This is what i prepared yesterday

green asparagus
vegetable broth
salt
couscous
tomatoes
oil
garlic
parmesan cheese

One tablespoon of oil, roast the green asparagus that has been cut into small chunks, then add the vegetable broth and garlic and cover to boil a bit. Not a lot of liquid, just to cover the floor of the pan. When the pan is closed the effect of this little water is like steam cooking.
I don’t like to boil asparagus in water, because then the taste goes into the water.
Let it cook for a few minutes. Add the couscous. I like to boil it once shortly and then i pull the pan away and let it rest.
Then i cut the tomatoes, the small ones, we call them cocktail tomatoes, into little pieces and add them. I don’t like to cook them with the rest because then they get mushy.
At the end some parmesan cheese to give a little spicy taste.

For me asparagus has always been a very boring food. It is cooked in water, then mostly tastes of old socks, here in austria we eat it with sauce hollandaise, which for me is mainly butter, heated, ugh !
But the green asparagus is different, very tasty, and one can prepare it really fast.

That sounds good, I’ll have to try it!

Although I have a hard time fixing asparagus in recipes because I love to eat it all by itself, steamed of course!

Aimee

I’m with you Aimee - I love fresh steamed asparagus - done so it’s still a little crunchy.  Now I’m hungry and I’m not sure what I’m going to find to eat here.

Those green little wonderful stalks are popping out of the ground right now as we speak. My parents have them in their garden. I look forward to picking them fresh every Spring and devouring them, steamed of course!

I’m so glad you posted this Lara. I just bought a ton of asparagus yesterday. It was on sale, so I know I’ve got to use it soon - but I had no idea how to prepare it! I’ll definitely give this a try. Thanks!!

I love fresh steamed asparagus with a little salt and pepper.

I don’t like how my pee smells the next day.

That is so true! Your pee stinks so bad from asparagus. And not the next day it’s like 30 minutes later! I always wondered why that happened. I used to like to think that the asparagus is chasing all of the bad things out of your body and that is why it smells.

Well, as it turns out there is a wealth of information available on this topic. Just Google “asparagus pee”. It’s pretty scientific so I’ll spare everyone the smelly details.

Oh my !

Where is this going, hahaha

(But you´re right about the smell!)

We do a lot of grilled aspargus.  Brush a bit of olive oil on the raw aspargus and put it on the hot barbeque ... nummy!

Ada

I picked a bunch of asparagus last night in my Mom’s garden. They are soooooooo yummy when they are soooo fresh! YUM! I steamed them and ate them plain!