Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, scaly shoots from under ground, as in asparagus. Also called turions.
Examples
“My favorite was a dish called fiocchetti di pere con salsa di taleggio e asparagi: it was a purse pasta filled with pear and taleggio cheese in an asparagus cream sauce.”
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“My husband has asparagi alla parmagiana followed by tortellini Montegrappa (with cream and ragu).”
“Lacking toothpick or floss or flossy toothpick-like item -- or the initiative to rise from my desk in search of such -- I cleverly improvise by folding a yellow stickie in half in a plan to dislodge the offending asparagi.”
“Viaggi & Sapori: Pasta con crema di asparagi e uova mimosa”
“The tradizionale I dribbled over our organic strawberries for Easter dinner was as good as the Barolo we drank with the rissoto con asparagi seasoned with Ile de Re grey sea salt and the baby lamb chops.”
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“By the way, I loved those asparagus (asparagi?) simply steamed and best served, in my opinion, with French style home made mayonnaise or aioli (add lots and lots of garlic to your home made mayonnaise).”
“In fact, the Roman emperor Augustus coined the phrase Velocius quam asparagi conquantur, meaning to do some thing even faster than the time it takes to cook asparagus which is really fast.”
“Saw several recent-born fawns, got some troutskis bathed in bacon grease and griddle butter to go w/the fresh-cut asparagi?”
“The Greeks and Romans valued it for their tables, and boiled it so quickly that _velocius quam asparagi coquuntur_ -- "faster than asparagus is cooked" -- was”
“At the clean, bare table, in the shadow of the big, bright, many-bottled bar, you will eat your _Risotta alla Milanese_, your _coteletti di Vitelle_, your _asparagi_ -- it's probably the only place in the city where they serve asparagus with grated cheese -- finally your _zambaione_, -- a heavenly sort of hot "flip," very foamy and seductive and strongly flavoured with Marsarla wine.”
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