Asparagus chick pea salad

[Clipper]

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Kathy made this last night as a side dish to accompany roast beef and garlic mashed potatoes. It was awesome. I found fresh asparagus at Krogers the other night but they had only one bunch left. I am hoping to find it there again today so I can buy some to season lightly, brush with oil, and grill. I love fresh asparagus. I save the tougher portions of the stalks that I snap off and freeze them for later use in soup and stews.

There are other good recipes at the link below.

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Kathy is going to try this one in the next few days. When she gets around to it I will let you know how it tastes. Peach cobbler still warm from the oven with a dollop of whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream is the perfect ending to a Southern style meal. A dish of hot cobbler with ice cream rivals even the best of pies. Yum!

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[kit]

Speaking of cooking like our grandmothers...

Fred and Ann were grocery shopping one day and bought a nice ham to bake on Sunday. When they got home, Ann cut off 1/3 of the ham, wrapped it and put it in the freezer and would bake the rest on Sunday. Fred was puzzled by this and asked Ann why she cut off 1/3 of the ham first. She said that was the proper way to bake a ham; it's the way her mother had taught her several years ago and she'd always baked it that way. Fred said 'Okay.'

Ann's mother Millie came over for dinner on Sunday and Fred pulled her aside and asked her how she baked a ham. She said, “Well, I cut off 1/3 of the ham and put it in the ice box, then put the rest in a roasting pan bake it. I've done it that way ever since Bert and I were married 30 years ago.” He asked why it was so important to cut off 1/3 of the ham first. She said, “It isn't, really, but when I got married I only had a small roasting pan so I had to cut off 1/3 of the ham to make it fit.”

[chris]

Kit that is precious.

Clipper I love asparagus too. Will have to check out your recipe for the salad. ...and you can give me any kind of cobbler fresh out of the oven and with a dollop of vanilla ice cream.

[Clipper]

You won't be disappointed Chris. The salad is very tasty. Of course fresh and tender asparagus is the key.

[kit]

With technology so advanced, I wonder why nobody has figured out how to 'can' asparagus without it being mushy and terrible tasting. Like spinach. Blecch!

My ex-girlfriend makes a dish with fresh asparagus, shrimp, pennine pasta, fresh tomato chunks, white wine and grated Romano that knocks my socks off. After steaming the asparagus, she makes it all in a large saute pan and it only takes a few minutes. I've had it several times and it was to-die-for. Sadly, she's not my girlfriend any more and I can't get the recipe... but one can always experiment.

[chris]

Recipe

maybe she got the recipe from here.

[Clipper]

Yum! I definitely am adding this one to the recipe file.