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Recipe of the Day: Lemony Asparagus Soup (recipe and photo via Dishing Up Delights)

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10 ounces (1 small bunch) asparagus, cut into 1/2-inch pieces with a few 3-inch tips reserved
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 white onion, thinly sliced
2 cups low-sodium chicken stock
One 1-inch wide strip of lemon zest, plus 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest for garnish
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Salt and freshly ground pepper

Bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Fill a large bowl with ice water. Boil all of the asparagus until bright green and barely tender, about 2-3 minutes. Drain and transfer to the ice water to cool, then drain again. Set most of the tips aside from the rest of the cut up pieces.

Wipe out the saucepan. Add the olive oil and heat until shimmering. Add the sliced onion to the saucepan and cook over moderately high heat, stirring, until softened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add the chicken stock and lemon zest strip, bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the asparagus pieces and cook until tender, about 5 minutes. Discard the lemon zest strip.

Working in batches, puree the soup in a blender. Return the soup to the saucepan and stir in the lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper and reheat if necessary. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with the asparagus tips and grated lemon zest. Serve hot or chilled.

44 replies on “The Morning News”

  3. 10 ounces (1 small bunch) asparagus, cut into 1/2-inch pieces with a few 3-inch tips reserved
    Extra-virgin olive oil
    White onion
    Low-sodium chicken stock
    Lemon zest
    Fresh lemon juice
    Salt and freshly ground pepper

    Which one of these ingredients have you stolen from QFC at some point in time or another?

  4. Cows and pigs raised to be slaughtered for corpse consumption contribute 18% of all human-related global warming emissions in CO2 equivalent, according to the UN. That’s more than any other source, including transportation or energy. It also doesn’t include the massive energy expenditures to raise, harvest, or transport animal carcasses.

    Pig flu, bird flu, global warming — all caused by people who continue to choose to eat animal corpses.

  7. It’s Global Climate Crisis; not ‘Warming’.
    And it is caused by Liberal “Scientists” (PhDs, mostly) farting out bullshit theories to fit their Leftist view of the world

  8. @4: Calling it “corpse consumption” sort of undermines your credibility when you try to claim you are making your argument primarily on environmental grounds. It’s the equivalent of saying “sinning is responsible for %20 of carbon emissions. Repent!”

    Try to use a little less loaded language and you might actually convince people of something someday.

  9. PS “You don’t get it from pigs” is incorrect. Of course pig flu comew from pigs. it’s extremely unlikely that a separate strain would develop in an Iraq zoo, though, since all known pig and bird flus have developed in the close proximities required to harvest animal corpses.

    Once a strain of pig flu lethal to humans develops, it is transmitted in other ways, but never forget the source of pig and bird flu — the harvesting of pig and bird corpses for consumption by people with socially conservative eating habits.

  10. #8, Use of the term “sinning” is a ridiculous opinion. “Corpse consumption” is the most accurate term for the act of eating animal carcasses. What term would you rather use? Likely one that is much more loaded, and developed by the corpse industry for PR purposes.

  11. I’m going to go have animal corpses for lunch. If I’m lucky, the dorm cafeteria has bacon for my cheeseburger. Then it’s two corpses!

  13. #4/#11, You can do whatever you wish as long as it remains legal. However, I hope you choose to attend the funerals of everyone who will be killed by pig flu. Their families will likely appreciate your apologies for contributing to their loved ones’ deaths, even though it will never bring them back.

  18. @1, @2: Erica has the grace and courtesy to give us great recopies when she does the morning news and you childish morons are so disrespectful!

  19. But Stop it now, you are using electricity, contributing to the load on coal power plants. You are not only responsible for the deaths from respiratory illnesses exacerbated by pollution, but you need to be shamed for global warming, and the deaths that Katrina caused. Then there is the nuclear waste that you are creating. Stop it now!

  26. @4 is making lots of good points & giving useful information like that 18% figure. Bravo.

    Also news today — Gary Locke is being sworn in. He’s been invisible lately, just another face among many on the auto bailout team. We haven’t heard a damn thing from him.

    He’s Washington State’s big man in DC now, when he’s gonna bring home the bacon?

    I mean, the tofu?

  27. You know what I really love? Boiling lobster. Unlike clams, that just pop open when they’re dead, the lobster has all these little legs and antennae and whatnot that wave around as you cook it to death. It doesn’t scream, of course, but I like to imagine that it does anyway. Then I add some more salt and garlic powder to the boiling water.

  28. Thanks PC. Here are some links if you’re interested in learning more about the cow/pig corpse industry’s primary role in human-caused global warming.

    http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0220/p03s0…
    http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?Ne…
    http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006…

    That last link has a link to the full UN report, which is long, but a good read if you have a scientific background. The UN is the only organization that has done a comprehensive review on the causes of global warming, because such studies take a lot of work and are expensive.

    Greg #27, Lobster is a good alternative to cow, pig, and chicken corpses if you enjoy eating them. Harvesting lobster does not cause pandemics or deadly food contamination, global warming, or massive ecosystem destruction. There are minor environmental and health concerns, but they are nothing compared to the damage caused by the massive cow/pig/bird corpse industry.

  30. But Stop it now, you are using electricity, contributing to the load on coal power plants. (Power plants create over 80% of greenhouse gasses.) You are not only responsible for the deaths from respiratory illnesses exacerbated by pollution, but you need to be shamed for global warming, and the deaths that Katrina caused. Then there is the nuclear waste that you are creating. Stop it now!

  32. Hmm, I just realized that Stop it now, while his/her intentions are probably more laudable, is the anti-meat equivalent of Fred Phelps.

    Also, this soup is not vegetarian. The recipe specifically calls for chicken stock. Presumably veggie stock would do, but it does not say.

  33. In the future, if animals are accused of causing part of the pollution problem, there may be less produced(born) and meat will be very expensive to buy. My guess. How bad could pollution get on a planet with too many animals?

  34. @3 Why would you ever get grass from QFC?!? I know a place in Bothell where LOCAL Asparagus is selling for only $1.99 a pound and it is great! Real good quality from people who are picky about produce!!

  36. But Stop it now, you are using electricity, contributing to the load on coal power plants. (Power plants create over 80% of greenhouse gasses.) You are not only responsible for the deaths from respiratory illnesses exacerbated by pollution, but you need to be shamed for global warming, and the deaths that Katrina caused. Then there is the nuclear waste that you are creating. Stop it now!

  38. Stop It Now, why was your post number 4 instead of number 1 on these comments? Getting tired while spamming? Some red meat in your diet might serve to give you the energy to keep annoying us all.

  39. But @34, driving to Bothell is even worse for the planet than eating corpses. Why are you defending these murderous fruit and vegetable stands?

  40. I’m sure that soup is delicious, but that asparagus looks like it was murdered and dumped in the soup by an asparagus mob boss.

  42. #39, Fnarf, it’s not even close. Eating cow/pig corpses is the worst thing humans do for global warming emissions. Driving a car isn’t even on the same order of magnitude.

    Please see the links I gave to PC to inform yourself.

  43. @27, So what if Hitler was a vegetarian? What is your point?

    Hitler also breathed 02. You breath 02. Therefore you are like Hitler. See the logic?

    I am grateful to Stop it now for making this information available, although I agree that it would be more convincing if written in a more diplomatic way.

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