After Andy took a kitty bath…
…he stopped by the ottoman.
He was tentative, not certain about his next step.
Oh yeah! It’s a bit warm in the apartment today and Andy chose a spot by the fan to cool off!
Andy probably stops by the shower because it is cooler than other places in the apartment on warm days outside. Yeah, it was 86 degrees F/30 degrees C inside today, so I had to address the heat issue for my comfort, too.
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The asparagus comes from Peru. I didn’t even check the price because asparagus is one of my very favorite foods, especially covered in a cheese sauce with chopped hard-boiled eggs on toast.
I got the egg-to-cheese sauce ratio a bit off this time, but it still was yummy! I tried breaking the stalks into bite-sized pieces this time instead of steaming asparagus stalks whole. I think I like it better this way for ease of eating, though whole stalks make a better presentation.
Is it just me or can you see a kitty cat with green front paws and whole wheat bread ears and hind legs in this photo? Whew! I need to get out more!
I wonder why we eat “Spargel” in a green state in the USA and Germans go for it in a white form. If you are unaware of white asparagus, here’s some information:
What Is White Asparagus? (eatingwell.com)
If you live in countries other than Germany or the USA, do you eat asparagus and which kind? White does require a special growing technique, making it typically scarcer and more expensive than green, but the white asparagus is very yummy, too, a bit sweeter.
Spargel is such a springtime mainstay in Germany, especially the white version which is sweeter and more tender. Germans are serious about their asparagus. Enjoy it while it’s in season. Stay cool. I can’t fathom 86F in February! 🙂
I recall how excited the Germans were when Spargel season as on!
Absolutely. It’s a favorite time of year and they’ll go out of their way to find cafes that serve it.
Sorry, I did not see a Kitty in the food picture. I do like the picture of Andy contemplating his next move. He looks like he could be a Model. As for Asparagus; that and Brussel Sprouts are two of my most hated vegetables.
That’s how it goes with those two veggies: love them or hate them!
The weather being that warm in January is strange to a Michigander. Andy looks comfortable to me. We have asparagus occasionally.
It’s strange here, too. This is more typically subzero weather time in Nebraska. Historically, he coming month is the coldest of the year here.
Yes, asparagus is a very under-used food here in England. I lived for three months with a French family when I was a student, though, and it must have been their No 1 vegetable!
It is seasonal (of course!) and fairly expensive here. When I was growing up, it seems like it must have been a cheap meal the way I fix it because my Mom fixed fairly often.
A curious fact: many homesteaders in the 1800s-early 1900s plants asparagus and iris in their gardens. You can find wild patches of both throughout the Great Plains of the USA, There are people who locate these asparagus patches, in particular, and try to keep their locations secret so they have full access to the output when it appears in the spring.
https://utopia.org/guide/wild-asparagus/
Caught Mr Andy with his tongue out – yay!
This looks like a scrumptious meal, and yes, I can see the kitty cat.
We did have asparagus in Odessa, but it was a rarity and a delicacy. I used to bring it from Georgia where it was more common.
It seems to be a bit between a delicacy and an occasional change of vegetables here. It usually is at least $2 a pound/ 454 grams for US- and Mexican-grown asparagus to almost $6 a pound/ 454 grams when it first comes from Peru. If you wait, the Peruvian asparagus goes down to reasonable cost, though it’s reduced for a reason – it looks pretty beat up from being on the shelf too long! I buy it when it looks fresh, paying the market price without concern how high it is since this is a favorite food.
I’m glad to see another asparagus fan! Last night, I caught some old episode of Iron Chef and the judges, unfamiliar with the episode’s main ingrdient – asparagus, hated almost everything!
I can’t imagine that! It seems like a reasonably familiar food, one that is edible raw in salads, in soups, the way I fix it, and, no doubt, amazing ways I can imagine when prepared by Iron Chef-level chefs. I also get giddy over Brussels sprouts, another one of those “like it or hate it” veggies.
A recently read that the current popularity of brussels sptouts is that over the past 20 years they were ‘secretly’ hybrid to remove the bitter flavot. The article suggested thatceveryone give them another try. I did and found them to be tasty!
Interesting! I see them used on many food shows, usually roasted, which would be great eating if I ever fixed them any way but steamed with cheese sauce or plain in butter sauce.
