We have been rising asparagus in our backyard for about 9 years now. It takes a couple of years to get began, after which it fluctuates every season. Some years, it is an asparagus explosion, the place now we have to eat it with each meal, and provides some away to mates. The asparagus crop was not as considerable this yr, so I treasured what little we did get and tried a couple of new recipes to combine up the flavors. I believed a soup would possibly get my daughters concerned about asparagus; they’ve pooh-poohed it so far, although it grows 30 yards exterior our again door each summer time. Guess what? It labored! They devoured up this soup and requested for extra! Rating one for Mama. Hope you get pleasure from it as a lot as they did!

Components:

• 2 tablespoons olive oil (I used garlic-infused oil)
• 4 stalks celery, chopped
• 1 lb – or one huge ol’ handful – asparagus, chopped (take away powerful ends first)
• 2 bay leaves
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon pepper
• 6 cups vegetable inventory
• 2 medium avocados
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice

To make:

Sautée the celery within the olive oil for about 8 minutes over low-medium warmth. Add asparagus, bay leaves, salt and pepper and stir gently for an additional 5 minutes. Add the veggie inventory and convey to a boil. Scale back warmth and simmer for five minutes, then take away from warmth. Take away bay leaves.

As soon as it has cooled a bit, add soup to a high-speed blender (insert Vitamix infomercial right here), and purée till clean. Add the avocados and lemon juice, and mix once more. To serve heat, pour into bowls from the blender and end with toppings under. To serve chilly, refrigerate for about two hours previous to serving, stirring often to make sure even cooling, after which serve with desired toppings.

Toppings (elective):

• Contemporary dill or parsley
• Toasted pepitas
• Teeny asparagus suggestions (so fairly on prime)
• Lemon cashew cream (mix 1/2 cup soaked cashews with a squeeze of lemon juice, 1/4 cup water, and a pinch of salt in a high-speed blender, chill for an hour, spoon gently onto the floor of the soup. This works greatest in the event you’re serving it chilly.)

Simple, peasy, lemon-squeezy. Actually.

With love and completely happy style buds from us to you, 

P.S.

COOL YET SLIGHTLY DISTASTEFUL ASPARAGUS TRIVIA: Do you know that every one folks’s pee smells from consuming asparagus, however about 25% of individuals are not outfitted with the correct receptors to odor it? (That, by the best way, is known as particular anosmia.) So the following time you hear somebody bragging about how his or her pee doesn’t odor from asparagus, you possibly can nod smugly and suppose: “Oh, sure it does, you ignorant idiot – you simply cannot odor it.”