Chef Lidia Bastianich, of the PBS cooking series “”Lidia’s Italy”, celebrates spring and asparagus in this video filmed in the spring snow! She prepares a simple breakfast or brunch of asparagus with eggs, scallions, olive oil, salt and pepper, served with a side salad.
Her asparagus tips? Lidia says to choose stalks that snap easily rather than bend, and she prefers the skinnier stalks to the fatter ones, for a more intense flavor. She shaves the outside of the bottom of the stalks with a peeler, as they tend to be tough and fibrous.
The written recipe is here.
averagebetty
March 25, 2009 at 7:31 pmI love Lidia! It’s like cooking with your mother. Well, maybe not my mother – but that’s another story 😉
Great recipe – looks like it would make an awesome dinner too!
Savory Tv
April 7, 2009 at 12:03 pmThank you Betty for visiting! That does bring up an interesting thought though, if you could choose any famous chef to be a parent, who would you choose? Me: Julia! But only if I was allowed to keep the original parent!
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