OMG a Recipe: Greeting Spring With AsparaGUSTO

I get a little crazy around asparagus season. Maybe because it's literally like tasting Spring. When you're eating asparagus in season and it's not costing, like, $8 a pound because it was barged over from a continent away, you know the cold weather season is coming to an end. Things are growing again, leaves will start to bud, flowers are ready to bloom. Asparagus isn't in season for very long, you just enjoy the weird, alien-looking stalks for the time it's available, but you definitely feel a change in the air. Celebrating asparagus season is like you're actively taking a role in how our plates will be having a delightful, dramatic makeover. And yes, your pee will smell weird. Viva Asparagusto!

Once more, with Asparagusto! - Photo by Wasabi Prime

Mixed Plate: An Oh-Fishally All-Seafood Post

You've heard my situation with seafood many times before -- I relinquished my Asian Card at a pretty young age by not growing up in a household that prepared seafood. My dad didn't like any of it and my mother's a combination of being very accommodating and just too tired to deal with much BS, so opts for the path of least resistance. Fair enough. I also was never forced to play one or all of the following instruments: a) piano b) violin c) flute, so that pretty much guarantees my being voted off Asian Island. But I'm working my way back into the Tiger Moms of the World's good graces -- look, I made a whole seafood-themed post, using recipes from the new Ivar's cookbook!

Ivar's somewhat Original Gangstah chowder, recreated at home - Photo by Wasabi Prime

Mixed Plate: Summer Lovin', Happened So Fast!

For as much as I complain about the heat of summer, or rather, our inability to adjust to the return of the blazing orb in the sky called, The Sun, it's probably the most active time of the year for us Pacific Northwesternites. I literally couldn't keep up with the summertime points of interest on the blog, so I decided to hit the Montage button, and just say a big, huge THANK YOU, SUMMER! Because it'll probably take all winter for us to recover in time for next year's summer. Despite the waning days of August, we'll likely have a summery September to look forward to. Summertime - Onwards!

Unbelievable Northwest summer sunsets! - Photo by Wasabi Prime