{"id":1207,"date":"2010-05-18T07:49:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T07:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2010-05-18T07:49:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T07:49:59","slug":"recipe-boiled-duck-egg-with-asparagus-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/05\/18\/recipe-boiled-duck-egg-with-asparagus-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe | Boiled duck egg with asparagus soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2368.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1208\" title=\"Boiled duck egg with asparagus soldiers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2368.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2368.jpg 2592w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2368-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2368-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Have we all had enough of asparagus yet? I certainly haven&#8217;t. For me it&#8217;s the king of spring vegetables, transformer of the banal into the beatific. Throw a duck egg into the mix and you have either a deeply indulgent lunch or a simple dinner party starter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Serves 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">1 duck egg<br \/>\nA handful of asparagus, trimmed and washed<br \/>\nSalt and pepper<br \/>\nA little melted butter (optional)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8211; Bring two pans of water to the boil. To the first carefully add the duck egg and simmer for 5 minutes. (If using a hen&#8217;s egg boil for 3-4).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">&#8211; After the egg has been simmering for 2 minutes add the asparagus to the other pan along with a pinch of salt. Simmer for 3-4 minutes, removing the duck egg when appropriate. Drain the asparagus and serve immediately, with a few twists of pepper and a pinch of sea salt and, if feeling particularly self-indulgent, a pot of melted butter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1209\" title=\"Boiled duck egg with asparagus soldiers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2371.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2371.jpg 3888w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2371-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/img_2371-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"geo-post-1207\" class=\"geo geo-post\" style=\"display: none\"><span class=\"latitude\">0<\/span><span class=\"longitude\">0<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have we all had enough of asparagus yet? I certainly haven&#8217;t. For me it&#8217;s the king of spring vegetables, transformer of the banal into the beatific. Throw a duck egg into the mix and you have either a deeply indulgent lunch or a simple dinner party starter. Serves 1 1 duck egg A handful of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39,87,237,641],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-asparagus","tag-boiled-duck-egg","tag-dinner-party-starter","tag-quick-lunch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zdji-jt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}