Ingredient Spotlight: Asparagus With Chef Chris Fischer

This may be the most adorable family cooking and gardening video ever.  It’s from our friends at Plum Tv, featuring Martha’s Vineyard Chef Chris Fischer, his Grandfather Ozzie, and their dog.

Wise asparagus words from Ozzie, quite the dapper grandfather:  “Now when you’re raising asparagus, you don’t pick it the first year, the second year, temptation gets too strong, you pick some.  Then the third year you go at it. ”  (Ozzie  is referring to the need of time for the perennial  asparagus root systems to develop and grow, typically they are not fully developed until the third year.  Read more here.)

Ozzie likes creamed asparagus, so chef Chris makes him an improv recipe on the grill.   Quite simply, here is his technique:  Chris washes and salts the freshly picked asparagus stalks, rubs the hot grill with butter, and places the stalks on the grill perpendicular to the grids.  Chris grills some fresh spring garlic stalks, and warms with butter, garlic, salt, lemon juice, and milk, as he also toasts sliced Ciabatta bread to a crispy brown.    The entire mixture of  creamy garlic sauce and asparagus is simply topped onto the grilled bread, as deliciously simple as farm fresh rustic cooking should always be.   Cheers to Plum Tv and Chef Chris, thank you for sharing your recipe and and a taste of family life with us!

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For more amazing asparagus chef recipes, don’t miss these:

Cream of Aspragus and Crab Soup from Chef Aaron McCargo Jr
Kurt Gutenbrunner’s White Asparagus With Vinaigrette Recipe
Asparagus with Eggs From Chef Lidia Bastianich
White Asparagus with a Blood Orange Reduction From Chef Cedric Tovar
Truffled Egg Toast with Grilled Asparagus and Fontina Cheese From Chef Marlon Manty