I’m pretty sure that the last two days cooking wise the chicken I used may have been a day or two too old. I ended up with a slight belly ache last night and when I went grocery shopping today just decided not to bother getting any meat. I got quite the haul for pretty cheap too! First order of business was asparagus, it was on sale this week so I loaded up on that. I used it as the base of my first veggie dinner. This meal is close to being vegan but a really awesome sauce I made has yogurt in it. Close but not quite.
Asparagus Yogurt Sauce
8ish stalks of aspagaus
1 8oz fat free yogurt – to make this vegan just sub out for a non dairy!
Lemon Juice
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Okay for some preportions… 6-10 shakes of your salt shaker, 3 full circles on your pepper grinder, half a scoop of a spoon ful of garlic and a teaspoonish or two of lemon juice : ) Put every one in the mixer and let er rip.
If you want this to be thicker I would go with half of a yogurt container. I was actually pretty surprised how thin this came out. I got the recipe idea from Everyday with Rachel Ray but she used walnuts (which I forgot to buy) and oil which I general stay away from. The flavor on this is absolutely awesome though. Great for fresh vegetables or maybe crackers or something.
Now for another way to use the asparagus I sautéed a few spears with spinach, mushrooms, garlic and a roma tomato.
I served this with the rice I made earlier this week and put the cold asparagus yogurt mix on top. It was great! I definitely dunked some of the veggies in their as well. All in all a very successful meal, finished it off with one of the FIVE mangos I got this week (yummm) and I am stuffed!
Not a bad view for eating dinner…
Do you have a favorite asparagus recipe? I have about two dozen more asparagus stalks and would love to here some creative ideas!
P.S. I want to also say congratulations to any one who ran in the Boston Marathon today! The heat was brutal and I followed on of my good friends running and couldn’t help but feel for him as the temperatures kept going up! So if you are going outside today / tonight stay hydrated!! I know for soccer we are all bringing as much water as we can carry!!
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I love steamed asparagus dipped into soft boiled eggs (take the top off the egg, add a very small amount of butter and a drop ir two of cider vinegar, finished with some salt & pepper!
Lipsmackingly great! (also great without the vinegar & butter!)
Oh how interesting, I even have egg in the fridge! I’ve never made a soft boiled egg so I will definitely get my google on and try this out. Thanks!!
Ohhh love that asparagus sauce idea!! That looks amazing over rice!! I just saute my asparagus with olive oil, garlic powder, garlic, onion powder, lemon pepper and voila! It works every time for me.
Very nice! Lemme know if you try it out and end up with a vegan masterpiece!