not soggy sprouts again?

Annie · « **Reply #15 on:** December 17, 2006, 08:56 »

untjac,8 sprouts per person!Lighting the Christmas pud could be hazardous!

muntjac · « **Reply #16 on:** December 17, 2006, 11:57 »

just do it downwind annie lol.. personally i like loads of them

Annie · « **Reply #17 on:** December 17, 2006, 12:40 »

After years of experiment I only have a 4-5 tolerance level,shame it`s a veg I really like and have since a kid.Nonoe ealse in the house will eat them.

muntjac · « **Reply #18 on:** December 17, 2006, 12:42 »

i could eat a whole plate of them with mustard cream sauce ,,,,,,, i may sleep alone for the next year but hey they are good

ytyynycefn · « **Reply #19 on:** December 21, 2006, 18:45 »

My fella is (was) very anti sprouts until I did them with cream and bacon last year. Just put them on the table, didn't make any effort to get him to eat them. Turned my back for a few minutes, and he was happily troughing them :twisted:

Lidl are selling them on the stem, btw. Mine are very small, but there's five plants' worth, so should be plenty. I like the tops better, anyway!

Zak the Rabbit · « **Reply #20 on:** December 21, 2006, 21:08 »

i used to work with a fella who likes em with mashed on toast!!! :?

i had some off me plants last week, picked and eaten within half an hour, smashing!

I was challenged at work by one lad to eat a raw sprout :shock: (he had a bag of em from another chaps organic box), but he only offered 10p prize money so i turned him down, i'd have done it for a quid

muntjac · « **Reply #21 on:** December 21, 2006, 21:10 »

i grab a couple of the stalks and eat them raw .nice

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #22 on:** December 22, 2006, 21:23 »

My sprouts are quite small, but I've saved the largest for Christmas, and the smallest ones the chooks have been eating. plus the tops and any other greenery I can get, they love it all. OH likes his greens boiled to soft, but I like mine with a bit of crunch. Sometimes i just can't be bothered though to take mine out the saucepan first, but this year i'm going to try them with bacon and a little onion like they mentioned on the TV.

One of my granddaughter's is coming up with her little friend at the end of hte month for a few days, or rather we are bringing her up when we go down to Kent and Essex to deliver the presents. She loves sprouts, so if I run out, we'll have to go down the farm shop and get some more on the stems.

I planted 2 purple brussels for her in the summer, but keep forgetting to ask my daughter how they did. When I saw them in August, I asked and my daughter said the plants are good but there are no sprouts on them. What not at all I asked? no she said anyway, I showed her mine and she said, oh are they sprouts? I didn't realise they grew up the sides, I was looking in the middle of the leaves!!!!!! lol

muntjac · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2006, 21:26 »

now tahts funnny lolol

Zak the Rabbit · « **Reply #24 on:** December 22, 2006, 21:41 »

just seen 'em eatin em raw on telly, never thought of that, and ive been feedin a handfull to the rabbit every day (he loves em), i'll have to nosh a few while im diggin tomorrow

i fancy doing some of the purple ones next year, just seen em on GW on telly, they look fab

muntjac · « **Reply #25 on:** December 22, 2006, 21:45 »

i like em raw as well chopped up in stir fry is nice

shaun · « **Reply #26 on:** December 23, 2006, 08:38 »

small sprouts meens one thing not enough muck was dug in the ground before you planted them.they are realy hungry plants.
mine are like apples (i wish)

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #27 on:** December 23, 2006, 10:54 »

I'll put more muck in next time then Shaun.

GrannieAnnie · « **Reply #28 on:** December 23, 2006, 10:55 »

Mind you, it didn't help thta OH told me to out them closer together this year!!!!! to get more plants in. But more plants are no good if the produce is dodo eh?

shaun · « **Reply #29 on:** December 23, 2006, 12:13 »

thats correct anne you want a bit of air around them,when there small seedlings/plants its quite hard to judge sometimes how far to space them,that goes for everything though.
tip of the day is
always read what it says on the packet

and not like i do and just read the 1st line and ignore the rest :oops:

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