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.

--
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

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.

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

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.

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden

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

On Dec 9, 8:25*am, phorbin wrote:
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.

Phorbin
I think that you didn't mean quite what you said.
But it is rather funny that way.
Although maybe just a little bit "gross'"

LOL
Emilie

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 11:25:01 -0500, phorbin wrote:

In article , Molie.7754e36
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.

Strange weather we're having isn't it?
We must be in a snow-proof area since everywhere North, South, East &
West of us is just getting dumped on.
I'm about 50 miles east of you, just outside Cambridge and we can
still see the soil in our garden.
My daughter phoned the other day from NS, concerned about the amount
of snow in the area and I told her it was pretty bad alright, drifts
were almost up to 1/2 inch deep here ;-).

Ross.
Southern Ontario, Canada.
AgCanada Zone 5b
43º 17' 26.75" North
80º 13' 29.46" West

phorbin wrote:
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.

i do so love the unintentinal puns...

(read "waste" as "butthole") thanks
for the giggle.

i like canned cream of asparagus soup,
but i would not even compare it to fresh
picked from the garden crunched in the
teeth immediately version of asparagus.
some things just should not be crossed
(like apples and oranges).


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.

it's well refrigerated for a while at least.

we are finally getting enough snow to cover
the ground which is going to be just in time for
the single digit temperatures.

haha, just read below that DanL is another
Techie. i lived in da Hoton for 15 years.
1 meter of snow is just getting warmed up.
the year before i left we had over 220 inches
of snow.

i remember kayaking along a shoreline of
Lake Superior in early July and seeing a
snowbank on the shoreline.


songbird (now mid michigan, usa

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ...

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


I like it raw when its picked from the garden

"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.