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A stainless steel rack that is built to hold asparagus so it can be steamed vertically with the stems standing in several inches of water when cooking.

A type of cookware designed for steaming asparagus. The asparagus steamer consists of a long narrow wire basket, a steaming pot, and a lid.

A vegetable with long, tender shoots that may be white, purple or green in color, all belonging to a plant that is a member of the lily family.

A cream-based soup that is made with bits of asparagus for texture and flavoring. Similar to many other cream soups, Cream of Asparagus can be served as a lunch or dinner soup or it can be added to casseroles to create a savory sauce.

A handy kitchen tool that is used to easily cut and peel the tough layer of outer skin away from the tender meat within the asparagus stalk.

A salad green that grows with long thin stems containing ragged or serrated green leaves similar to dandelion greens.

A cooking green that is a celtuce variety of garden lettuce grown for its thick edible stem instead of the leaf, which is thin and bitter tasting.

1. A Mexican tortilla is a soft, thin and flat unleavened round bread. They are made from corn or wheat flour and baked on a griddle called a comal.

Traditionally, this food item referred to fresh or pickled vegetables that were prepared by thinly slicing them into strips and stick shapes to be served as an hors d'oeuvre.

A portion of meat, which can also include a fillet of fish, taken from the most tender part of the animal and formed into a round steak to be prepared.

A root vegetable grown for the leaves that are used as cooking greens (beet greens) and the firm textured bulbous root, which is served as a cooked vegetable.