Even though the roasted ONE that I ate was fine, I couldn’t get pastcmy hangup about them being awful and didn’t eat more. But I have a ton of food sensitivities, including cabbage, so it was probably for the best.
I’m sorry! Food sensitivities are a problem for many of us, it seems. Andy has to avoid several foods, so I stick with chicken-flavored foods, one that he can handle. My late father developed sensitivity to peanuts, one of his favorite treats.
Peanuts are my worst GI trigger but I still can’t resist them! I keep.lots of meds on hand!
My Dad was that way. He’d try to see if he could handle one peanut or a small amount of peanut butter, but quickly realized it was food he couldn’t eat again!
I didn’t realize how bad it was till Thai peanut sauce caused a bad reaction. I miss PBJ sandwiches!!!
PBJ is my favorite way to eat it, though I also mix it into oatmeal and mashed sweet potatoes.
Mashed sweet potatoes with peanut butter?!? I can’t imagine that! I’d give it a try ifnot for the now-known side effect!
They both have that earthy quality, and the combination is ok if you like both. I add a bit of nutmeg to it as well and butte.
I didn’t see it at first, but I do now.
I’m happy you did!
I see the kitty too! Your eggs and asparagus look delicious. I love asparagus.
It’s delicious that way, Correne. Give it a try! It’s basically steamed asparagus on toast. Make a Bechamel sauce, season to taste with salt, pepper, grated cheese, Worchester sauce, nutmeg or however you want it, chop two, three hard-boiled eggs and add to the sauce, then enjoy! I suppose soft-boiled eggs would work, too, if you like runny yolk.
I’ll try it, thank you.
I do see the kitty cat! And also, adorable pictures of Andy!
Good! I’m glad I wasn’t hallucinating! LOL!
You’re right – there is a kitty cat outline on your plate !
Whew! Another one seeing the kitty! We are not alone!
Andy’s coat is growing out nicely! 86 degrees inside? That is a tad warm!
The plate of egg, chose asparagus and toast looks good. We grow some asparagus here on the farm, including one purple variety.
That should read cheese and asparagus. The auto correct makes some interesting “error” corrections!
Auto-correct can be tenacious and arbitrary at times! Another thing that drives me nuts on (Facebook) is auto-fill. “Andy” the kitty name brings up “Andy Fxxxxx”, one of the people I follow and who follows me since our days on daily booth. Since I am a hunt-and-peck typist, I look at thee keyboard more than not, and often have the wrong Andy in a posted comment.
I recommend the asparagus steamed and fixed that way if you like cheese sauce on asparagus. I like it that that way so much, I never have any around to fix as a soup or uncooked in a salad.
I love cheese, but can’t eat dairy anymore. Triggers a lot of inflammation.
I’m fortunate in that nothing bothers me…yet! I know my father was allergic to peanuts after eating them in all forms in large quantities for years.
Yes, 86 is very warm. Read my response to John about how that happened.
I don’t see any response to John in the Reader. Not sure why.
Damn it! It was very long and a pain writing because it fit in the category of “too much information that is exhausting to to get into”. Damn WordPress! Not only was it involved and paragraphs long, it disappeared once, then I had to recreate it! NOW, I have to recreate it a third time.
Here goes: There are six temperature controls that have to be adjusted in this apartment. Because I am LAZY and the controls in two places require some gymnastics to reach, I LEAVE the temperatures set for the typical weather in this area.
Because I live in an apartment built in WWII for temporary housing for people building an airbase used to train D-Day glider and paratrooper personnel, and subsequent owners of the apartment never upgraded the insulation, the six controls were set high because of extreme cold earlier in the month.
Then we came into this atypical warm weather. Where the extreme cold resulted in low 70s inside as the heaters struggled to keep the interior warm, the same settings that I struggle to change in my main living areas because I have physical disabilities were LEFT AT THE HIGH SETTINGS FOR EXTREME COLD WEATHERF.
Consequently, it was 86 DEGREES INSIDE WHEN THE WEATHER WAS ATYPICALLY WARM because I didn’t feel physically up to making the hyper extensions necessary to turn the controls down.
