Celebrate Spring! Celebrate all the flavors of spring with a meal set right in the garden! It's too easy with luscious spring pea soup, spiced honey ham, asparagus bundles wrapped in salty prosciutto and a creamy lemon curd with berries to finish. Bella primavera!
Gameplan Day Before Brunch:
Prepare Spring Pea Soup
Prepare Toasted Spice Rub mixture for Ham
Prepare Lemon curd for dessert
Prepare seasoned bread crumbs for asparagus bundles
Morning of Brunch:
Poach asparagus
Wrap asparagus with prosciutto and season with bread crumbs
Hour Before Dinner:
Speed Scratch Ham with Toasted Spice Rub and cook
Finish Lemon Curd desserts: put biscotti, lemon curd & berries in bowls on a tray in the fridge ready for dessert
baste ham after 30 minutes with honey
Brunch Party:
Warm soup bowls in oven for a few seconds
Reheat spring pea soup slowly do not boil and garnish
Asparagus in the oven with ham while soup is being served
Serve ham and asparagus on platter after spring pea soup
Grab dessert tray from refrigerator when its time for dessert