Salut/Hi Sojourner,

As a follow up to my last.

le/on Mon, 03 May 2004 23:45:35 +0100, tu disais/you said:-

>have a foolproof way of freezing the lovely wild woodland asparagus
>that are available in France from now for the next month or so?

When we went into our local vegetable and fruit shop ("local" is pretty
relative, as it's 25 miles away) they had - quel coincidence - some wild
woodland asparagus, so I dug deep into my pocket and bought a little bunch.

>variety. Then, a couple of years ago, we discovered the small wild
>woodland variety. It beat anything we had ever tasted before - and
>the simpler the cooking, the finer the taste.

I'd agree that it's wonderful, and as so often is the case, the simpler the
better. We just cooked it in the asparagus kettle with some salted water,
and compared it with our own green asparagus. Yes it was better, without a
doubt, though I'm not sure it was ‚¬2.60 better. We just served it - as it
deserved - with a little melted slghtly salted butter over it and ate it
with our fingers. A delight. But I'm sure you'll not be able to preserve it
by freezing.

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