Most eagerly awaited spring vegetable
OK, so spring farmers' market season has begun in the majority of the county. What veggie (or fruit) have you been most eagerly awaiting throughout the winter? When you find it, what do you make with it? For me, it's the green peas. I like them lightly sauteed in their pods.
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28 Comments:
summer tomatoes ;)
but if i have to wait, fava beans and peas.
saltcrystal at 4:05PM on 04/17/09
Raaaaaaaaaaaaamps. Mmmm. Cooked with fiddle ferns, tomato, and garlic on tossed with spaghetti.
Stufsocker at 4:16PM on 04/17/09
Asparagus. Roasted, soup, pan sauteed when I can't wait for roasted.
zucchini at 4:17PM on 04/17/09
Asparagus!
Embackus at 4:17PM on 04/17/09
Rhubarb. Mmmm. I just dip the cut end in a little cinnamon and sugar and chomp on it raw, but it's also great in a sauce with pork chops, or in strawberry-rhubarb pie.
Tally at 4:30PM on 04/17/09
I was looking forward to asparagus, but honestly, I think I'm sick of it already! We have been eating a ton of asparagus lately. Perhaps, I'll give myself a break.
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Chew on That at 4:52PM on 04/17/09
asparagus.
grilled.
tomorrow.
z911empire at 5:15PM on 04/17/09
Asparagus and peas!
dhorst at 5:17PM on 04/17/09
tomatoes, asparagus, peas,
Italiancupcake at 5:36PM on 04/17/09
apricots and tomatoes
korovka at 5:45PM on 04/17/09
Big fat juicy tomatoes!
gourmetgal at 6:13PM on 04/17/09
Rhubarb and peas.
Strawberries if you count fruit.
sadiepix at 6:29PM on 04/17/09
@sadiepix--my mom has been eagerly checking her rhubarb plants. She can't wait to make a pie for her mother who is in a nursing home and has always loved rhubarb.
dhorst at 6:37PM on 04/17/09
Fresh corn on the cob.
pjracz10 at 7:05PM on 04/17/09
Asparagus!!!! Just steamed with a little salt (a very little).
Traveller at 8:36PM on 04/17/09
sugar snap peas and asparagus
kathyvegas at 8:51PM on 04/17/09
Maybe I'm weird, but I love sweet spring radishes braised in butter, or roasted with olive oil and honey. Nothing compares, however, to fresh strawberries, so ripe they barely survive the trip home.
Nicholas H at 10:06PM on 04/17/09
It ain't peas. I hate peas and chefs seem to need to put them in EVERYTHING right now. These are the little round ones, not sugar snap peas which I LOVE.
Asparagus and baby artichokes would be what I most anticipate.
As for summer, I await blueberries (my favorite fruit), real, ripe peaches and strawberries from nearby Plant City Florida that are ripe all the way through. I'll eat watermelon because it's there but it's not something that makes my heart go pitter patter.
therealchiffonade at 10:13PM on 04/17/09
Peaches and pears that aren't HARD. What I'm actually waiting for is watermelon. Delicious, juicy watermelon!!!!
sweethunibabi at 11:53PM on 04/17/09
Asparagus! I also can't wait for wild strawberry season (not to mention marionberries, blueberries, blackberries...).
perfunctory at 11:59PM on 04/17/09
OMG, I forgot about the watermelon! Juicy Black Diamond watermelon with salt, mmmm.
gourmetgal at 2:23AM on 04/18/09
mangoes!!!!
MadelynRodriguez at 3:17AM on 04/18/09
A lot of the answers I'm reading don't seem to fit the title,"...spring vegetable..." That said, I'm casting my vote with the asparagus crowd and I'm easy to please with simply steamed and some clarified butter. Fresh peas eaten right out of the pod as soon after picking as possible, I could spend hours standing between the rows.
Now, I haven't seen anything listed here that isn't on my long awaited list now that the sun is shining. @gourmetgal, you've made my day. There is nothing else that I do that stirs up so much controversy and scorn than when I break out the salt shaker around a ripe watermelon. Now I have strength to face another season; knowing you're out there doing the same!
czken at 3:17PM on 04/18/09
Corn on the cob hands down..absolutely dying for it!
sammie at 9:57AM on 04/21/09
Now that I've written that I suppose corn on the cob is really a summer veg...sorry.
sammie at 9:58AM on 04/21/09
anything and everything that is grown! love nature's supermarket! the garden, just go out and pick your dinner.....
pooch at 10:02AM on 04/21/09
Now: asparagus, rhubarb, and morel mushrooms
Summer: tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes! watermelon
POAndrea at 5:06PM on 04/21/09
I can't WAIT for fresh tomatoes.
PS FDA: Hold the salmonella this time please....
hungrychristel at 5:39PM on 04/21/09