When it's Springtime, I Feel like Cooking....

[Tsiyu]

(or eating) what?


For me, Hot Cross Buns and asparagus are my two favorite Spring goodies.

A long time ago, it was a Fanny Farmer Buttercream Egg. But they don't make them anymore.

What are your favorite Spring delicacies?

[grasswire]

1. rhubarb

mmmmm

[Tsiyu]

3. I absolutely forgot rhubarb

okay add that, too!


But it just does not like growing in TN so far. In New York, it grew mammoth-sized. Here, it seems to grow a few years and then fizzle.

But nothing beats rhubarb pie. mmmmmm is right.

[NMDemDist2]

2. the first crop of California strawberrys

they hit this week and they are WONDERFUL!!!!

[Tsiyu]

4. Yum. Are you going to make jam?

Are the prices good?

All the standard strawberry jam has HFCS in it now :(

On a side note, the Iroquois have a special Strawberry ceremony. We kids used to mimic it (a bit later in the year like June when the berries ripened if I remember). But the little wild strawberries in Upstate NY are worth having a ceremony over...

I bet yours in California taste just as delicious. :P

[Stinky The Clown]

9. We got some at Costco yesterday

Giant strawberries that would normally assume are not too sweet and rather cardboard-like.

They were wonderful! Sweet and flavorful.

[Warpy]

5. I'm looking for that asparagus

and I don't mean those skinny first shoots, either. I want the nice thick stuff I can grill.

I'm also looking forward to those endless fish salads, although I think I'll still cook one more pot of crack green posole before the mercury starts to climb.

[Tsiyu]

6. I admit to having chili in the crockpot.

One last hoorah, since it's going into the thirties the next few days :)

I'll send thoughts of healthy shoots for you, Warpy :hi:

[yellerpup]

7. Spring favorites: artichokes, asparagus, strawberries

peas, and tender lettuces. When I lived in the country I found an asparagus patch that had been planted long before we bought the property. I dug out my hand trowel and little rake, sat down cross-legged to weed, chopped the rake in to clear out the dead weeds and pulled up a next of baby snakes! I didn't know until that day that I could run backwards so fast without getting up. Butt cheeks, don't fail me now! :hi:

[Tsiyu]

8. AAAA mother%$#ing snakes in the asparagus bed!!!

When you were in gym class way back when, did they make you play that crab game where you crawl around like that on the gymnasium floor?

Bet you never thought you'd need that skill in real life. :)

[yellerpup]

10. LOL!

It came in handy on that day! :rofl: