I bought some Brussels´ sprouts.
By marguicha
@marguicha (223107)
Chile
August 29, 2018 11:27am CST
Brussels´ sprouts are either loved or hated. I am of the one who love them.
I either eat them as my mother cooked them, with bechamel sauce and Parmesan cheese or I just heat a pan with butter and place them there with some bread crumbs.
Are you a lover or hater? If you love them, how do you prepare them? Here they are never inexpensive.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
29 Aug 18
I know my mom doesn't like them so I honestly do not know if I like them or not, I imagine I wouldn't because I am so picky about cooked vegetables.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
29 Aug 18
Do you like broccoli and cauliflower? They belong to the same family.
@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
31 Aug 18
@DesirousDreamer And closer cousins to cabbage.
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@DesirousDreamer (34776)
• Peoria, Arizona
31 Aug 18
@marguicha I do. I never really thought of them like that haha
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
29 Aug 18
I like Brussels sprouts a good deal better than I did when at school they boiled them for half an hour (or so it seemed). The way I cook them (for only about 5 minutes), they are not overcooked, yellow and mushy but bright green, sweet and nutty. We don't usually serve them with a sauce - just a knob of butter and a scrape of nutmeg.
Today, as it happens, I was tasked with buying Brussels sprouts. I snorted with laughter because Brussels sprouts are a winter vegetable and at their best when picked after the frost has touched them. Since it is the end of August, I was very doubtful that I'd find any unless, as I said, they had been imported from Peru.
I was wrong. English grown Brussels sprouts were available! Little 300g packs of very manky looking ones - the kind that you'd normally not bother to prepare but give to the guinea pig or the pet rabbit! These were priced at £1.20 ... £4 per kilo!! (I think that oranges are cheaper!). Then I looked in the frozen vegetables section. There I found a kilo of ready prepared and frozen sprouts for £1.10. You can guess which I bought, I'm sure!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
30 Aug 18
@MALUSE It's a word I hadn't thought much about before (just used it without thinking). I'm almost sure that I picked it up from my kids, which would make it current in the '80s and early '90s. I'm pretty certain that it wasn't current when I was a kid (in the '50s and '60s) and I don't remember my parents ever using it. The online dictionary seems to infer that it is 1950's slang, though the 'timeline' shows usages from 1600. It has an illustrious history, though, and seems to come from the Latin mancus ('maimed') via the French manqué, which I understood to mean 'missed' or 'forgotten' or 'worthless'. Perhaps @topffer could set me right on that!
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
30 Aug 18
@MALUSE Perhaps I (along with many others) have succumbed. Perhaps Britain has become a nation of goats! I tend to write colloquially here and 'kids' is how most people seem to refer to their children now. 'Sprogs', 'Chavvies', 'Horrors' and 'Brood' (collective noun) are other colloquialisms which are not so common and may belong to subcultures.
'Chavvies', I believe, comes from the Romani 'chavi' meaning 'child' and I know at least one person, who is not Romani and has no Romani or Traveller connections, who uses the word routinely to refer to children (without any derogatory sense). The word 'chav' or 'charver' is more often used pejoratively to refer to brash and anti-social youths of a particular culture, mostly lower class, generally dressed in sportswear and hoodie tops and usually hunting in packs.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
29 Aug 18
I am sure that our mothers cooked veggies until they killed them when we were children. Green beans were grey and bland and so were all other veggies that started being green. I steam a lot of my veggies and serve most of them al dente. Cauliflowers, broccoli and Brussels sprouts are winter veggies. I steam them but can also eat some of them raw (marinated with a sauce). I would not buy any veggie at that price. In fact, I am eating less meat so that I don´t eat that much money all at once
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@snowy22315 (180840)
• United States
29 Aug 18
I like them..especially roasted, but I wouldn't say they are a favorite.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
29 Aug 18
@marguicha No, I use a pressure cooker for Brussels sprouts.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
30 Aug 18
@topffer Brussel sprouts take minutes in a normal pot
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
29 Aug 18
I really like them but only have them at Christmas. I should eat them more often and even have another attempt at growing them.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
30 Aug 18
I tried to brow them, but I got some sprout bugs. So now I buy them.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
4 Sep 18
@asfarasiknow They are caterpillars of some butterflies.
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@asfarasiknow (3340)
• Bournemouth, England
3 Sep 18
@marguicha I had never heard of that pest.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
29 Aug 18
I steam cook them and it is not as if I cook them in water.
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@much2say (55665)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Sep 18
@marguicha It was discovered off of the Martha Stewart site a few Thanksgivings ago 
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
6 Sep 18
@much2say I´ll check them. I only know a couple of my mother´s recipes.
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32695)
• Calgary, Alberta
30 Aug 18
Brussel sprouts are not as bitter as the kids who hates them claim to be. It is too tame compared to Bittermelon and kale.
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@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
30 Aug 18
I had never had Brussels sprouts until last Thanksgiving here, when my brother and his girlfriend brought some for dinner. I really liked them. I don't cook them myself (my partner won't eat them,) but I enjoy them when others make them and bring them to dinner.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
30 Aug 18
My husband would not let many things with strong smell to be cooked near him. I accepted that as he was such a darling in so many other aspects. I cook a lot of this now.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
29 Aug 18
You can have my portion.
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