Asparagus - is there a more delicious vegetable?
 

It's asparagus season. Yes, I know it can be had most of the year, but I'm talking about fresh, reasonably priced springtime asparagus. It's in all the local produce departments and fruit and vegetable stands and priced under $3/lb. It's firm and flavorful. the stalks are thin to medium and not woody at teh base.

This week I've served it 1) steamed with hollandaise sauce, fresh squeezed lemon juice and melted butter on the side 2) in a pasta dish with smoked mozzarella and prosciutto and 3) in an omelet with bacon and dill.

It's on tonight's menu as well. Maybe raw with a light dip. Mmmmmm.

A huge fan also. Our favorite method: remove woody portion of stems, wash & dry, arrange on a baking sheet. Drizzle lightly with olive oil, sprinkle lightly with kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper. A squeeze of lemon juice is optional, but good. Slide into oven on broil for 5 - 7 minutes.

Delicious. Same basic roasting method used successfully on lots of vegetables, but it's truly sublime with asparagus - it has a different flavor than when cooked in liquids.

Sorry, but asparagus is the only cooked vegetable that literally starts my gag/retch reflex.

Gag at the smell, and if you force me to eat it the result isn't pretty.....

Lovely image, Mr. c. :D May I suggest an artichoke, instead? It is, after all, one of the few foods one may play with, at table. ;)

Our favorite veggie as well, we eat it 3-4 times a week at dinner. Either roast it at 450 for 7-10 minutes with olive oil and pepper or throw in in the grill pan for a few minutes....very tasty!

Another fan of roasted asparagus. I also make a tasty asparagus soup.
Asparagus is a great diuretic and steamed asparagus with a salty meal (Chinese food) will help negate some of those effects of high sodium.

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hey cblaisd -- i don't recall you saying you're much of a veg person in any event.

you got me laughing with you!

If avocado can squeak by on a technicality (flowering vegetable), I'd say it's a 3-way tie.

:)

Most any sort of raw vegetable is good, or at least tolerable.

But I always order my Pork Pad Thai from Sombats in Hilo with "no vegetables" :D

But name one other veggie you can eat that makes your pee smell funny..??!!

I very much enjoyed going to an Asparagus festival in Germany in late April...they sold it by the 1/2 kilo and you ate it off paper plates under a tent. It was sooo fun.

And lets not forget about the after effects (smell of ur!ne)? those of you who have the gene know what I'm talking about.

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/43/1671_51089

I'll take "Vegetables that start with the letter 'A' ", for $500, please, Alex. :D

^ Couldn't have put it any better, or should that be worse