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When you can find fat white asparagus in stores, buy as much as you can fit in your basket and make this recipe ASAP.

A mandoline, V-slicer, or other flat slicer-type tool with a sharp blade makes easy work of slicing the celery stalks thinly.

A bright, vegetable medley spiked with zesty herbs and cornmeal okra. 

This red beans and rice recipe contains bacon, but you can easily omit if you want to make it vegetarian.