The depths of my love for Ritchey on Thanksgiving.

Oh Asparagus dish, oh how you will not let me escape you. Below you will get a step by step walk thru of my experience with Ritchey's only request for thanksgiving, asparagus dish. I know what you are saying right now, oh I love asparagus! Oh, and so do I. But I really don't think the nasty things I dumped out of the cans can really be called asparagus. They certainly didn't smell like asparagus, more like stale vomit, (I literally had to plug my nose) and they didn't feel like asparagus, but maybe more like a limp wet sock. oh wait that is what they smelt like too. Anyhoo. I'm not even going to go into the rest of the recipe cuz you will see it below. But I will say, this is a Cable family must have, they eat it by the panful at their holiday traditions, Donna (who married my brother in law) and I have both been initiated in the asparagus dish club. Even more mortifying was that I had to bring this to someone's house I had never been to before. But surprisingly many of them enjoyed it, that made Ritchey feel so much better, after the grief I gave him all day. So here you go, feast your eyes on this. And just so you don't go to bed with this as your last image I left you with my family's time honored recipe. Brown sugar and butter in one of the pictures, now that is heavenly. Happy late Thanksgiving. I hope everyone enjoys all the family traditions throughout the holidays, even the not so enjoyable ones like this.

 The hard boiled eggs really add the delicious aroma of the canned asparagus.

 What would a thanksgiving dish be without cream soups.

 I deviate a little from Janet's velveeta and went with sharp cheddar. I literally could not bring myself to cover anything with velveeta.

 Just when you hoped or thought it was over, the final touch, breadcrumbs (oh no, he wouldn't let me), rather SALTINES!!

 Look at that layered perfection.

 Now this is another story. Anything with brown sugar and butter can't go wrong. This is my mom's candied yam's recipe. And no, there are no marshmallows on this.

Here's to family recipes, the good and the bad!