broccoli if they think someone has more than them. I never get the cucumber with a side salad if we are out together, it is always stolen lol

When first married I asked my OH if there was anything he really disliked, he said cabbage and beetroot and having met his Mums cabbage I could understand it. Now however if I say he has cabbage he is delighted his favourite is stir-fried with onion and sweet chilli sauce.

The nicest recipe I have used it lightly fry them in olive oil, garlic and smokey bacon then finish off by slowly simmer off in white wine. It takes the bitterness away and gives a lovely deep nutty smokey flavour .

> by telling her they were Fairy Cabbages

LOL :) When my children were small, it was Postman Pat Cabbages :)

Whistler eats them raw!! your post made me have a tear - my Mum boiled them to death and we said she put them on in September - memories eh/ she's been dead nearly 7 years.

Any way steamed aldente then dressed with bacon bits, when finished after lunch best in bubble and squeak!!

I dont like them never have but I always have two to show willing, the boys and OH pile them up but I like them in bubble and squeak!!!

Jake spits them out raw or cooked - fussy BC.

Some great recipe idea's and some lovely sprouty stories, who would have thought the humble green lurker could have such an effect ;)

Apparently as a toddler i loved them and would eat a bowlful allon their own :-O
Went off them for a few years...not surprising really and have grown to like them again in the last few years. They are ok on their own but prefer them with mint sauce or with crispy bacon lardons at Xmas.
My Dad used to tell me a youngster that i had to eat them 'cos they put hairs on your chest' :-)

Funny Nanny said they would make my hair curl or was that Crusts on toast!!!

oh yes, crusts for curly hair and carrots to see in the dark. Mum always said 'you never see a rabbit wearing glasses' lol

i hate them! i used to have to sit at the table and wasnt allowed down until i had eaten them so i had to hold my nose to eat them and it made me gag.
i have never tried them since!
yuk

Love them, especially when they're done in a white sauce with nutmeg

Considering I don't like most vegetables, I actually do quite like sprouts, I only have them at Christmas but am happy to have a few on my plate along with the roast potatoes! :-)

Love sprouts and they're one of the vegetables I prefer to eat seasonally - they really go with winter meats.  I like them boiled and served whilst still firm, and bright green.  Leave them too long and you get that school dinners smell

My kids both adore sprouts and my son always says no one cooks enough of them. Grandma apparently never serves enough - despite him attempting to educate her! :)  Last year when I was preparing them I checked how many he wanted - he replied "13"!  He ate them all too and came back for the same amount on Boxing Day...

I've still got a dozen or more sprout 'trees' in the garden waiting to be harvested - have to be called trees because far too big to be just plants !!

I love sprouts too somenice ideas here that I havnt tried nom nom :)

I remeber weeping with a plate of crusts saying I didnt want curley hair!!! Nanny dipped hers in her tea!!

I like sprouts and use them year round. Have you tried the purple variety? they are IMO much nicer. Grew some ourselves this year and I too have sprout trees in the garden !! Lightly steamed with a bit of bite and nestling next to honey roast parsnips for me !
Aileen