Steamed asparagus with kaiser fleish and garlic, originally uploaded by yongtze.
I have been ordering organic vegetables and fruits "Box of the Week" ($35) from "Green Line Organic Direct" for a few weeks and have to say that I am quite pleased with it. To give an idea what you can get in a box: Today I received 5 apples, 4 mandarins, 2 navel oranges, 4 bananas, 4 roma tomatoes, 3 potatoes, half a pumpkin, one bunch of celery, a small bag of baby spinach leaves, about 12 mushrooms, 2 carrots, 1 iceberg lettuce, and about 12 asparagus. Not exactly cheap but I would say it is reasonable and comparable to Safeway Homeshop (Not even organic).
With the asparagus, I decided to steam it quickly and then mix with pan-fried kaiser fleish (kind of like smoked bacon) and garlic. I have been eating steamed vegetables recently for its simplicity, speed and obvious health reasons.
Another reason is that as I always cook rice on the stove - when the rice is being boiled and cooked, just wait until most of the water evaporates and little holes appear in the surface on the rice, throw in the cut vegetables onto the rice and put the lid back on. While the rest of the water continues to boil and evaporates as the rice is being cooked, the steam cooks the vegetables in 2-5 minutes. So I get the rice and the vegetables cooked in the same pot and around the same time, extremely simple, fast and less washing-up to do!
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