Good morning. Thanks for the asparagus recipe, Doug. I read it after supper and we made it for lunch the next day. Yum!!! We have planted asparagus a couple of times and now have to give it away (about 10# to church Wed eve). We find many recipes, book or net, but most are with pretty heavy sauces and only accompany a meal. More recipes, please. Same stream, different horse: I down-loaded some back files of the digest last night, and found that part of them came out with heavy black lines running along the line of text, splitting the characters, like -------- right over the letters. One was # 120, 1996. Can there be more thing I don't know about computers? Any suggestions? I got a care package from JC the Elder (no corporate relationship, only tenuous familial). I apparently made a bad mistake in my sampling procedure and am now waiting patiently for the second package, the one with the flame retardant suit and fire extinguisher -- whoo! Tanks again, Doug. Warm regards to you and all of you. JC the Other