Friday, February 04, 2005

Asparagus recipe

For the first spring asparagus, there is really nothing better (or more decadent) than this.

Take 2 slices of fresh brown bread, toasted and buttered.
Top with steamed asparagus.
Ladle with cheese cream sauce.

Enjoy! Yum.... well, asparagus risotto is pretty good too.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The latest isue of COOKS ILLUSTRATED has a fantastic receipe for asparagus:

1 tbls butter
1 tbls olive oil

melt butter into olive oil over med-high heat in skillet. when melted add in aspargus in two layers - cover - cook for 5 min.

uncover - cook for 7 min - moving aspargus on bottom to top when browned on one side with tongs.

season with salt and/or 1/2 lemon and serve

perfection...

oceanwalker said...

MMM... Thanks, I hadn't seen that one! I'll have to try it next time.