Asparagus Salad with Japanese Dressing

Young asparagus is sweet and tender, and best of all, widely available and on sale at various grocers around this time of year.  It’s delicate, intensely green (no filter needed), and crisp – everything you want in a salad veggie. This salad is easy enough – just blanch and shock the asparagus.  It’s the dressing…

Smoked turkey soup

Maybe you have some leftover turkey in your freezer from last Thanksgiving.  In my case, we had a smoked turkey (just the drumsticks, since we’re not huge white meat fans) but there were so many other good things to eat that we didn’t finish the “main course”.  Nothing’s easier than just throwing the leftovers into…