“Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. There’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it.”
Well, that’s about where we are with asparagus right now. The house came with an established asparagus bed, and friends, it is bountiful. As with everything else around here, we are relying on a combination of local knowledge (Dr. Evil’s folks) and the internet to figure how to harvest the asparagus. Internet says to harvest every other day until the crop runs out, and we attempted that at first, but now we find ourselves harvesting daily. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine problem to have, but holy smokes.
We also got our garden in this week. It was a bit late, but I blame Amazon and their nebulous idea of what 2-Day Shipping really means. The chickens are fully grown now, and quite amusing, I might add. Kid Number Two, having finished her first year of college (!!), is visiting us for a while and enjoys running around like an idiot to make the chickens run behind her. Maybe after a couple more years of higher education she’ll be a leader of men, but for now, she’s a fine leader of hen(s).
We’ve spent a small fortune on material to built an enclosed chicken run, and at this point even I am sick of my “these are some expensive eggs” jokes, but as Dr. Evil’s Pop frames it, it’s not about saving money. Which is good, because we’re not.
The story of how I know this isn’t terribly important, but there’s a small village named Beelitz right outside Berlin, where an awful lot of the asparagus consumed in Berlin is consumed. (Beelitz is also the former site of the largest Soviet Military Hospital outside the USSR, and a great place to explore abandoned buildings, if you’re ever in the neighborhood). Anyway, each year, they have a Queen of Asparagus. https://www.beelitzer-spargelkoenigin.de/
You might try something similar.
Actually, where the asparagus consumed in Berlin is grown, is what I meant.
My first exposure to good asparagus was with you in Speyer. I’ve spent the intervening years trying to sell people on the wonder of white asparagus. That said, when you can harvest and cook on the same day, green and purple are just as good.