Asparagus recipes

Pickled Asparagus (with dill)

5 lbs asparagus

per pint jar:
1 garlic cloves
1 tsp dill seed
1 tsp mustard seed
6 peppercorns

brine:
8 cups of water 2 1/2 cups white vinegar
3 tbsp pickling salt
1/2 cup white sugar

Wash asparagus well and soak in ice water while you are preparing the 6 pint jars. Place the garlic dill seed, mustard seed and peppercorns in the bottom of each jar. Place asparagus tips in jar. Bring water, white vinegar, pickling salt, and white sugar to a boil and pour over asparagus. Process in hot bath for 5-6 minutes.

Asparagus Stroganoff

1/2 lb asparagus - cut into 1 inch pieces
2 onions - coarsely chopped
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 lb mushrooms
1 cup sour cream

Saute onions, mushrooms, asparagus. Add mushroom soup (no water), sour cream. Heat thoroughly, without boiling. Serve over noodles.

Hopey tip****** What about an 'asparagus bar?'
I love serving plain, boiled asparagus with a variety of side dipping sauces- mayonnaise, vinaigrette dressing, hollandaise, cheesy sauce......whatever you like!

For more recipes:
http://www.asparagus.org/maab/recipes.html

AND... apart from recipes, tips, nutritional information what about the question.....
"Why does asparagus make your pee smell?"

http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon970115/skinny1.html

Apparantly the smell is due to a metabolite called methanethiol. As your body metabolizes asparagus, it produces this smelly chemical, which your discriminating kidneys see fit to dump into the bladder.

Comments

[gabe]

how about asparagus ice cream?

http://spaghettiicecream.com/asparagus-on-blue-plate.html

made with this - http://spaghettiicecream.com/commercial_100k.mpg