Tag Archives: ramps

Foraging for Ramps

Some photos from a ramps foraging hike with members of my food sustainability discussion group.

Ramp Compound Butter

Compound butter is a snap to make, and is a most excellent way to preserve the fleeting flavor of those robust spring greens, the wild leeks known as ramps.

Pizza with Ramp Pesto, and More

Ramps usually taste so mild in final dishes that the essential rampiness of them is completely obscured — that is, I assume there’s a rampiness I’m just not tasting, otherwise what’s the big deal? Here’s the big deal: Don’t cook ramps too much.

Linguine Rigate with Ramps and Asparagus

This is the kind of quick and dirty recipe that can take a lot of fiddling around, so if you don’t have what’s here, play with similar ingredients and see what you come up with.

Ramps (Wild Leeks)

Part of what’s so great about keeping a blog is the visual and written record it keeps for you. It stands in well for a crappy memory — which is exactly what I have. I’d posted a handful of entries about a year ago, in a Plate to Plate test run, and it was one [...]