Pre preparing sprouts.

I usually cook on the day, but last week we tried a pack from Aldi with pancetta, butter and some sort of glaze. I’ll be buying them again, when I can find them. They must have been very popular.

Chardy

Someone used to insist that sprouts tasted rubbish until after the first frost, so uncooked sprouts always go into the freezer as soon as I buy them. I've never found them bitter.

Actually, my Mum always said that, I'm not sure if she meant frozen solid or just tinged with frost, as there weren't freezers in households in those days.

Chardy In recent decades sprouts have been selectively bred to be less bitter, so I think you are unlikely to buy sprouts with a bitter taste these days.

Someone used to insist that sprouts tasted rubbish until after the first frost, so uncooked sprouts always go into the freezer as soon as I buy them. I've never found them bitter.

I ask dd1 to make ours!!

I've got a recipe for roasted sprouts that I might try.

We cook red cabbage outside, in a slow cooker.

Cook red cabbage in advance in the oven or in a slow cooker. Shut the kitchen door to the rest of the house and turn the oven hood on. Possibly go out and meet friends for coffee or some therapeutic shopping (should such a thing exist)

Shove in the freezer and reheat on the big day.

Ladyleftfieldlover

All this adding bacon, chestnuts or whatever to Brussels to make them palatable… I’d rather just have the bacon and chestnuts and chuck the Brussels in the bin!

So would I, but some in the family love them including DH. They also go mad for red cabbage which I detest so I buy M&S quickly decant and get rid of the container. It takes hours and stinks the kitchen and house out for days.

Gwyllt

I make dogs food from fresh ingredients
Callistemon21 if by consiquences you mean farting they were fine cos used to veg and I give them sprout trimmings when we eat them

Yes, and Brussells sprouts can be very moving 😁

One of our dogs loved root vegetables, carrots, swede etc, he would sit by my feet at the kitchen sink when I was peeling, hoping to catch any bits that dropped.

We are a family of brussel sprout lovers. I buy at leats three large stalks of sprouts to see the seven of us through the Christmas season. Anexpensive way to buy sprouts, but it keeps them fresh over the holiday period, otherwise I buy them loose.

Some good ideas here. Thank you all. I have Sainsbury's frozen ones in the freezer which are ok, but wanted to do something better for Christmas day.

I trim and halve them stir fry in butter and bit of olive oil until al dente. I add chopped shallot and a handful of chopped pre cooked chestnuts. I finish them off with a dusting of Parmesan and black pepper.

I make dogs food from fresh ingredients
Callistemon21 if by consiquences you mean farting they were fine cos used to veg and I give them sprout trimmings when we eat them

My m.i.l would put them on about now. Bless her .

Me too...a real favourite.

Ladyleftfieldlover

All this adding bacon, chestnuts or whatever to Brussels to make them palatable… I’d rather just have the bacon and chestnuts and chuck the Brussels in the bin!

Don't bin the sprouts, send them to me. I love them.

I'm 😲 wondering what the consequences were of the dogs eating all those sprouts, Gwyllt 😁

Husband once bought tinned sprouts. Six cans- very cheap apparently. Revolting but rinsed off dogs woofed them down

Sainsbury’s frozen button sprouts are OK. I had them with shepherd’s pie the other night as I didn’t have any fresh. Now Waitrose frozen ones are awful imo. I have a Cook’s ready to cook frozen Christmas dinner. They mix leeks with chopped sprouts so idk how that would work if you tried it yourself. I would experiment before Christmas Day.

We had sprouts tonight with mash and lamb cobbler. They were delicious! The bitterness has been bred out of them in recent years. I have frozen them in the past and they have been fine; trimmed, briefly blanched and quickly cooled.

We chop the raw sprouts up, add pancetta, season and stir fry...no par boiling. You can add chestnuts or pine nuts to taste. Always a hit...even with the veggie suspicious toddlers !

September, kittylester?? Mine have been on since June, and I’m a bit worried that they’re not going to be done in time.

All this adding bacon, chestnuts or whatever to Brussels to make them palatable… I’d rather just have the bacon and chestnuts and chuck the Brussels in the bin!

Jaxjacky

In France you can buy them in tins, don’t go there! 🤮

You can buy them in tins in B&M and you’re right Jax I’m with you on the 🤮

Same here Calli. 😊