It's asparagus time!
May. 31st, 2008 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartThe season came a little later than usual, but finally it's there. Mum and I both love asparagus, and fortunately, so do the Germans in general. I think they relate to asparagus the same way Hobbits relate to mushrooms. Which is a good thing, because it means that you can find literally hundreds of fantastic recipes for asparagus dishes on the Net. If you're an asparagus lover, google for "Spargelrezepte". Google offers you the instant translation from German, so if you're not that fluent in the language you'll still be able to manage.
So far, we've had asparagus with ham, cheese sauce and baked potatoes three times and asparagus with melted butter and roast bread crumbs and scrambled eggs (also added ham and baked potatoes) once. I'm going to try the Asparagus Milanese next, or the Polnish art. Or the version with poultry stripes. Or the one with mozzarella. I'm not sure which one to try first.
Asparagus is not unreasonably expensive, it has valuable minerals in it and very few calories, aside from being the tastiest vegetable on this planet. It's also a good thing that there are so many ways to prepare it. The only bad thing is: you get a tennis arm in every asparagus season, from all the peeling. But we manage. *g*
Also, I had the weirdest plotcritters about Hobbits cooking asparagus and calling it "the Elf root", for obvious reasons. I think I'm a hopeless case where the mind-in-the-gutter aspect of life is considered. Still, I'm sure the Hobbits would forget all about mushrooms, should they get the chance to know asparagus.
Okay, shutting up now...
So far, we've had asparagus with ham, cheese sauce and baked potatoes three times and asparagus with melted butter and roast bread crumbs and scrambled eggs (also added ham and baked potatoes) once. I'm going to try the Asparagus Milanese next, or the Polnish art. Or the version with poultry stripes. Or the one with mozzarella. I'm not sure which one to try first.
Asparagus is not unreasonably expensive, it has valuable minerals in it and very few calories, aside from being the tastiest vegetable on this planet. It's also a good thing that there are so many ways to prepare it. The only bad thing is: you get a tennis arm in every asparagus season, from all the peeling. But we manage. *g*
Also, I had the weirdest plotcritters about Hobbits cooking asparagus and calling it "the Elf root", for obvious reasons. I think I'm a hopeless case where the mind-in-the-gutter aspect of life is considered. Still, I'm sure the Hobbits would forget all about mushrooms, should they get the chance to know asparagus.
Okay, shutting up now...
