Today's Recipe

[fabrisse]

Also a picnic food.

Prepare asparagus (sorry gileswench) by taking one end of the spear in each hand and gently bending it. It will snap at a natural spot. Either discard the thick end or, if you do this, save it for making vegetable broth.

Line the asparagus in a single row on a broiler pan. Liberally douse the spears with olive oil. Salt and fresh ground pepper should be applied. Put them under the broiler for three minutes if they're the very skinny Italian spears, five to seven minutes for the standard green spears, and seven to twelve minutes if they're very thick.

Set them on a platter and squeeze blood orange wedges over them. If you don't have blood oranges, squeeze any standard orange over them. If all you can find are navel oranges, mix the juice with a little lemon juice.

This was the first recipe I ever tried to redact.

Comments

[fabrisse.livejournal.com]

For a summer picnic, I really prefer the citrus. With the cheese, it's more of a hot food to me.

Both ways are delicious, though.

[disbelief11.livejournal.com]

Oops, you're totally right - I forgot the subject was picnic food. Both good, but the cheesy one is a hot dish for sure.