
No, these were not delicious. They taste like burned popcorn that's fallen on the floor.
I'm trying to learn how to cook vegetables besides the way I learned in the south: 1 part vegetable to 4 parts butter, add salt to taste. Here's a list of don'ts when it comes to asparagus.
1. Don't use 3 tablespoons of sesame oil. Yes, sesame oil smells amazing and maybe you once saw sesame seeds on some asparagus in a fancy restaurant. Truth: it smells like burned popcorn when heated to whatever temperature 6 means on your electric stove.
2. Believe them when they print "suitable for low-medium heat" on the sesame oil bottle. Even if you are a scientist and you think you can do what you want.
3. Wash those little pointy brushy things at the top of asparagus. Don't just run it under the tap and call it good. You actually have to kinda work the water in there. Otherwise you will take a bite and find an unpleasant feeling in your mouth like when you are hungry at the beach and you eat something you know got sand in it but you think maybe it's not so bad so you eat it anyway and instantly regret it.
4. If some of it falls on the floor and the dog won't even go for it, not even for a cursory sniff, proceed directly to garbage. Don't put it on a plate. Don't sit it in front of yourself like maybe the rest of the asparagus will taste like sesame and not have dirt all in it.
Hopefully this helps.











