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Default Saturday Dinner 11/28/20

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:08:48 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2020-11-28 7:48 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> On 11/28/2020 7:24 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Looks good.Â* I did an asparagus and shrimp pasta stir fry with lots of
>>> garlic. I think I nailed it this time.It was the best I have ever done.
>>>
>>>

>> Sounds good!Â* I'd love to get my hands on some good asparagus, not the
>> pencil-thin stalks that show up at local supermarkets.Â* Even when it's
>> in season I never see nice fat stalks of asparagus.
>>

>
>This recipe actually works better with the thins stalks. My wife had
>picked up a weird bunch of asparagus yesterday, about 2/3 of it was nice
>thick stalks and the other 1/3 was thin. We had half of the thick stuff
>last night with salmon steaks. I used the skinny stuff in the stir fry
>tonight, and we will have the rest of the thicker stalks tomorrow with
>beef tenderloins. I should add that this off season asparagus was
>pretty good. It wasn't as good as fresh local stuff but pretty darned
>good.


Thanks for the detailed review.