I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss for asparagus!
 

I like it best sauteed in Italian salad dressing, with onions and mushrooms, and a little olive oil. Very healthy, and bursting with taste. I'm not gay either, lol.

mmmmmmmm...asparagus.

That sounds delicious. I've just had steamed with a little butter before. I'll have to try that sometime!!

Try it this way....

I've used this to make canned asparagus more "palatable" when it was all the veggie I had in the house. It's great for leftover steamed asparagus, too....

Take asparagus stalks in small bundles of three or four stalks. Wrap in a strip of bacon. Lay in a shallow pan. When bundles are all done, pour a barbecue sauce over them. Use a tangy, spicy sauce, not a sweet one. Bake in a 300* oven for just a few minutes, watching to be sure bacon doesn't burn. As soon as the bacon's done, the dish is done.

This works best with steamed asparagus, but it will work on canned in a pinch....

It's also REALLY good with whole green beans, but I like it better with asparagus.

For the record, I like asparagus best steamed with a little lemon butter and a pinch of kosher salt.

I love asparagus season...

The BEST way is steamed... and nothing else but the taste of asparagus...


I can still get it in the stores this time of year but it always makes me a little suspicious... The true season should happen in a few months...

my parents had an asparagus patch literally twenty feet from the kitchen table. as a kid, i'd eat steamed asparagus that was about seven minutes picked. always with butter and salt. i couldn't IMAGINE putting BBQ sauce on asparagus! tho the bacon sounds good..... :)

I actually don't LIKE bbq sauce, and I was HIGHLY skeptical the first time my friend served it. I think the thing is not putting too much, and I wouldn't EVER use it on fresh asparagus or on first-served asparagus, only on leftover or (gods forbid) canned.

mmmm asparagus... lightly steamed - with a touch of lemon...

Fancy appetizers has me wrapping a piece of parma ham or proscuitto around a stalk and you have some tasty finger foods...

(Asparagus is one of my favorite foods because Emily Post says that it's acceptable to eat an asparagus spear, as long as it doesn't ahve sauce on it, with your fingers... :D

I always use my fingers with asparagas... and if they are on my plate they are ususally the first to go...


This isn't true of the white asparagas. Usually too fat to safely eat with my fingers...

canapes: a slice of bread cut in half, on each half a dollop of mayo, sit an asparagus tip on top, eat and be amazed! :)

Steamed asparagus is the best! I usually squirt a little lemon and grind some black pepper on it. Delish. I make asparagus and portobella mushroom fajitas occasionally, too. Very good.

Steamed. With freshly ground pepper.
Now I'm starving for some asparagus and I can't make it to the store and I don't have a way to cook it in the dorm. Damn you all.
mwilliams2, what kind of Italian salad dressing do you sautee the asparagus in?

I could eat steamed asparagus all day long

yeah, but then your pee would smell really wierd for the rest of your life..... :crazy:

this is my latest recipe with asparagus -- makes a great meal

fettucini and asparagus with black olive tapenade

Make tapenade:
in food processor combine 1c pitted black olives (i recommend good quality olive bar olives but if you have to you can used canned -- but the flavor will be much less intense.) zest of 1 lemon, juice of half a lemon, 5 cloves of garlic and 1/2 tbls salt as this blends slowly drizzle in olive oil until a paste is formed. This paste will keep for a month and is good on bread or crackers or even raw veggies, you'll probably have a good amount left over.

Bring alted water to boil in a large pot when it begins to boil add 1c asparagus broken (always break asparagus instead of cutting and always toss out the bottom part -- the stalks will break just above where the ends will be woody.) into the water and cook for 2-4 mins (until tender) then drop these into a bowl of cold water. Now add the fettucini to the water and cook until done.

Put the asparagus and the pasta into a large bowl and add in enough of the tapenade to coat (this is really up to you -- put in... enough :)) sprinkle with parmesan cheese and you're done!

I absolutely hated asparagus until I was like 35 years old. My mother always bought the canned kind and then cooked it to death, so it always just tasted or felt like mush in my mouth. Then I decided to try some at a fancy restaurant and that time it was fresh. Man did I miss out on something. Now it is one of my favorite veggies. I will try the bacon wrapped recipe... my mouth is watering already.

Try a pile of steamed asparagus with a couple slices of Havarti on top of the pile. Wait a minute for the cheese to melt, then PRESTO! Easy.

i often marinade asparagus in italian dressing and then bbq it, has a very nice taste.

I also love steamed with a little butter, salt and pepper.

My favourite veggie by far.

Sliced asparagus stir fried with garlic and/or ginger until it turns bright green.

Grilled asparagus, either on a grill or in a grill pan. Mist with a fine layer of oil, add salt, pepper and whatever herbs you want, and grill till charred on one side.

Both are lovely. Mushy asparagus makes me cry. Unless its soup.