Its sparrow grass season.

[Bbbananas]

How do you like yours?
Simple with just butter & a sprinkling of salt?
Or with berenaise or hollandaise sauce?
Or just plain?

Do you like it al dente (almost hard still to the bite) or floppy & well done?

[Jemisa]

Eh?

Jem

[marval]

Asparagus was also corrupted in some places to "sparrow grass";

[Bbbananas]

Asparagus jem. My avatar should show a particularly appetising juicy one dripping with butter, or oil.

I used to have an asparagus bed when we lived on our farm. Endless supplies of it all through May. Our wee was positively green.

[jackthehat]

Having moved oop north and away from the *countryside*, I miss the 'Sparrers grarss' season.......I'd stop on my way home from work a couple of times a week to buy some from a local Farm Shop.......

[rowanwitch]

I have been spoiling myself and bringing some back from every trip from the supermarket... so far its been steamed, in soup, in a baked omelette, sadly on fat free diet so no oil or butter,,, cold in salads.... love thestuff

[steg]

i would have it with chicken, even custard tastes good with chicken

[mccfluff]

mmmm love it dripping with butter, or with a poached egg, must get someone the way home

[steg]

oh, your avatar looks like a sick boaby

[mccfluff]

me? what's a boaby?

[McMouse]

At the weekend had some wrapped in prosciutto and then dipped in a home-made vinaigrette. Soooper.

[mccfluff]

def not me then

[steg]

no fluffy, sallas

[ChuckFickens]

Note to self, when somebody else posts a note to self not to google something don't let curiosity get the better.

[woofgang]

I love asparagus any way and somewhere between hard and soft not sauces bearnaise or hollandaise though...yeuch....
I believe the sparrow grass name came from the cockney workers at covent garden where it is still called "grass"

[petengelda]

Recently planted 12 crowns down our allotment - just have to wait three years before I can pick it! I'll have good English Asparagus with butter, it seems a shame to do it any other way, but the bundles of thinner Spanish Asparagus makes a damn fine soup - http://www.deliaonlin...s/asparagus-soup.html