Rachel Roddy’s recipe for new potatoes, eggs, asparagus and green sauce
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A light springtime meal using the freshest spears you can find (which, ideally, means picking them at midnight)In favourable conditions (warm and sunny, but sheltered), asparagus can grow several inches a day. The Canadian Food Focus website claims a fantastic 15cm in 24 hours – which must also be noisy, if you have an ear close enough. Even if the reality is half that, it’s enough for me to consider spending a day in a field of it. I would need to lie down low – on an inflatable lilo, maybe –...

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