Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

On 12/5/2010 2:55 PM, DogDiesel wrote:
Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.


Sounds like an awful combination.

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"DogDiesel" wrote:

Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

Been known to use canned asparagus.

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Crab and Asparagus Soup
With green onions and cilantro



Ingredients


2 Tbls. Peanut Oil
1/2 cup Shallots peeled and sliced
1 lb. Crab meat
4 cups Chicken stock
1 lb. Asparagus
2 eggs beaten
2 Tbls. Fish sauce
3 Tbls. Soy sauce

1 Tbls. Corn starch
I Tbls. Water
To taste white pepper


3 Tbls. Chopped Cilantro
3 Tbls. Chopped green onions ( Green Part only )
1 Cup pea sprouts


Method

1. Sweat the shallots in the oil over medium heat. Add the crab and
Asparagus sauté 2 minutes stir gently

2. Add chicken stock bring to a boil . Slowly pour in eggs while
stirring gently. Use a Crockpot pot.

3. Combine the corn starch and water in a small bowl and mix to make a
slurry. Pour into the boiling soup while stirring and cook five minutes.

4. Remove from heat and add the soy sauce, fish sauce and white pepper.

5. Ladle into warm deep bowls and garnish with Cilantro, green Onions,
Pea sprouts and tempura fried Asparagus spears. Serve immediately.

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

Daniel Moynihan and Dennis Kucinich in 2012 !

"DogDiesel" wrote:

Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks

I assume you mean green beans? (The dried ones cook/can just fine).
Those are two things that just don't can well.
Add peas to the list.

Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic
Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

DogDiesel wrote:
Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

Canned asparagus is compost not food. "Fresh" asparagus from the
supermarket can be acceptable but it isn't good. Asparagus you cut 10
minutes ago is the real thing and a sublime experience as long as you don't
overcook it.

David

"DogDiesel" wrote in message
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Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

Canned beans are ghastly and not worth eating. Canned asparagus is such a
pale imitation of the fresh product that it's only good as an ingredient
mixed with lots of other food.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"DogDiesel" wrote in message
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Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

Canned beans are ghastly and not worth eating. Canned asparagus is such a
pale imitation of the fresh product that it's only good as an ingredient
mixed with lots of other food.

Well thanks, i got that right.

Diesel.

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:04:56 +1100, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

DogDiesel wrote:
Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

Canned asparagus is compost not food. "Fresh" asparagus from the
supermarket can be acceptable but it isn't good. Asparagus you cut 10
minutes ago is the real thing and a sublime experience as long as you don't
overcook it.

Even better than cooked is to break off a spear and eat it in the
garden. That assumes that they have not been sprayed.
--
USA
North Carolina Foothills
USDA Zone 7a

Well, it's just canned food! In a gardening forum ... I prefer fresh things!

Molie wrote:
Well, it's just canned food! In a gardening forum ... I prefer fresh
things!


Fresh is not always possible. In prefer canned foods over foods that are
out of season that is shipped from all over the world. Fresh is better
if it is locally grown.

There is the newsgroup: rec.food.preserving
You might find that group very useful. They know allot about what you
seek.

The bible of food preservation book is:
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative
Recipes for Today [Hardcover]

http://www.amazon.com/Ball-Complete-...1825819&sr=1-1

Canning most vegetables requires a pressure canner, not just a pressure
cooker.
However, pickling vegetables is the best way to go. I prefer pickled
asparagus over pressure canned. I prefer the taste of my own canned
foods over store bought. Home canning does not have all of the chemical
preservatives that destroy flavor. Also your choices of canned food
selection is vast compared what you can find in the supermarkets. It
does require work to make your own canned foods.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)

DogDiesel wrote:

Anyone besides me think canned beans

I have tried home made pintos and canned pintos. When I cooked them the
difference was not as large as I hoped. Some relatives do a much better
job cooking pintos and the difference is large. So it depends on the
experience of the cook.

Most of the time stores near me have a wider variety of bean types
canned than dried.

and asparagus sucks.

Comparing canned and fresh asparagus is sad. Over the years the variety
of fresh veggies available in stores has grown and grown. A half
century ago the availability of fresh veggies in groceries during the
winter was limited enough that canned asparagus wasn't that bad.

I do like asparagus soup. It's easy with canned. It does work as an
ingredient in certain recipes. Not 100% bad news but closer and closer
as transportation gets easier and easier.

In article , Molie.7754e36
@gardenbanter.co.uk says...


Well, it's just canned food! In a gardening forum ... I prefer fresh
things!

London *Ontario*Canada* here...

Home canned looks pretty good when you're up to your waste in snow.

Right now we have over a metre of snow blanketing the garden ...and the
city's been more or less shut down for 3 days.

That said, with some determination and a shovel I could harvest some
kale or some pak choi(which was still OK pre-snowfall). I just hate
ruining the view right now.

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phorbin wrote:
I just hate ruining the view right now.

I know what you mean and hope your well stocked in useful things.

Ps Santa is bringing me snowshoes soon. This so I can walk about and
reduce the snow build up on my perennials. Last year stunned us.

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Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

"Always tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain.

On Dec 5, 2:55*pm, "DogDiesel" wrote:
Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

I like canned better then frozen!

Bill who putters wrote:
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phorbin wrote:
I just hate ruining the view right now.

I know what you mean and hope your well stocked in useful things.

Ps Santa is bringing me snowshoes soon. This so I can walk about
and
reduce the snow build up on my perennials. Last year stunned us.

Remembering the past. When I went to Michigan Tech University in the
Upper Peninsula I went snow shoeing by myself on the golf grounds. I was
curious and I took them off and jumped... I was up to my neck in snow.
It took a half hour to get back on those shoes. I was well dressed
though. Snow eventually came up to my second floor dorm room window. I
loved seeing the northern lights every night high in the sky during the
winter.

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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)