Day 55 - Grilled Asparagus with Olive Oil, Lemon and Parmesan

Recipe from Jamie Oliver Online

Well, this is another easy recipe.  We're getting kind of predictable.  Saturday I'm going to make a hard recipe that will take hours and hours and hours... just for your entertainment.  

The reason we made this was because we asparagus that was going to go rotten if we didn't cook it and it desperately needed to go in someone's mouth.  But, in the end, it never went in my mouth because I conveniently forgot.

I got the asparagus and I pulled off the ends.  

I have never even touched asparagus before.  It was kind of squishy, like any veggie.  

After I cooked it, it was kind of flimsical.  It was kind of weird.  

After I cooked it, I salted it (extremely well), expecting to tone down the taste with the salt.  And then I peppered it and I put some lemon juice on it.  We didn't have fresh lemons because we've been using them a lot.  So I used this bottled lemon juice. 

Then I drizzled some olive oil over it all. 

My mom added grilled squash to it, which is why that's in the picture.

I kind of expected it to be soft like corn, with a ton of water in it.  But since I didn't take a bit of it, I don't know if it was watery inside.  Sophie says, "You can really taste the olive oil, lemon, and sea salt."  She gave it 2 THUMBS UP.

Day 40 - Chargrilled Asparagus

Cookbook - Jamie's Kitchen

My mother went to a goat farm today because she's writing this awesome new book. It's a mystery and there's a woman who talks to goats (she's called a goat whisperer) and then there's this woman named Harlow Cassidy and she's a fashion designer, so, yeah. She went to a goat farm to learn about goats and she came home with two containers of goat cheese.

This is the goat cheese from Latte Da Dairy Farm

Those two containers were full of Mango Tango goat cheese and an herb goat cheese. The recipe we did was so we could use the goat cheese, which didn't work out so great.

It was supposed to be hard goat cheese,

but we used the soft goat cheese and it got all melty

Me, my brother, my mom, my dad, and my mom's friend tried the cheese. Of course my mom and her friend liked it okay, but me, Jared, and my dad didn't. I liked the mango one better because it wasn't as strong. It would be good on a bagel because it was light and creamy. Almost like a cream cheese.

Back to the recipe. We did chargrilled asparagus. There was one thing in it that we didn't know what it was so we used bell peppers instead. And since we didn't like the goat cheese, we used fresh mozzarella instead. I'm not a big fan of asparagus so I just ate some and I thought it was only 1/2 to 1 THUMB.

I didn't try the bell pepper.

Today was not such a good cooking day. But it's day 40 and we're bound to have some mess ups and things we don't like, but we keep going!

Oh, we also made BLTs with avocado to go with our veggies and they were great!

And that's another day with Sophie, the cooking girl!