No sprouts!

I've heard that frozen sprouts are mushy and tasteless. Can someone tell me I'm wrong ?
Any particular brand you'd recommend please.

I didn't need to parboil the sprouts as they went in the oven with pork, potatoes and honey roasted carrots so I would have used an extra pan and more fuel. The prep was fiddly though.

I buy Sainsbury's frozen sprouts and they are not mushy so long as you time them carefully.

The ones I roasted weren't frozen - I'm not sure that would work - would it?

Yes there are tinned sprouts here in France also sprout soup, I love sprouts but think the soup may be a step too far.
Esspee - ban sprouts, your days are numbered the SPCS will be hot on your trail

I use frozen and usually just give them 3 or 4 minutes in the microwave. I like them to still crunch! I just microwave for one minute if I am going to stir fry. They are frozen so soon after picking they are fresher than fresh but need less cooking due to extra water content.
(So on mine don't go on until late November ?)

The little frozen (not dozen) button sprouts I buy are delicious (if you like sprouts that is) but we like them quite firm and still with a bit of bite to them . Nothing worse than mushy sprouts . Even more delicious stir fried in the wok with a few chopped chestnuts.

I had shunned frozen sprouts until my friend served them at lunch one day and I thought they were rather nice. They weren't mushy. She cooked them in the microwave. I thought I might get some because I like sprouts and DH hates them.

I was wondering what dozen sprouts were! So small that you could fit 12 in your mouth at once?

I like them just done, not crunchy and definitely not mushy. When I was out for a meal last Christmas at a rather posh hotel they served broccoli which was definitely still crunchy, I put my fork on it to try to cut it, the broccoli resisted and shot off my plate across the table complete with its accompaniment of gravy

Haha!

Can't remember if that was before or after the glass of red wine got knocked over into the dish of carrots

A friend of ours make sprout soup and says it is delicious.I haven't tried it, or tried frozen sprouts either.

I have not been back there since

Jalima you must take more water with it in future.

Sprouts ! 'Are they made of ear wax' asked my nephews underwhelmed by my cooking.

I hadn't even started on the , I was just explaining something and 'talking with my hands'.

frozen veg for our family - including sprouts. grandaughter 2 loves them and would eat all of them if she could! however the rest of us content ourselves with three or four [small ones].
enough time is spent on cooking on christmas day so we feel justified in eating frozen veggies - tend not to make bubble and squeak anyway!

I cook mine so they have a crunch and then sprinkly parmesan cheese on them. Lovely but won't be having any out here this year, though we are going to have a Christmas dinner at a the local eating place and it has been said that we may even ge having a christmas pud.

The ones I buy are small Jalima but a dozen in one go might be pushing it. Mind you my DGC would easily eat a dozen and still ask if there were any left!

Slight change of subject..... well not sprouts anyway. I bought some multicoloured carrots at the weekend (orange, purple and yellow) and can't wait to give them to DGC for dinner tonight. We always have a Sunday-Monday dinner and I look forward to their reaction, although I hope they don't like them too much. They were a bit pricey and I happened to get them cheap.

Still have sprouts in our garden and they have done better this year than ever before, straight from the garden they only need about 3 mins to cook and are sweet and crisp. My favorite with Xmas lunch is red cabbage, cooked with cinemmon and red currant jelly.

Ddil calls them devil's testocles and D's makes here eat three before she can have anything else - the sadist!
We have tried growing them but they never get bigger than a pea. Can't say I'm heartbroken.

DH and I both love sprouts, steamed then tossed in melted butter and grated nutmeg. Really liking the idea of roasted frozen ones, definitely going to give that a try.

We are going to DH's daughter (can I call her DS-D? She is!) for Christmas Day and I doubt we'll have sprouts as her husband hates them. He and DGDs (9 and 6) are going to do the cooking. We are living in hope but will be keeping the indigestion tablets handy.

I'm with Hilltopgran, I absolutely adore red cabbage but I'm the only one, so I make a batch and freeze it in single portions to enjoy as and when.

My DGC call them little green farts pumps.

If I never saw a sprout again it would be too soon.

Love sprouts and eat them all year round. Mum even swears by sprout sandwiches with leftovers! She said "don't knock it until you've tried it!"

Be thankful, be VERY thankful if you cannot get your hands on the tiny green stinkbombs! The biological fall-out from these oddities of the veg world is just not worth it.

AND either they are cooked to a wallpaper-paste mush or not cooked nearly enough and are still semi-raw. Furthermore, I often find they have an almost acrid aftertaste. It must be either the particular variety (are there named varieties of sprouts?) or just me......

I's sooner substitute chestnut mushrooms any day!