So, I kept looking for a recipe for ham and asparagus and something something that wasn’t too something, and couldn’t find anything I liked. So
@Tin Man, this is truly an Exie “salad.”
I don’t know what to call it other than sauteed ham, mushrooms, and celery in a white wine/ shallot sauce over farfalle (bow tie pasta) and asparagus.
Ingredients were pretty much ^that^ including a flour/butter roux base for the sauce plus fresh thyme, a little chicken stock, and carrot shavings added at the last minute. I sliced the asparagus up into 1” chunks and added the thickest chunks, then the next thickest etc. one batch at a time to the pasta water, starting three minutes before it was done, adding the tips last and immediately draining the pasta+asparagus.
Next time I’ll make the sauce a tiny bit thicker and back off the wine. I’ll also remember to grate the Parmesan.
Anyway, it was a nice break from the heavy-duty turkey tet.
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