Quiche (Asparagus and Variations)
Wild asparagus is a species with a long history of use in India and Asia as a botanical medicine. (No wonder those ladies were enthusiastically picking it!)
Thin asparagus can be eaten without peeling it, but if it’s the fatter asparagus you’ll want to peel it before you cook it.
Asparagus is 93 percent water.
In France, asparagus is most often served with Hollandaise sauce.
Depending on which report you read somewhere between 22 percent and 50 percent of the population report having pungent pee after they eat asparagus. Researchers have never been able to figure out if only some people have pungent pee or only some people can smell pungent pee. It’s still a mystery.
Asparagus is reported to show a lowering of disease risk for things like heart disease and Type 2 diabetes. So eat up!
Asparagus, like other vegetables doesn’t instantly “die” when it’s picked. It still has metabolic activity but it does spoil pretty quickly. It loses its moisture. So that’s why you see it at the grocery store standing in water. Asparagus should be eaten within 48 hours of purchase for best flavor.
Asparagus is such a big cash crop in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta that they have an asparagus festival every year. So does Hart, Michigan. In the Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire, England, they produce more asparagus than any other region in northern Europe so they have a week long asparagus festival and the locals dress up as asparagus and parade around.
So what will you be dressed as for Halloween this year? Something edible? There’s nothing wrong with planning ahead.
Quiche (Asparagus and Variations)
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