Roasted Asparagus

Recipe: roasted asparagus

I fancy waking up first and famous mild and peeking from our master bedroom loft out at the mountains. I fancy seeing what the climate is doing or has done: snow, rain, clouds, sun, wind (this one no longer so famous), frost. This morning used to be rather the deal with because it snowed and used to be nonetheless snowing! I’d possess had my boots in hand, ready to switch out the door for some skiing, but I had a lunch date in Boulder. I did tackle to catch a 1.5 hour exercise as a replace, so I don’t feel too disadvantaged 🙂

On the ability down, I spotted that my metropolis used to be mantled in pretty white with diffuse sun gracing us. You never know if here is the closing replacement for many months or if we’ll catch a repeat performance in about a days… Private camera, will shoot.

Kellie and I went to Brasserie 1010 for lunch. Oddly sufficient, everyone I know calls it Brassiere 1010 or the Bra. It has terrific meals and common to crap carrier. I lawful fancy getting out when I’m feeling higher, fancy to meet up with chums and have a finger on the heartbeat of Boulder – a vibrant and bustling metropolis about 1/2 a season sooner than us who are dwelling in the sticks.

The soup hit the assign for me. Sadly, I mediate it stuffed me up. I believed the sliders would be smaller and pain up eating half of of two – which equals one slider. No worries, Jeremy will gladly discontinue them off later. It used to be lawful too famous meals. My eyes are ability the hell bigger than my abdomen is now. Alternatively, I am now intriguing on making minute buns to total some sliders of my private because I possess that minute servings fascination. Aren’t they cute? The plate had a french dip, hamburger, and meatball slider. That meatball used to be bleeping mountainous. Why discontinue they name them sliders? Our waitress sucked.

After lunch I ran some errands and then did a small analysis for a future post. Neato.

On the ability home, riding up the canyon, I pulled over lawful earlier than the Narrows the assign the canyon… narrows, and steepens but it’s a dicey discipline to pull over. I fancy the scent of the air when it snows. More than that, I fancy the stumble on of the canyon after a snow or a freezing fog. It appears to be like fancy candy to me, it makes me want to stroll and breathe the frigid air.

Be aware my rant against skinny asparagus? I procured some fat asparagus spears lately. If I don’t notion to relish the asparagus lawful away, I most steadily build the bases in a vessel of water in the fridge. If there isn’t room for that, then I’ll wrap the bases of the stalks in moist paper towels and plastic.

After rinsing the spears, I snapped the woody ends off into the compost and tossed the asparagus with olive oil, salt, pepper, and a few lemon zest.

I fancy how roasting became the asparagus an very ultimate deep green color. The stalks had been juicy and sweet – almost a meal in itself. Jeremy gave them a thumbs up and loved the added twist of the lemon zest. I used to be lawful overjoyed to nosh on some spring greens, even though it ability asparagus pee down the boulevard.

Roasted Asparagus


[print recipe]

2 lbs. fat asparagus spears, washed and trimmed

2-3 tbsps olive oil

salt and pepper to model

zest of 1 lemon

Preheat oven to 425°F. Toss asparagus with remaining diagram till spears are neatly-covered. Lay asparagus on a baking sheet or in a baking pan in a single layer. Roast in oven for 18-20 minutes (for fat spears – sever time for skinny spears). Serve hot.