Recipe News: Asparagus Recipes"~By Jenny Baxter of Jennys Kitchen

There are 37,000 acres in our state that are devoted to growing this prized vegetable in the coastal counties of Riverside and Imperial along with Contra Costa, Sacramento, and San Joaquin. Although it is eaten world wide we have the advantage of sampling locally grown fleshy green tender spears that are cut fresh daily.
And this adorned vegetable is celebrated the last weekend of April, this year falling on April 25-27, in our neighboring community of Stockton for the annual Asparagus Festival.

Growing up I never enjoyed asparagus because my mom used to cook it until the dull green spears were gray-green and limp. And if that was not enough to force me to turn my nose up at the dinner table, then the fact that Larry, a kid who lived around the corner, who chased me with large smelly frogs from the neighborhood pond, which had a similar odor to my Mother’s kitchen when cooking asparagus certainly did!

Cooking this vegetable can be simple, like wrapping it in bacon and broiling or steaming it and tossing it with butter or olive oil and Parmesan cheese to the difficulty of preparing a Hollandaise sauce for Eggs Benedict

Includes recipes for:

Sesame Asparagus

Marinated Asparagus

Full article here.

February 16, 2008

Recipe News: Asparagus Recipes"~By Jenny Baxter of Jennys Kitchen