Wowie wow, it’s been a while!  Sorry for the delay in posting, but don’t worry, I still made it in time to celebrate spring veggies!  As you’ve probably surmised from its frequent appearance as a side dish in my posts, the bf and I are biiiig asparagus fans.  So when I saw that 3lb bag of asparagus at costco I thought, done and done.  That night I whipped up a gorgeous asparagus soup that’s as delicious as it is elegant. So let’s get right to it, shall we?

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If you’ve never heard of Columbia Restaurant, it means you haven’t spent much time in Florida.  It’s a chain of about a dozen restaurants that to my knowledge is restricted to the Sunshine State.  To be perfectly honest, it’s not a very spectacular restaurant overall.  It definitely caters to the tourists and the snow birds, and as a college student, I found it severely overpriced.

So why is it worth mentioning?  Because they have a spectacular salad on their menu, called the 1905 salad, named for the year their flagship restaurant opened in Ybor City, a district in Tampa.  The 1905 salad is Columbia’s big ta-dah, because all the servers know the recipe by heart and whip it up table-side.  This should clue you in to how simple and fast you can prepare this for a weeknight dinner.  The classic is with ham, which you can swap out for turkey or shrimp.  I like the combo of ham and turkey, but rock it out to your tastes.  Oh and did I mention it was really delicious?

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