The Shopaholic Equestrian: Asparagus Baked with Cheese

So my mother in law is here visiting from the great state of New Jersey. She has a vacation home roughly 2 hours away, so she is down for 9 days and visiting us for a few days out of her trip. This is the first time she has seen our house, and has lot of ideas! We got a lot done around the house (more on that later).

My mother in law loves. to cook. Words cannot explain. Very rare is it that we go out when we see her. In addition, dinner prep starts around 10am. So this morning we went through my cookbooks (wedding gifts that ended up on a shelf) and found this recipe. It is from Super Suppers by Judie Byrd. Buy the book here! It was so good. Even my picky husband loved it..but probably because it was covered in cheese. :)

We ended up cutting the recipe in half and it was perfect. We made it as a side dish to this this Giada recipe from my Everyday Italian by Giada DeLaurentiis cookbook (total fellow Italian girl crush!)

So, the Asparagus Baked with Cheese....here is how you make it. Again, we cut it in half and it was more then enough.

Makes 6 servings.

Ingredients:

2 pounds fresh asparagus spears
1/2 cup melted butter
1 envelope dry onion soup mix
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Preheat oven to 350. Cut or tear the "woody" ends of the asparagus and rinse. Arrange asparagus in a baking dish, layer if ned. Combine the melted butter and onio soup mix. Drizzle over asparagus and then top with the cheese. Bake for about 10 minutes until tender and cheese is melted.

Step by step!

Here are your ingredients. It's hard to tell, but in the bowl is the melted butter.

Tear off the "woody" ends of the asparagus, and rinse. Then place in the baking dish.

Thank you to my mother in law for nicely showing us how to do this.