{"id":18722,"date":"2016-06-25T22:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T20:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2016-06-26T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T22:32:52","slug":"asparagus-and-streaky-bacon-rolls-or-the-quickest-asparagus-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/?p=18722","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus and Streaky Bacon Rolls, or the Quickest Asparagus Dish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"asparagus_bacon_rollsp\"After a particularly cold spring, we’re having\u00a0 impossibly\u00a0hot days (28\u00b0C at 9 pm is not my favourite weather\u00a0in the city…), so my body and mind have had\u00a0a thermal shock. As a result I’ve been\u00a0utterly lazy in the kitchen. The\u00a0asparagus bought with the intention to make\u00a0chawan mushi (Japanese steamed savoury custard)<\/a>\u00a0ended up in these simple\u00a0rolls\u00a0because suddenly chawan mushi (which otherwise I prepare practically every second week) seemed\u00a0too messy, too long, too tiresome… I know they are far from being original, but I thought it’d be a good idea to remind my dear readers of such a\u00a0quick and easy\u00a0asparagus treat many of us tend to forget about (at least I do).<\/p>\n

The rolls\u00a0are perfect\u00a0as they are, served with rice or bread or on their\u00a0own, as a snack, but since I always try to smuggle an egg into every asparagus meal, here is the same bowl with\u00a0a fried egg (the egg is not the best looking, but it was another quick shot with my camera because I was simply too hungry\u00a0and exhausted after 15 minutes spent in my sauna-like kitchen):<\/p>\n

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(If you are curious about the ugly-looking powdery stuff on the rice, it’s my homemade spicy\u00a0furikake with prune<\/a>\u00a0(a Japanese rice topping).<\/p>\n

TIPS: I hate mushy green asparagus, so here it’s\u00a0practically half-raw and very crunchy, but feel free to precook it if you like it soft.<\/p>\n

Preparation: about 15-20 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n

Ingredients (serves one):<\/em><\/p>\n

8\u00a0thin (I prefer about 5 mm\/ about 1\/5 in thick in the middle) green asparagus spears, the lower tough 1\/4th or 1\/3th discarded (the thinnest the spear, the smeller the tough discardable part)<\/em><\/p>\n

4 super thin (transparent, cut thinly like cured ham) slices of smoked streaky bacon<\/em><\/p>\n

Cut the asparagus spears into pieces a bit longer than\u00a0the bacon’s width.<\/p>\n

Divide the pieces into four groups (make sure you have at least one asparagus top in every group, since it’s the most delicious part).<\/p>\n

Roll tightly into the streaky bacon and stir-fry on medium heat until crisp, starting with the sealed part of the rolls and then turning once (you can also grill the rolls).<\/p>\n

Since my asparagus is raw, I like to cover the rolls during the first half of the frying process (thus they cook a bit, but not too much).<\/p>\n

Serve with rice or as a snack with toothpicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a particularly cold spring, we’re having\u00a0 impossibly\u00a0hot days (28\u00b0C at 9 pm is not my favourite weather\u00a0in the city…), so my body and mind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[184,125,85,205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}