In article >,
modom > wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:14:51 GMT, jay > wrote:

> >The asparagus look really nice and green. Did you trim the asparagus ends?
>
> I popped them where they wanted to break. It was fun to do, by the
> way.

I don't know how to do this. I thought I did, for years. Then one day
I realized that it wants to break at the tip. I took some of the butts
that I was about to toss, and bit into them. They were tender, crisp
and sweet! I realized that about half of what I was going to toss was
perfectly good.

A few years later I got a really nice bunch of asparagus. Right away my
wife starts in on me with the "break it off and throw it away" routine.
I broke a bottom off and ate it. It was just fine!

--
Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA