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I did Brussels sprouts with chestnuts and bacon for my first Christmas dinner of this year and they were... OK. Not great. The sprouts would have been just as nice just plainly boiled. For the second go round, at Mark and Richard's place, Mark insisted that the sprouts be shredded and stirfried. It sounded better than the raw ones we had last year (he won't eat boiled ones), so I went for it. I usually blanch green veg before I stirfry them, so I did it with the sprouts. I gave them the minumum of cleaning and peeling, and blanched them in boiling water for one minute, then chilled them under the tap and shredded them finely. Ten minutes before serving dinner, I cut up some streaky bacon and stifried it in a wok until just cooked, then added some halved chestnuts from a can, and finally tipped in the shredded sprouts and just warmed them up. It was very very good, and worked well as leftovers for warming up, too. Kake
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