Christmas sprouts
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Home-grown sprouts
Sprouts are the king of all veg, and if they’re associated with any time of year it’s Christmas. So we headed out into the garden to harvest the first of our crop this week, and served them up for lunch yesterday. They tasted fantastic.
Really full of flavour, and cooked to perfection after telly advice that the whole idea of cutting a cross into the bottom of each one was nothing more than an old wives’ tale that would lead to soggy veg and disappointment.
Nice though they were, though, I don’t know that we’ll be growing any more next year. Our plants take up at least a quarter of the plot, and we’ve already eaten a third of them. A quick browse through Sainsbury’s online shows that they would have cost us about £3 to buy in the shops, proving them to be perhaps our least valuable crop of the lot save, perhaps, the squash, which never matured.
That said, I do have some seeds for purple Brussels that I’m tempted to try in moderation. They would certainly look good on the plate, so perhaps a couple of plants may yet make their way into a border somewhere around the garden’s edge.
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