Right after Jake was born, a bunch of amazing friends brought us food for a few weeks to lighten our load. And thank goodness! Otherwise I am not sure we would have eaten anything except cereal, cereal, cereal.
It was a great opportunity to try new things! One of my new dishes was this side salad, full of bright colors and flavors. The best thing about this asparagus and green bean salad was that it brought me and Dave together.
You see, I have never really been a fan of green beans (gasp!). Of course, I will eat them when pressed (and, I admit a certain sense of relief that most Southerners prepare their green beans with bacon or ham, giving me an easy out…), but I hardly ever go out of my way to track them down.
Dave, on the other hand, hates asparagus. I’m still reeling from that pronouncement, given that it’s one of my favorite vegetables of all time.
So, flash back to our first respective bites of this salad, in which I thought, “Here are some green beans I can get behind!” and Dave thought, “I could eat asparagus more regularly if it tastes like this!”
And history was made. (Also, I recently made this for a friend who hates tomatoes with much success…so I’m pretty sure this salad is magical.)
Let’s make some veggies and evangelize more green bean or asparagus skeptics!
