{"id":404,"date":"2011-03-01T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=404"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T03:22:39","slug":"asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sunday afternoon, after feeding the kids, Corey and I needed something to eat for lunch.\u00a0 I remembered that I bought some frozen ravioli from the grocery store a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 I put some water onto boil and took\u00a0 my saute\u00a0 pan out. When I was a kid my mom used to make asparagus for dinner.\u00a0 Sorry mom, but it was yucky.\u00a0 She would take the asparagus and boil the heck out of it.\u00a0 Then she would make a cheese sauce and cover the asparagus with it. The cheese sauce was the best because it covered the gross texture and taste of the asparagus.\u00a0 Freshman year in college I had a roommate who introduced me to a new way of cooking asparagus.\u00a0 She chopped it up into bite size pieces and sauted it in a little butter with some salt and pepper.\u00a0 It was really good and opened up a whole new world of asparagus for me.\u00a0 Since then I’ve learned that asparagus is really good grilled and with lemon too.\u00a0 So for this meal while the noodles were boiling I chopped up some asparagus and sauted it in a little butter and olive oil (too cold for grilling).\u00a0 I seasoned the asparagus with some lemon pepper.\u00a0 When the noodles were done I tossed it all together and topped it with a little Parmesan.\u00a0 Corey and I really enjoyed our lunch.\u00a0 Our two year old kept stealing my asparagus and when mine was all gone she started to take it from her dad.\u00a0 She didn’t even want any of the ravioli.\u00a0 Asparagus is high in folate.\u00a0 Folate helps reduce spinal cord and brain defects in a developing fetus.\u00a0 Asparagus is also a good source of Vitamins A & C (see previous post for benefits of these vitamins).\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday afternoon, after feeding the kids, Corey and I needed something to eat for lunch.\u00a0 I remembered that I bought some frozen ravioli from the grocery store a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 I put some water onto boil and took\u00a0 my saute\u00a0 pan out. When I was a kid my mom used to make asparagus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[25,27],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-health","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karin.zmonkey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}