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- Y'all may all have your favorite way
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of cooking asparagus, right?
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And I think I do too.
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But this is a nice variation of asparagus,
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and you know, it's always in order because it's such a good,
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healthy food, that most everybody will eat.
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And, you know, it's good for you.
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It's low in calorie, so you can eat as much as you want.
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So, to start this recipe,
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I am gonna start with some salted water,
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and I'm gonna add just a splash of orange juice to that.
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And I have snapped off our asparagus at the appropriate end.
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It will let you know, asparagus is great in the fact,
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that it will let you know where the hard part starts
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and it will let you know where to snap it.
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All you have to do is bend it
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and it's going to snap where it wants to.
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So, I'm gonna shock it in some ice water.
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That way it will stop the cooking process, y'all.
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And it will keep the bright green color,
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which is, you know, what we really like.
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So, this is a lemon sesame seed rendition for asparagus.
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Goes great with steak,
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or barbecued chicken, or roasted chicken
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- Or pork! - [Camera Operator] Or pork.
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Oh God, Ed, well you and I going to start
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oinking, squeaking, squealing. (chuckles)
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'Cause both you and I love,
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All right, so I wanna starting to bowl.
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I'm gonna go ahead and add our asparagus.
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And if you look up the recipe,
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you'll see it says to cook until tender,
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but you know, I don't think I want to let it cook that long.
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I mean, just one, or one or two minutes.
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Because I'm gonna transfer it to my sauce pan
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over here that's got the butter.
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So, it's actually gonna be cooking a little bit more too.
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All right I'm putting it in that ice water,
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and it still has some body left to it.
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for our Easter entree, turned out so good.
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And this will be perfect,
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alongside of that, bone-in pork loin, that we cooked.
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Okay, now see that ice water just shocks it,
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and says, "stop cooking, stop cooking".
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All right, I'm gonna move this back up here
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and I'm gonna get this pan ready,
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to reheat our asparagus,
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in all the goodies stuff we got going.
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Let me get a paper towel,
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I want to drain that a little bit.
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Because I don't want it watery.
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Now, I am going to add three tablespoons of sesame seed.
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And I think this is just one tablespoon that I put in here.
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I think that was just for the garnish.
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Yep, it's one, but I'm gonna put three.
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Three tablespoons of sesame seeds.
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And you wanna watch this.
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You wanna cook it for a couple of minutes,
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but you don't want your sesame seeds to burn.
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So, we'll keep a close eye on that.
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All right, so I'm considering that, lightly brown, baby.
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One tablespoon of lemon juice,
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two tablespoons of orange juice,
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and one teaspoon of sesame oil.
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And I really recommend you measuring the sesame oil,
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'cause it's very, very strong.
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Now, I'm gonna add a little, little salt to that.
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And in goes our asparagus.
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I'm gonna get this outta the way
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and I'm gonna try not to drop it, Eddie.
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I don't think I dropped, I don't think I spilled a drop.
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All right, I turned my heat down.
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I didn't wanna burn those sesame seeds,
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so I'm gonna turn it back up.
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Okay, so we just gonna let that brown a minute.
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All right, so you just wanna,
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set that in your liquids long enough to just
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You know I got an asparagus plate that would've
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been pretty on that one, wouldn't it Eddie?
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- [Eddie] (inaudible)
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- It's hanging off the wall - It's hanging off (laughing)
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Good place for asparagus, plate.
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- Alright, so I'm just gonna drizzle
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the rest of the sauce.
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Get all those sesame seeds on there
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Like I said, it's gonna be delicious.
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It's gonna be delicious with that pork roast.
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Hmm, looks good doesn't it Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yes, smells great too.
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I like it with a lot of sesame seeds on it.
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It makes me want cookie.
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Mmm, try it Eddie, it's so good.
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The lemon juice just wakes it up, doesn't it?
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- [Eddie] Yep, very good.
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So, it's just that simple y'all.
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Like I told you before,
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♪ Here comes Peter Cotton Tail, up and down the bunny trail. ♪
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Love and best wishes y'all.
