Asparagus appointment

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Today I bought eight packs of asparagus for 5 pence each from Tesco. We had some tonight, steamed with a bit of lemon butter and some black pepper. Breakfast tomorrow involvng poached eggs. Grilled and tossed into a salad for lunch (we had a roast chicken tonight, so lots of chicken to throw in too). Other things to be decided.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

really, no pretty asparagus pictures? Here...
http://www.ccbe.be/daprice/archives/asparagus-officinalis.jpg

― Ruthie Tooth (Ruthie Tooth), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

ailsa, you live near a wondrous tesco. all we ever got on reduced offer at ours were dented healthy living ready meals and suspiciously bulging packs of meat.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Now that we've decided not to move, it's time to plant an asparagus bed.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

My Tesco is wondrous, I know. I also got a basil plant for 10p and a punnet of apricots for 10p yesterday. But it was the asparagus which had me jumping for joy. I just cleared the shelf of it, and no-one batted an eyelid, I was expecting them to tell me to leave some for other people, but no. Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

it's the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the year

― teeny, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I love seeing this thread title come back around.

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I love it SOOOO much and everyone that I know, knows how much I love it.
When I was in college, my boyfriend bought me an entire wooden crate of asparagus for my birthday!!! It came with a big pink ribbon and bow on it (in hind sight, I shoulda married that one *sigh*) .

Bake/gril it w/olive oil and slices of garlic and seas salt - it gets all nutty and brown and yummy delicious. I wish I had some now.
This time of year has everything I love - asparagus, spring, longer warmer days (daylight savings coming soon)

― Wiggy Woo, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I misssss living around ditches and riverbanks where it just grew all crazywild & free asparagus party for all. Meh!

I liked the asparagus episode of Iron Chef America the other day. I have not seen the contestant win in forever, tho.

― Abbott, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

omg this is the best vegetable by about fifty gazillion light-years

― unfished business, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I would eat it prepared any of the above ways! And then the weapons-grade piss! Why does no other food do that, even foods that are smellier than pre-eaten asparagus, like garlic or stinky cheese?

― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:23 (seventeen years ago) link

the urine smells are half the fun

― unfished business, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't anyone else have Google? Asparagus has a sulfur type of compound in it that's released by the digestive process. Supposedly some people don't break it down, and others actually lack the ability to smell the sulfuric odor! The rest of us get a nice surprise after eating it.

― mh, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have Google.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

that sounds like a good game.

I have just been roasting with yellow tomatoes.

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

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

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

What's a "sex food"?

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

what isn't a sex food

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh cold vodka thanx

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

we just aparagus soup, too!

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

had

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

yarg?

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

Yarg = delicious Cornish cheese.

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

Wrapped in nettles!

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

Ah. Alright.

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

I keep reading this as 'Aspergers appointment'.

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

Don't forget the asparagus tea!

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ten months pass...

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

one month passes...

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

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 (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

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link

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