February is the coldest month of the year here, and it is more likely to be BELOW ZERO weather than a sauna.
This required a fourth recreation, thanks to WordPress wiping it out a third time. I will ignore all future questions about comments I make about this apartment.
Sorry if this is a bit gruff, but it was a tiring process to answer once, then I went through the same process three more times.
No worries, Doug. I’d be upset, too. Many is the time I wish I had a fairy godmother wand to fix things.
It was 70 degrees here today, definitely atypical for January here. We had the windows open.
RRI left the door open here.
No kidding!
Why is it 86 degrees in your home, Doug? Or, did I misread this? I don’t like asparagus…
John, answering this question turned into an ordeal, thanks to WordPress wiping it out three times before I posted it. I copied it from what I told Lavinia, who couldn’t find an answer to you that didn’t save. Sorry if it’s a bit gruff. I am thoroughly sick of the question after having to recreate a long response four times to get to this:
Damn it! It was very long and a pain writing because it fit in the category of “too much information that is exhausting to get into”. Damn WordPress! Not only was it involved and paragraphs long, it disappeared once, then I had to recreate it! NOW, I have to recreate it a third time.
Here goes: There are six temperature controls that have to be adjusted in this apartment. Because I am LAZY and the controls in two places require some gymnastics to reach, I LEAVE the temperatures set for the typical weather in this area.
Because I live in an apartment built in WWII for temporary housing for people building an airbase used to train D-Day glider and paratrooper personnel, and subsequent owners of the apartment never upgraded the insulation, the six controls were set high because of extreme cold earlier in the month.
Then we came into this atypical warm weather. Where the extreme cold resulted in low 70s inside as the heaters struggled to keep the interior warm, the same settings that I struggle to change in my main living areas because I have physical disabilities were LEFT AT THE HIGH SETTINGS FOR EXTREME COLD WEATHERF.
Consequently, it was 86 DEGREES INSIDE WHEN THE WEATHER WAS ATYPICALLY WARM because I didn’t feel physically up to making the hyper extensions necessary to turn the controls down.
February is the coldest month of the year here, and it is more likely to be BELOW ZERO weather than a sauna.
This required a fourth recreation, thanks to WordPress wiping it out a third time. I will ignore all future questions about comments I make about this apartment.
Sorry if this is a bit gruff, but it was a tiring process to answer once, then I went through the same process three more times.
No worries, Doug, I feel your frustration. Your home has a very interesting history. If I lived much closer, I would be helping you if I could, Doug. 🤙🏻☺️
It is a pain every weather extreme requires six controls to be adjusted.
I agree, just thinking about it. Maybe the complex or home owner can change this so that you have one control. I know how terribly expensive that is since I had to replace the 25 year old heating and cooling system in this house two years ago. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
That’s a fact, and landlords are notoriously tightwads who have to face legal challenge or something happening that becomes public knowledge and rebuke before changes happen. Air conditioning isn’t by central air here, but by wall units in two of the six rooms, i.e. you have to live in those two rooms in the worst heat.
That’s not good at all, Doug! This makes me a bit angry.
A friend who works at such things is looking into the landlord’s culpability for a few of the issues I have. Depending on what kind of grants they have and with which state and federal agencies, they may be in trouble.
That works! 🤙🏻
That looks good
I never make it the same way, but every way has been tasty and agreeable. A plain Bechamel sauce with a touch of nutmeg, salt and pepper, and a sprinkle of paprika on top before serving is just as tasty as this variation with cheese.
wow we love asparagus too… but we have none in our stores… enjoy a super meal what brings some good spring moments…
It must be available from Bundesrepublik Deutschland fairly soon. It seems the white asparagus season is mid-April through the end of June. The USA imports most of the Peruvian asparagus, I think I read, but it must be available elsewhere. if it meets certain standards. The EU counties probably would ban it.
Peruvian asparagus is available pretty much all year round. There are some issues with Peruvian asparagus, but the reality of living at all makes the seven-and-a-half-billion human beings pests on earth. Reduce that mass to a couple hundred thousand, and the Garden of Edan would bloom again. (Don’t get me started! LOL!)
https://www.asparagus-lover.com/Peruvian-asparagus.html
https://www.asparagus-lover.com/Peruvian-asparagus.html