With our adventures of having an #asparagus crop this year for the first time, I wanted to share an idea about how to use that asparagus without boiling the life out of it!
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I've made a handful of posts regarding asparagus. You can find the first one here.
I'm going to show you what a typical breakfast looks like at our home since the asparagus has been around.
I've meant to write more regarding food and stuff like that, and I will have a weekly review that I intend to do on canned, or prepper food for fun sake.
I love food. From a child it's been something that I've enjoyed a ton - it makes sense that I share this with the Steemit audience.
Now here's my disclaimers.
- I am not a chef. The strategies that I use in the kitchen are sometimes pretty barbaric, and most always just entirely made up as I go along.
- This one could make some people go mental: I don't measure much of ANYTHING. With the exception of some baking, where I will obey the rules in a ballpark kind of way. So I say this so that anyone looking to snag a recipe will realize it's more an idea that I'll produce than something you can write down on a flash card and slap in your little recipe box. (Please tell me that you have one of these, take a picture and post it - it would provide me such joy!)
- We try to live healthy lifestyle, and firmly believe that a large amount of butter is essential to this type of life. :D
Asparagus in my Hashbrowns
I start things off the way I do most all breakfast. Put some butter in there (you can sub out with oil or coconut butter of course) and chop up some onions, and in asparagus, and put on to about medium heat.
We don't always harvest the asparagus right when we ought to, so sometimes it gets a little on the long side. We cut down the stems to a good size, then freeze them. The lower part that we remove and don't freeze I like to cut into small pieces, and use that for our breakfast, or potentially casserole, or mixed vegetables, etc.
So far it looks like a clean asparagus shoot that's cut and frozen will cook up just as good as a store bought, flash frozen and pesticide enriched asparagus. I'm ultra happy about this, because it means in the future we can enjoy asparagus all year round. We got a little ambitious with selling some of our harvest this year, which meant the garden provided a decent income on a daily basis for us. However, now we are a tad short on supply, so I suspect next year we won't be selling our asparagus.
Over the years I have changed my opinion time and time again about what onion ought to be used for breakfasts like these. This year it's yellow onion. DEFINITELY yellow.
Asparagus or no asparagus, I like to cook this down until it starts to brown. While it's cooking i'll put a touch of pepper in there. Then we slap some diced potatoes in there.
Share your rage over our hypocrisy now: these are store bought hashbrown diced potatoes. This is a temporary thing however as we now have seventeen 42 foot rows full of potatoes that will provide all sorts of breakfast yummy for the rest of the year post-harvest.
Put some more pepper on there.
That's about right as far as I'm concerned. But be your own person - have it how you like it!
And some of this one. You can use any salt you like really, or none if you choose due to bp issues or whatever. My father has some bp troubles, but swears this realsalt stuff doesn't affect him the same way that other ones do. There's no bleach or added iodine to the realsalt brand I'm pretty sure. We still love Iodine though, right guys?
Then I just keep browning until it's good, and the other bits are ready. This is about right I say.
Of course some farm fresh eggs, and then the magic. Caviar.
I wasn't sure that I'd ever live a life where I could say that I ate Caviar for breakfast every day, but this is the type of baller I am now.
It's called Kalles, and it's imported from Sweden. As a rule you either love the stuff, or you hate it. From the moment I had it I was in love.
It cost about four bucks for a tube, you can pick it up at the local ikea in North America.
The sweeds put it basically on hard boiled eggs and that's it. I put it on eggs period, and sometimes just eat it because.
Alright, so that's how I do breakfast not talking about bacon or coffee or anything like that.
If you found this post useless and annoying, please let me know. It's my first cooking post that I've done that is ultra simple and not packed full of a lot of information.
As always, leave your thoughts, comments, suggestions and the like bellow. I'll be happy to engage with anyone who does.
Imma go eat something now.