Camera phone envy and dwindling asparagus supplies
Marty Katz, the local editor of the Zagat Survey, sent me this photo taken with his iPhone at the Waverly Market yesterday. He entitled the e-mail "Dwindling," as in supply of local asparagus. E-mails like that make me anxious.
I also have severe camera phone envy.
Marty and I between us are the reason there are never any Fourth of July tomatoes left when you go to Cindy's stand to buy them.
By chance I also took a camera phone photo yesterday, because why would you ever actually carry your camera with you when you have a blog that needs photos?
My photo (below) looks like it went through the wash with the other whites I was bleaching, and that's after intensive work in iPhoto using the Brightness, Contrast and Sharpening tools.
It's of my lunch yesterday on Stone Mill Bakery's wonderful patio: chicken salad with lemon vinaigrette. (Shouldn't that be lemonette?) ...
I liked the accompaniments of tomato slices (which sort of reminded me of summer tomatoes), marinated cucumbers, a dice of granny smith apples, pimientos and baby greens. They could skip the sprouts as far as I'm concerned. It is sad, though. Bread no longer comes with it automatically, although I know I could have gotten a crusty roll with sweet butter if I had thought to ask.
(Asparagus photo courtesy of Marty Katz)
(Chicken salad photo by Motorola)
Comments
Those asparagus look beautiful!
Have you noticed anyone growing and selling white asparagus? I think they are a bit more tender.
Not yet. Maybe someone else has. EL
Posted by: Mr. Old Fart | April 27, 2008 10:13 AM
I can't get anything like that on my camera phone. Camera phone envy, indeed. I missed the market yesterday and now I'm really craving asparagus. Blanched and then lightly sautéd with butter and a squirt of lemon. Cream of asparagus soup. Lovely blanched asparagus and a chip of parmesan wrapped with prosciutto and broiled a few minutes.
Posted by: Rosebud | April 27, 2008 11:22 AM
Rosebud, what time should we be there for dinner, did you say? ;->
Posted by: Dahlink | April 27, 2008 12:09 PM
EL, instead of having lunch at Stone Mill, you could have joined your adoring fans at the party in Fells Point. I brought a mask, just in case it was needed, if you didn't want to be identified. And there was plenty of space at the table.
A thoughtful gesture :-) EL
Posted by: Dahlink | April 27, 2008 12:19 PM
I haven't gotten the asparagus yet. And next weekend I'm in a seminar all day Saturday & Sunday, so I don't know when I'm going to get to the market.
Posted by: Rosebud | April 28, 2008 7:39 AM
Oh, and here's a similar recipe that I just found and have to try.
Posted by: Rosebud | April 28, 2008 7:54 AM
Quick spray of olive oil and twenty-five minutes in toaster oven @275 makes them nutty, crunchy and slightly caramelized. Plus salt.
Posted by: chowsearch | April 28, 2008 8:04 PM
All this talk of asparagus makes me glad that I have some waiting at home for me to cook for dinner tonight. I didn't get them at the farmer's market- although I'm very much looking forward to going to the downtown market when it opens on Sunday.
Posted by: Susan PG | April 30, 2008 12:34 PM