Wednesday dinner was cream of asparagus soup made from the throw away stems. You know the green part too woody to eat? Do discard the white part. I used an onion with the skin and a bulb of garlic also. After cooking it in chicken broth, I blenderized it all and then added some butter, milk and dill. We ate it with home made whole wheat bread and sliced ham. We have been grinding our own wheat berries and making home made bread for over 30 yrs so that is not new. Then yesterday I added ground beef and parmesan cheese to the left over asparagus soup and made it into pasta sauce. I added cooked penne pasta and the family loved it. They did not even realize it was the soup from the evening before.