"Peter Miller makes cooking at home with dignified ingredients easy and delightful. You will laugh, be inspired, become incredibly hungry, and come away with loads of smart and useful ideas." --Renee Erickson, James Beard Award-winning chef and author of A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus Offering a detailed plan for getting dinner on the table, no matter how busy your day has been, Peter Miller reveals five brilliant ways to cook a group of indispensable ingredients. These versatile, healthy foods--a carefully curated range of vegetables, grains, legumes, pastas, and proteins--form an adaptable toolbox for making simple, delicious meals. With five tried-and-tested methods for a wide range of common ingredients at their fingertips, busy home cooks can quickly focus on how to prepare whatever is on hand and in season. Offering more than 90 recipes, plus menus, tips for giving new life to leftovers, and detailed advice on sourcing ingredients, Five Ways to Cook Asparagus shows you how to cook dinner with only one or two fresh ingredients and be confident that you will eat well.