Asparagus Omelette and a Little Soup

This recipe is excellent when made with cultivated asparagus but originally took advantage of asperges sauvages from the hedgerow. You can find these by searching the garrigue in late March, and you see many parties of people setting out to do just that. But the simplest thing is to head for the market and buy them in bunches. Two stalls were selling them at Narbonne market last time I was there in the spring. Some cooks think cooking wild asparagus takes away from its charact