Asparagus appointment

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HURRAH!

uk asparagus is back! Back!! BACK!!!

i had asparagus soup on saturday and meg had asparagus with fried duck egg (we were at a posh restaurant), then i bought a bunch (pack?) from sainsburys yesterday. i think asparagus a la dast0or this evening...

― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

also pls to notice that the asparagus season appear to be getting a week earlier EVERY YEAR!! that's global warming for you...

― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

Just steamed and used to dip in baked camembert on saturday, yummy!!!

― Vicky, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

You making me hungry! Dipped in baked camembert... argh, ::drools:: I need to get my oven fixed.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

that sounds like a good game.

I have just been roasting with yellow tomatoes.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

i got invited to an asparagus party next weekend. what is best to drink with it?

― jergïns, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:47 (nineteen years ago)

What's a "sex food"?

― braveclub, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

what isn't a sex food

― jergïns, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

Crisp white wine, very cold like a spanish vino turbio or something green and crunchy from the veneto or ice cold vodka.

― Ed, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

ooh cold vodka thanx

― jergïns, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

It always feel like the start of summer when this thread gets revived. You know, days are longer, blossom out, asparagus thread on ILx revived.

― Anna, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

boiled and served with butter, fresh bread and yarg (sp?!) last night. fantastic.

― toby, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

we just aparagus soup, too!

― RJG, Monday, 30 April 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

had

― RJG, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

yarg?

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yarg = delicious Cornish cheese.

― braveclub, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Wrapped in nettles!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Alright.

― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

I keep reading this as 'Aspergers appointment'.

― blueski, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Don't forget the asparagus tea!

http://www.healthegoods.com/images/products/teas/tea_asparagus.jpg

― zaxxon25, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=48981

― negotiable, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I live close to HUGE AGRICULTURAL AREA now so asparagus has been cheap and plentiful for a couple of weeks now. I love to stir fry it with finely diced chicken, peanuts, shallots, and Thai basil, chili sauce, fish sauce, white pepper, and dried coriander with some lime juice at the end.

But truly roasting in hot oven with olive oil and salt, finished with some lemon or balsamic vinegar is the best possible way. Not to mention easy as hell.

― joygoat, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

My tea: Oven-roasted sparrowguts served with scrambled eggs on a thick slice of home-made bread (chives added to egg to made it less breakfasty). It was all the delicious.

― robster, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the idea, ILX. Dinner was cold poached asparagus with poached eggs and lemon-mustard sauce.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

It's that time again!!!

Yay 99cents per lb at the market!

― Wiggy Woo, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

do you live in australia?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Is Asparagus Spicy

― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

no, LOL Los Angeles!

It's usually just about this time that it comes WAY down in cost.

― Wiggy Woo, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Purple Haze asparagus!i have some. the tag on them is all trippy.

― carne asada, Sunday, 4 May 2008 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

first asparagus a la dastoor of the season last night, still as good as ever!

(yes this is the only reason i've logged in for the first time in about a year, hullo everyone)

― CarsmileSteve, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 11:31 (seventeen years ago)

i had my first appointment last night too. pan fried in olive oil with a rocket, black pudding and poached egg salad topped with parmesan. num.

― jed_, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

We had a big bundle each last night. nom nom nom. Still keeping it real: 5 minutes in boiling salted water with the tips steaming just out of the water, and plenty of butter on top.

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 April 2009 12:33 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

this may seem ridiculous (in fact, i've asked the gaffer and he agreed that it was), but i saw some english asparagus tips in tesco yesterday, £1.50 for half a dozen from worcestershire somewhere, they were quite thick as well...

...they must be grown hydroponically or something...

― CarsmileSteve, Monday, 8 March 2010 14:33 (sixteen years ago)

I am, as usual, stupidly excited for asparagus season.

― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 14:52 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/12/dining/12minirex.html?ref=dining

I gotta try this toot sweet

― Grisly Addams (WmC), Thursday, 27 May 2010 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

i always slather in olive oil kosher salt and pepper and put em on the grill till they get all burnty on the outside

― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

is asparagus, in fact, the king of all vegetables?

― in which we apologize for sobering up (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 27 May 2010 22:50 (sixteen years ago)

i think so although broccoli

― CUSE EX MACHINA (jjjusten), Thursday, 27 May 2010 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

you guys, asparagus pesto is A++++; had generous dollops on sauteed tilapia

― Grisly Addams (WmC), Thursday, 27 May 2010 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

Asparagus is one of those things that I love because it's expensive or unavailable for a lot of the year, then you get a small window where it's cheap and you get sick of eating it that you need 10 months off until you really want it again. I might have to make pesto with it this weekend.

I think broccoli and asparagus are probably co-kings of the vegetable world. I actually felt kind of sick from eating too much broccoli last week.

― joygoat, Thursday, 27 May 2010 23:48 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

tonight
is so right
for un rendez-vous d'asperge

― górecki's zygotic mynci (c sharp major), Saturday, 30 April 2011 18:00 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Yasssparagus

― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:00 (thirteen years ago)

fuck broccoli

― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:23 (thirteen years ago)

four years pass...

shameful lack of revive this year

guys

COLD CREAM OF ASPARAGUS SOUP IS THE MOST DELICIOUS THING IN CREATION

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:27 (eight years ago)

I am eating asparagus RIGHT NOW

― conrad, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:28 (eight years ago)

I went to Germany about two months ago and have had the word SPARGELZEIT! stuck in my head ever since.

My hotel had an all-asparagus menu.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:21 (eight years ago)

and it was Meades that said Germany was all about potatoes.

― calzino, Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:26 (eight years ago)

I had asparagus last night and again today! I made hollandaise for the first time and felt so fancy.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 23 June 2017 01:26 (eight years ago)

I went to Germany about two months ago and have had the word SPARGELZEIT! stuck in my head ever since.

My hotel had an all-asparagus menu.

― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Thursday, June 22, 2017 5:21 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just did about a week in innsbruck and munich, they really love that fat white asparagus over there.

― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 June 2017 01:30 (eight years ago)

Every time I see asparagus in a shop the words "asparagus appointment" come into my mind.

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Friday, 23 June 2017 01:33 (eight years ago)

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