Asparagus again

Is it possible to tire of asparagus?

We have been eating it almost every day since May 1. One more week remains before the season ends and we allow the stalks to grow tall for the rest of the summer.

It was of course a great ride (and our neighbors were glad of the excess) but I think I've had my fill--in just about every preparation imaginable! What we pick this week will largely go toward a preparation for freezing for winter soup stock, etc.

Now, it's on to the rest of the gardening season. I am in awe of a potato patch that looks almost like something from the Little Shop of Horrors, as the plants grow inches per day.

I believe I could get tired of asparagus, if served too much.

I'd like to try that trick with morels, though.

I usually get tired of asparagus by the end of the season, I like it but don't love it.

Never had that problem with tomatoes, eggplant, or morels (not even close with morels).

On morels: when I moved to the Finger Lakes a local winemaker rhapsodied over local morels and then refused to tell me where I could find them in the area. Took me a while to uncover the places, but now they are overrun with tourists!

If I really liked another local widl find, fiddleheads, I could overdose on them, but I'm not crazy enough about that tannic wild fern.

We've eaten our share of asparagus over the last month and a half or so, but not enough to get tired of it. I couldn't eat it every day, though - that would be too much.

I hear you Thomas. I can sometimes get fiddleheads in the greenmarket, and I don't.

How are you on ramps, that other harbinger of spring?

I hear you Thomas. I can sometimes get fiddleheads in the greenmarket, and I don't.

How are you on ramps, that other harbinger of spring?

They're ok, but not something I spend time seeking.

My doctor last week, when it was cold here, said we don't get spring in the Finger Lakes; we get March followed by summer!

[Jenise]

Is it possible to tire of asparagus?

Yes. Or more to the point: tired of asparagus pee. It bothers me enough to eat it less frequently than flavor and availability would otherwise dictate.

Is it possible to tire of asparagus?

Yes. Or more to the point: tired of asparagus pee. It bothers me enough to eat it less frequently than flavor and availability would otherwise dictate.

I have a clear memory of the first time that smell registered in my brain...in the rest room of a restaurant called the Public House in Washington, DC in 1977. Not that I hadn't eaten them before; just that I hadn't been that much in tune yet...

[Jenise]

I have a clear memory of the first time that smell registered in my brain...in the rest room of a restaurant called the Public House in Washington, DC in 1977. Not that I hadn't eaten them before; just that I hadn't been that much in tune yet...

This could be the start of an interesting thread. I was in a restroom at SeaTac airport. But it wasn't me: that is, I'd been noticing an unusual aroma for a couple of weeks and was thinking I should see a doctor, and there I was at the airport and THAT EXACT SAME SMELL was coming from the stall next door. I didn't know yet what was causing it, but at least I knew it wasn't just me!