Health and Fitness News

Welcome to the Stars Hollow Gazette‘s Health and Fitness News weekly diary. It will publish on Saturday afternoon and be open for discussion about health related issues including diet, exercise, health and health care issues, as well as, tips on what you can do when there is a medical emergency. Also an opportunity to share and exchange your favorite healthy recipes.

Questions are encouraged and I will answer to the best of my ability. If I can’t, I will try to steer you in the right direction. Naturally, I cannot give individual medical advice for personal health issues. I can give you information about medical conditions and the current treatments available.

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Three Ways to Let Fresh Asparagus Shine

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I’ll never forget the happy day someone showed me the patch of wild green asparagus popping through the moist earth along a fence line by the irrigation ditch on a California ranch. It was the best introduction to fresh asparagus one could ever wish for. During a few springtime weeks, that patch gave us seven or eight glorious spears a day, sometimes a dozen, in all sizes. All they needed were a couple minutes in boiling water, and some butter, salt and pepper. I’m told that the patch is still producing.

Though we call it wild asparagus, it would be more accurate to call it feral or invasive, something originally cultivated that has learned to thrive in the wild. Asparagus is not indigenous to the Americas — it was brought over by Europeans — so wherever it is found in the wild here, it has been scattered by the four winds from the seeds in some early settlers’ gardens.

David Tanis, New York Times

Charred Asparagus With Green Garlic Chimichurri

Chimichurri is the South American green herb sauce that goes with just about everything. Easy to put together, it tastes best freshly prepared.

Steamed Asparagus With Pistachios and Brown Butter

This versatile brown butter sauce could enhance all sorts of other vegetables, or fish for that matter.

Shaved Asparagus Salad With Ginger and Sesame

Succulent, fat, fresh asparagus is thinly sliced by hand for this raw salad — easier than you’d think, and safer than using a mandoline.

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