Notes from Catherine Rowett, former Green Party MEP for East of England and deputy coordinator of the Eastern Region Green Party*(UK). Biographical reflections on life as an MEP. Longer reflections and discussions on issues relating to policy, the good life, justice, equality, anti-austerity economics and the future of the planet. This is also a forum for exchanging ideas on how to tread lightly on the planet and avoid supporting exploitation and corrupt practices. Here we go...

Sunday, 22 April 2007

Asparagus

Yesterday I discovered that you're supposed to eat your first English asparagus on St George's day. We had ours yesterday, but that probably reflects the reality of global warming, as I overheard the market stall man saying to another customer.

2 comments:

Tiger said...

In Belgium last week we were offered the traditional Eastertide delicacy of Mechelse asperges – fresh young asparagus grown in the allotments around the primatial city of Mechlin, with the plants covered so that they don't develop chlorophyll and remain pallid.


Here's
one serving suggestion for it, mechanically translated from the Flemish, which gives it a rather appealing quaintness.

Kruid the plakjes means to slice the liver and season it. Stroop is literally syrup, but here it probably means balsamic vinegar.

Catherine Rowett said...

I have to say that "mechanically translated" is a euphemism. The "mechanically" bit may be true, but parts of it do not seem to qualify for the description "translated"!