 It's a sure sign of spring when you start seeing asparagus in the grocery store I'm going to show you my favorite way to prepare asparagus first of all when I bring it home from the store You know usually when you find it in the produce department. It's standing up in a bunch in some water So when I bring it home if I'm not going to prepare be preparing it right away I do the same thing I get a nice big mug I put the whole bunch of asparagus right into the cup until with a little bit of water until I'm ready to Prepare it and this is my favorite way and probably one of the easiest ways there is first of all I snap off the woody ends of the stock and to do that I just kind of snap it breaks right where it's supposed to if you want to you can save these woody ends to Prepare a broth if you're making some creamy asparagus soup and Once I've already rinsed it so they're nice and clean I've got them on an aluminum foil lined Baking sheet and then I'm just going to drizzle them with some oil and today. I'm using avocado oil Sunflower oil is a nice choice. They're both really they hold up well to really high heat and my oven is set at 425 degrees So I probably have two to three tablespoons of oil here And that's the trick you want to be generous with the oil and then roll them around so that they're totally covered with the oil and then arrange them back into a nice single layer on your sheet and Then a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper and just sprinkle the salt right over the asparagus and a little bit of pepper and Then it's ready to go right into the oven at 425 degrees Your baking time will depend on the thickness of your asparagus spears so this asparagus was in the oven for about 10 minutes and It's nice and toasty brown on the outside. It's tender not mushy on the inside And sometimes I even leave it in the oven a little bit longer And it gets a little bit crunchy on the outside but still tender on the inside. It's like being french fries My favorite way to prepare asparagus. I'm Sue Dodin sharing good food for good life 365