Spring Time Are You Ready For Lemon Asparagus Salad

Hello to all my foodie friends out there in Web land its MadJon again writing to say Happy spring to you all.  There is nothing better to eat in the Spring then Asparagus and with my Lemon Salad Dressing that will light up your taste buds with the freshness of spring.  I know I've been off of here for a while and am sorry for that.  I've been busy with catering jobs and this week I've been with the sickness of that thing called sinus, head, and nose problems not to mention my chest!!!  Love it.  I have not had this problem for years and now it seems to want to take me over and now is not a good time because I have a wedding to cater on May 3rd so no rest for the wary as they say.  I made this recipe up while I was cooking for the D.C. hoodies as they are called!  The Lemon dressing I used in my restuarant and my customers loved it.  I will now pass that formula on to you all to enjoy.  Asparagus is not only a healty and tasty vegetable to devore but there are lots of different ways for you to prepare it.  It may be roasted, steamed, fried with batter, B.B.Q.pickled in a jar  and eaten raw. Any who I like to eat it anyway you cook it.  You do know to snap the bottom ends off to take away the tough parts of the stems.  Leaving that soft and tasty part of the vegetable.  It is also a vegetable that does not take a whole lot of cooking time or prep time.  As to the greens you may mix any fresh and raw vegetables with your greens or even fruits thrown in there.  I have read that if you mix fruits with greens it may cause you that gas feeling, oh well take a pill if you wish or just pass it along sort of speak.  I also tossed in some raosted Pine Nuts in this mix very tasty a I may add.  I also use  alot of taosted Sunflower seeds in my salads.  Hey, I also like to add salt to my Salad dressings and did you know that Salt is a noun, the means needed to support life. Salt also brings out the flavors in foods, sometimes when you make a dish, all it needs is a litel more Salt to bring out the flavors.  No to much please and I liek Sea Salts and Himalayan Salts.  Any who are you ready for some good eats with greens and the wonderful vegeable that is called Asparagus.  Please let me know if you liek this recipe at madjon51@aol.com and come like my fan page on Face Book https://www.facebook.com/CookingwithMadjon you just gotta love social media.  Also please share my cooking blog and join me on LinkedIn Eileen Hutson.

Lemon Aparagus Salad

Dressing:

1/2 cup Lemon Juice
1/2 tsp. Sea Salt
1 tsp. Onion Powder
2 TBSP Sugar
1/2 tsp Seasoned Salt
Black Pepper to taste
1/2 cup Olive Oil

Mix the first 6 ingredients together and then add your oil and shake like crazy.

1 Bunch Asparagus
Salt and Pepper to taste
Onion and Garlic Powders, for dusting
Dried Rosemary, maybe 2 tsp.
Olive Oil, about 3 TBSP
Salad Greens, mixed
Whatever frutis and vegetables of your choice

Remove the stem bottoms on the asparagus and wash it.  Then dust the asparagus with, salt, pepper, onion, garlic, and Rosemary, give it a toss.  Then toss it with the olive oil.  Then steam the asparaus for about 3 minutes, cool it down and its ready to place on top of your greens and vegetables.  Pour some of your salad dressing on top of the greens and toss it lightly and you are ready to serve.

Please enjoy this salad and if you want to take out the sugar just add 2 Slenda packets to the mix.  Happy trails to you until we meet again.  Bona Y'all.