Early Spring Chopped Salad with Asparagus and Cauliflower

I’ve been snapping up the first thick asparagus spears of the season; so crunchy, fresh, and mild. I munched about half a bunch raw as a snack, can’t remember that ever happening before.

I thought I’d finally join the trend of making a shaved asparagus salad, cutting thin slices of asparagus with a vegetable peeler to make a fresh raw salad. As it turns out, though, my vegetable peeler is not up to task, though it had no trouble cutting parmesan curls to top the salad. What do you do with a half-dull vegetable peeler anyway? You can’t sharpen it like a regular knife, and if you’re me, it’s not really bad enough to throw away.

Leaving that dilemma for another day, I cut the asparagus lengthwise Read the article →

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