― G00blar, Monday, 30 April 2007 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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― negotiable, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link
It's that time again!!!
Yay 99cents per lb at the market!
― Wiggy Woo, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
do you live in australia?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Asparagus Spicy
― Slumpman, Thursday, 27 March 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Purple Haze asparagus!i have some. the tag on them is all trippy.
― carne asada, Sunday, 4 May 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
I am, as usual, stupidly excited for asparagus season.
― quincie, Monday, 8 March 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
i think so although broccoli
― CUSE EX MACHINA (jjjusten), Thursday, 27 May 2010 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
you guys, asparagus pesto is A++++; had generous dollops on sauteed tilapia
― Grisly Addams (WmC), Thursday, 27 May 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
tonight is so rightfor un rendez-vous d'asperge
― górecki's zygotic mynci (c sharp major), Saturday, 30 April 2011 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Yasssparagus
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
fuck broccoli
― call all destroyer, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
I am eating asparagus RIGHT NOW
― conrad, Thursday, 22 June 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
and it was Meades that said Germany was all about potatoes.
― calzino, Thursday, 22 June 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
― 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 (six years ago) link
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 (six years ago) link
I’m going to bite… I’ve never got what the "asparagus appointment" title here is referring to.
Bought my first asparargus of the year today though.
Also, saw this today too:
My mind is BLOWN!! How are we still eating burgers and chips in the U.K. after raving and clubbing when our age mates in Amsterdam have food spots inside of the club serving grilled ASPARAGUS & BROCCOLI over BULGUR WHEAT with a GINGER shot at 5am!?!?! I am embaressed hahah— Vanessa Maria (@nessamariaw) April 16, 2023
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 17 April 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
Wow. I can't believe UKers call asparagus 'asparagus'. You'd think with calling eggplants 'aubergines' and zucchini 'courgette', you must have a French sounding name for asparagus, too.
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Monday, 17 April 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
i think the thread title = i've got a date with some asparagus i.e. plan to eat it.
― hoonja doonja love me anymore (Deflatormouse), Monday, 17 April 2023 22:18 (one year ago) link
The thread title was really familiar to me when I saw it again just now, and I now realise that every time I've cooked asparagus or talked about cooking asparagus in the last 20 years I've been going back to this thread without realising it. Simply in the oven with oil is more or less the recipe every time.
My partner's mother was an amazing cook. She'd come visit, all the way from Sweden, and turn a spring onion and a bit of ham in the fridge into something that would blow your mind. Last time she came, in 2019, she boiled asparagus for an hour and a half and looked puzzled when we laughed at its floppiness. That was the first sign. I say last visit though she is still alive, but it is the last one for sure.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 17 April 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link
I ordered an asparagus sandwich in Sydney once, at a small deli type thing
I had high hopes, but it was boiled-to-mush asparagus & margarine on white bread... pretty disappointing
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 17 April 2023 23:39 (one year ago) link
Veggies and grains in the club is like sushi at the ballpark. Nah man, gimme a funnel cake and a shitty hot dog with some beer.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 17 April 2023 23:45 (one year ago) link
Kinda wonder how much broccoli & bulgur is actually being eaten at 3am in NL, compared to oily pommes frites and sausages
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 18 April 2023 00:00 (one year ago) link