Tool Tip: Asparagus Steamer
One of my favorite kitchen gadgets, a tall narrow pot to steam asparagus. By today's standards, my kitchen is small. Whenever I peer longingly into beautiful new kitchens and wish mine were bigger, more open, more something, I think of my 70-something west-door neighbor who cooked and fed husband and six kids in the same space -- and once again feel content with my kitchen, just the way it is. Few kitchen tools are allowed a permanent home in my kitchen, especially tools that are single-purpose. But my commitment to an asparagus steamer started early in this vegetable recipe odyssey. On Day Three's Lemon Asparagus , I sang the praises of an asparagus steamer. By Day Seven's Asparagus Tapenade , I'd finagled a decent alternative using a 9x13 pan. By Day Seventeen's Ginger Asparagus , I'd rigged one up -- very inexpensively -- using a tall narrow pot from Target and an everyday expandable vegetable steamer. Now, upon the first asparagus sightings, I move this mak