If you have to eat one of these with your dinner, which will it be, brussel sprouts or spinach?

Spinach, cooked or raw.

agreed! Spinach!

I love brussels sprouts, so I’d certainly eat them first, but am not a fan of cooked spinach. I’ll eat it in a salad, but creamed spinach grosses me out.

I love spinach in a salad. And I hate most vegetables.

It depends. As a side, I’d prefer brussels sprouts. I’m not a huge fan of spinach uncooked and by itself (except for in a salad or something similar), but I love it in a variety of forms, including spanakopita.

Only raw spinach. No brussels sprouts.

spinach sauteed with garlic, butter, and salt!

Both! Nom nom nom.

Thank you all for your input, I didn’t know there was something called spanakopita, how is that made? I love spinach raw or cooked.

Spinach sauteed with olive oil, garlic, shallots, kosher salt and lemon – then hit with some fresh grated parmesan as soon as it’s out of the skillet.

(Brussels sprouts are great cooked in olive oil, with garlic and pancetta too)

Spinach rocks my world, daily.

I’m not a huge fan of spinach, but I abhor brussel sprouts.

I have to pick one?? Both! I’m greedy. I love both….but I do like spinach raw or cooked – and in a variety of ways.

sprouts! I love them steamed with butter and lots of salt and pepper. They kill my stomach though.

My husband likes them with the salt, and he adds a touch of vinegar to them. Loves them that way, I am not a pepper nut, but I love my beggies.

Spinach! Brussel Sprouts?

edit: retch (yes, indeed)

Ooh…wretch! Mmmmmmm.

I like both, but I’d take Brussels sprouts first.

I like raw spinach in a salad only. I have a life-long hatred of the brussel sprouts…but have been tempted lately to try roasting them.

When I was little, we called them baby cabbages. lol

Spinach salad or cooked and dressed with crumbled bacon. Anything is edible with bacon.

Love, love, love them both.
@Augustian I have converted brussel sprout haters by doing this. Cook a slice of bacon in pan. Pour out all the bacon fat except for what coats the pan. Saute the sprouts, season with sea salt and fresh cracked pepper. (Sometimes I splash chicken or veggie stock in there and let it deglaze the pan and steam them for a second) Sprinkle crumbled bacon over. It’s off the hook. Like gg said anything is edible with bacon. One guy told me I gave brussel sprouts a reason to live.

Oh, definitely, I’ll go for both. And feel free to toss in some cauliflower, beets, and turnip, too.

Mmm! Spinach!!!

@Jeruba—High five! I love all those veggies that most people wrinkle their noses at, too.

I love them both!
@Jeruba & MacBean, we’re all in this cart of unloved veggies together!

I love brussels. Love them love them so much. Even just steamed plain with butter added at the end. Yum. I use spinach mostly for indian dishes, where it’s pureed and made into almost a sauce. A good recipe is palek paneer, literally “spinach cheese”, which uses the indian cheese paneer.

That’s really hard. I love them both. Ideally with a bit of bacon, then cooked in some bacon grease with shallots.

It I had to choose just one, probably spinach. But only because it is a little easier to cook (I like to chop the sprouts up).

@EmpressPixie: I don’t think I ‘ve ever had them chopped up; what a great idea. Maybe my kids would find them less intimidating that way.

I chop them into slices and cook them in bacon grease with shallots. They are super yummy that way and get tender faster. Then I either add fat free sour cream and use them in pasta topped with cheese or serve them as is.

@MacBean & @bythebay, what a smorgasbord we could dream up! Some mushrooms for the spinach, cheese sauce for the sprouts, butter for the turnip…

Any more nose-wrinkling veggie rejects to love and adopt? Broccoli of course, asparagus (is that a nose-wrinkler?), cooked celery, cabbage?

Cabbage is one I have yet to really enjoy, my mum only ever made cabbage rolls with those and I wasn’t the biggest fan of ‘em. I do like kimchi, but I’ve never thought of making my own.

@Jeruba & MacBean: I’m laughing because I just explained how delicious turnips & rutabagas can be to a woman in the grocery store who proclaimed them both inedible and useless!! All hail the unpopular veggies.

Speaking of unloved veggies, how about squash? Each squash type is a bit different and interesting, yet I don’t hear of people eating it a lot outside Halloween.

I love squash, artichokes, asparagus, rutebegas (in beef stew or pot roast), and cabbage (just sauteed in butter or bacon grease with salt). Just never liked brussel sprouts, but I think people were cooking them the wrong way, so I may give them another try.

@Asmonet – me too! Both please!

I too am a veggie nut, I make a dip for my artichokes with sour cream, powdered aujus, basil, lemon juice, a little pepper, dill, and a touch of salt.
I love asparagus, turnip, celery, cucumber, squash, tomato, lettuces of all kinds, just gimme a veggie tray, and I am happy.