Family and Food

In spite of schoolwork and work work I managed to make a visit with my family at the bay for Easter Sunday. Being a family of mostly agnostics, Easter didn't actually have much to do with it, but we did enjoy a good dinner of rotisserie chicken, and started off with Dad's Cold Asparagus Soup.


Here is Dad, pictured with soup

























Made with the "rag-ends" of your asparagus, it doesn't force you to choose between eating asparagus and making some soup, but rather putting to use what would otherwise be thrown away.

We all happily sipped at our goblets of cold, creamy soup although Dad, highly pleased with his culinary product, drank them, and finished most of everyone else's too.

The Recipe, in Dad's words:

Cut bottom half of Asparagus stalks into 1" pieces and put in pan with water and boil til soft. Add some chicken stock and simmer a good while (an hour or more). Let cool a bit and put into blender and puree. Put thru a sieve using wooden spoon to shove it thru. Pour liquid back in pan. Add milk or 1/2 and 1/2. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add a pat of butter. Warm but dont boil. Serve, or put in refrigerator and serve cold the next day.

Another shot, with a view over the bay