Main Ingredients:

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Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

3 oz Cream cheese; softened 1 ds Pepper or cayenne
2 ts Lemon juice 1 c Crab meat, flaked
1 tb Minced chives 25 Fresh asparagus spears
1 ts Minced fresh dill or mint 25 Tulip petals
-(Optional)

In a medium bowl, beat cheese with lemon juice, herbs, and pepper;
stir in crab.

Break tough ends off asparagus. Blanch in 1 inch of boiling water in
a large skillet with a lid, or steam standing upright in a couple of
inches of water in a tall, narrow pot, until crisp-tender, 2 to 5
minutes, depending on thickness of stems. Plunge into an ice-water
bath for 1 minute; then pat dry. Trim asparagus to abut 5 inches;
from the trimmings, cut as many 1/4-inch rounds as you have tulip
petals. Save extra ends for salads.

Fill each tulip petal with about 1/2 a rounded teaspoon of crab
mixture and garnish with an asparagus round. (If your petals are
large and asparagus thin, you can use 3 rounds to garnish each filled
petal.) Arrange asparagus in a fan on a serving platter and place
tulip petals alternately (or create your own pattern).

Source: Cooking from the Garden - by Rosalind Creasy ISBN:
0-87156-731-8 Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

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