Roasted Purple Asparagus

I hate asparagus. 

I love this asparagus!

Purple asparagus from my Dad's garden.

It's the only asparagus I will eat.  I cooked it at 400 F for 15 mins.  First I coated it with olive oil, sprinkled it with salt and lime powder.  Roasted to perfection!

I'm not sure if it is the lime powder or the salt that makes the little red pokadots, but it's cute!  And yummy :)

Avocado and Ponzu

I'm a Foodbuzz featured publisher. Sometimes I get samples of things to try out.

On Wednesday I found a surprise package from Kikkoman on my doorstep.

Yay! for surprise packages!

As you can see from the picture above, my bottle leaked inside the package.

Whoops!

Guess Kikkoman didn't plan on freezing Minnesota winter weather.

Couldn't they just have mailed a coupon for a free bottle?

Oh, well I liked getting a package!

The first thing I tried the Ponzu with was an avocado.

Mmmmm it was soooo good!

Lime, salt, sweet with rich buttery avocado.

Yum!

Check back later for a shrimp croquette recipe using Ponzu.

Ricotta Souffle Strata

Last month Marx Foods sent me a box of fun stuff.

Mushrooms, chiles, vanilla sugar and smoked salt.

Mmmm, yummy!

Look at it all! Amazing!

I took Lobster and Black Trumpet mushrooms, added some Japones chiles and a little smoked salt. Then with a little help from the girls....

I took 11 eggs.

Yeah, eleven.

6 I used in the strata and 5 I used in the ricotta souffle top.

I layered left over challah bread with artichoke, crab, diced red pepper, the mushrooms, chiles and a little black pepper/salt.

Then I mixed 6 eggs with a cup of whole milk and poured that over the top of the strata.

Then I mixed the remaining 5 eggs with 1 cup of ricotta cheese.

Spread that over the top of the strata and baked it at 325 degrees for 40 mins.

I just wanted to show you how shiny the top was.
It was the tastiest old bread I've ever had.