The Cooking Thread

[PeteB]

Chicken Karahi!

[Mark Bolam]

Little snack straight after work.

 

Asparagus wrapped in Parma ham and pan-fried in butter.

 

 

[sime42]

That would certainly work for me. Where are you getting asparagus from this early in the year though?

[Mark Bolam]

Reduced to clear in local shop, must be foreign.

I’ll check in a bit, I bought 2 packs!

[sime42]

Kenya I'll put my money on..

 

Beware the Asparagus Piss!

 

 

[peds]

Delicious. I used to make hundreds of those at a time as canapés for fancy weddings. Take one sparagus, snap it, peel the skin off below the tip with a y-peeler to expose the yellowy-green flesh beneath, do that for 1.4 times the number of guests (bit of a ballache for weddings in triple figures). Drop them into a large pan of salted water for 3 to 4 minutes, fish out with a spider into a large bowl of ice water, chill, drain, dry.

When dry enough, wrap each spear in cured ham to hide the yellowy-green flesh you exposed earlier (err, yes, actually it was very important to peel it... don't ask questions you don't understand the answer to), line them up as you go with spear tips level, and cut them all down to the exact same length, removing the stump end as necessary. Stack the spears in one box between blue towel, put the trimmings in another box and tuck it into your go-home shoe.

 

When you get home from work at 3am, fry a handful of the asparagus and ham trimmings, add cooked pasta, add cream, add parmesan. Egg yolk if you want.

 

(Pro tip: save the woody butt ends and peelings, make a quick velouté soup with them, pass through a sieve or chinoise, load into a spuma gun, charge with 2 hits of laughing gas and squirt it into a shot glass or, better yet, an espresso cup with one of your dainty little ham spears on the saucer instead of the teaspoon, and you've got an asparagus cappuccino, a fancy little amuse bouche that will distract your esteemed guests from their tedious lives for just long enough for them to consider tucking a few more dollar bills into your g-string at the end of the night.

[Mark Bolam]

10 hours ago, sime42 said:

Kenya I'll put my money on..

 

Beware the Asparagus Piss!

 

 

 

Peru!

[sime42]

Well, bugger me!

[Mark Bolam]

Don’t worry, I saved the planet by using my local village shop.

[Peasgood]

13 hours ago, sime42 said:

Kenya I'll put my money on..

Peru, that's where the asparagus in Sainsburys this morning was from.