Asparagus. Or sparrow grass as I called it as a child.
Last week we noticed that asparagus had hit the market shelves.
Fresh, local asparagus at $5 a kg as a basis for RLC was an opportunity to be exploited.
Simple dish using asparagus? Hmm.
Steamed/grilled with…free range, home-grown eggs and something.
Something???
I suggested maybe pesto.
No.
“Hollandaise sauce mum..that’s what you have with asparagus and poached eggs.”
Not that we ever have that at home.
But observed in the general mix of foodie things in our lives.

$3.45 worth of asparagus bagged us 4 fat spears of asparagus each,  4 free home grown eggs, $2.20 for a commercial hollandaise sauce (which was actually relatively decent) and $1 for a big bread stick and our lunch ended up costing $6.65. For 4.
Fresh, just boiled, bright green asparagus, topped with a poached egg with all it’s oozy yolk mingling with the hollandaise and fresh cracked black pepper, and bread to mop it all up. nom nom nom.
Simple dish.
Simply delish.