Pick Your Own Asparagus by Cherry Menlove

Pick Your Own Asparagus

The ‘Pick Your Own’ season has started again in earnest and, as in previous years, it’s Asparagus that starts us off on this particular culinary and outdoor adventure.

Asparagus is odd and cute when it’s growing. As you walk closer towards the current year’s crop you start to see spiky things growing straight up out of the ground and reaching towards the sky. They are the individual stalks of asparagus. Like I said, odd & cute!

It’s a bendy job when you pick asparagus. You reach down low to the ground and cut them out of the soil by hand individually.

But it’s not a job that takes a very long time. Within minutes you have enough in your bag to make a feast for at least six people (providing you don’t nibble on them raw before you get them home)

I see the Asparagus season as the proper start to the ‘Pick Your Own’ celebration that goes right through until the Autumn. It’s a season that is very short, so get picking, and arrives with the same anticipation as the broad beans in our house.
They can be boiled, roasted, grilled, baked or eaten raw. They can also be marinated, dipped, accompanied and wrapped. The possibilities are endless and I’ve been dreaming up a brand new recipe for them that will have it’s premiere tomorrow morning.

I hope that this Monday brings you all much peace as we go into another week and I KNOW that you’ll love tomorrows dish!

See you then.

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