>
This was worth the wait.

And it’s worth two pictures.

Moan if you want to. I don’t care.

The Bugner family in our village still grows asparagus the way it’s meant to be grown.

No foil tunnels.

No black plastic covering the rows to speed things up.

They wait until it’s ready and then they get up at stupid o’clock and harvest it.

And they charge €7 a kilo from the beginning of the season to the end.

Can’t be fairer than that.

So when we saw the sign on Friday, Pavlov’s Dog syndrome set in.

Ordered some on Saturday, picked it up yesterday morning, ate it yesterday evening.

With

– minted new potatoes (Galatina, scrubbed, not peeled)

– some good local ham plus a slice or two of prosciutto

– homemade hollandaise (with a pinch of paprika from my mate Tibor’s mum’s garden in Hungary)

– chervil fresh from the garden.

And a really nice Sauvignon from the Loire.

As Bernie Ashwell would say:

“This is the life, eh, John?”

And if you want the dead-easy hollandaise recipe (if that’s not a play on words…)

4 egg yolks
1/2 cup of butter
3 tsp lemon juice
cayenne pepper to taste

Heat butter in a pan until it starts bubbling. Place egg yolks, lemon juice and cayenne pepper in a blender, blend for 5 seconds. Slowly pour hot butter in a steady stream with the blender running.

That’s it.

23 Apr This entry was published on 23 April, 2007 at 08:27. It’s filed under Uncategorized and tagged Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.