Before you cook them, trim off the ends and add those to the compost.
Add to boiling water for 5 minutes and then strain. Pour all that cooled, strained, green water, into the vegetable garden. The plants love the vitamins and minerals in the water.
Remember that Asparagus is one of those plants that is very healthy eaten raw. In fact, when you cook Asparagus, you destroy alot of the Folate, which combined with B12, helps to keep your brain healthy.
Hunting for Asparagus, in the spring, is so much fun to do as a family. We took two of our grandsons,a week ago, and they lay in the dirt in the neighboring potato field. It is so rewarding to contribute free food to the dinner table and really lifts my spirits.
Not only does it get me out of the house, really focused on the present but everytime I find an Asparagus spear, I get so excited, a great endorphin rush. I smell the fields, notice the clouds, anything else growing, wonder how much more is edible! It makes for a lovely outing.
By the way, if you run into a Stinging Nettle patch, while hunting, and get stung, the juice from freshly picked asparagus, nips the stinging in the bud. Or pick a Stinging Nettle leaf, roll it up carefully, spines to the inside of the roll and chew it thoroughly. Spit the chewed Nettle into the stung area and it will stop stinging.
Gary's Blender Hollandaise
3 egg yolks
2 tablespoons of lemon juice or flavored vinegar, like Taragon
Salt and pepper to taste
Blend for 30 seconds in an upright blender
Bring to boil, one stick of butter, a half cup. Dribble the butter into the blender, while it is running. If you want pour the thoroughly whipped Hollandaise into a bowl, and using a whisk, add another stick of boiling, melted butter. This makes a really thick Hollandaise.
I promise you that this recipe is to die for:). It is also wonderful on Eggs Benedict.
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