Eating fresh from the garden is one of my favorite ways to enjoy fruits and vegetables in the summer and fall. Grab a bowl and some kitchen shears, go out and harvest my own ingredients for a big green salad or roasted Parmesan green beans or homemade spaghetti sauce.
The garden is a great way to get kids excited about a wider variety of vegetables, too. If they have a hand in their care and harvest, they’re far more likely to want to try new things.
My husband and I love asparagus but aren’t that crazy about green beans. That means that a holiday staple – Green Bean Casserole – is off the menu for us. So I was excited to find Asparagus Casserole recipe in the Gooseberry Patch Quick & Easy Christmas cookbook.
We decided to give it a try tonight as a pairing with chicken cordon bleu. Generally we make Parmesan roasted asparagus to go with it but the fresh asparagus in our area hasn’t looked too hot lately and this recipe called for frozen, so it was a good fit. Continue reading »
