What to do with RAMPS
I am a vegetarian and I am dying to try ramps. I can pick them up fresh from Union Square tomorrow. What is an easy way to prepare them and show off all their goodness?
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12 Comments:
@Simon seems to be the guy to answer your questions! Let's hope he is on the website tonight. I literally had never heard of them until he posted some threads here.
bareneed at 6:59PM on 04/28/09
Ramps are fresh wild leeks and the world us your osyter with them.
Just the other day I finished an asparagus soup with the teen tops. First I made a soup base from onions, shallots, and garlic. I sweated that down till tender and added some peeled diced potatoes(Yukon gold in this case). I had some chicken stock that I made a week before and added that to cover. I simmered this all with a sachet of thyme & black peppercorns until the potatoes were tender.
Next I blanched my asparagus, chilled, an then blanched the ramp tops an chilled.
I pureed the base and dropped the green into it and pureed that cause I was hungry. It stays green for about a day that way, more if you chill the base too and then purée seperately and fold together.
Or you could make a nice ramp coulis(blanched tops puree then blended with a little olive oil and salt). Great tossed with radicchio an frissee. Or added to some cold cooked cannelini beans.
Or clean them really well and grill them and serve with Cous-cous, cured lemon and other spring veggies.
Play. Be inventive.
angrywayne at 7:52PM on 04/28/09
I just grilled them and served with a little bit of lemon--amazing.
fozziebayer at 8:08PM on 04/28/09
i love all of angrywayne's ideas. i don't think there's anything left!
as a foil to a rich risotto. roasted ramps are a great side dish.
dmarina at 2:24AM on 04/29/09
We like the bulb ends (very youg, very small) raw with buttered crusty bread to tamp the heat down a bit...
BobbieAnne at 9:58AM on 04/29/09
I refuse to humor people who don't use their own brains, or at the very least, learn how to use the search engine.
simon at 12:58PM on 04/29/09
@simon I hope that's a joke...because otherwise did you learn how to use a search engine in answer to your own question.
Why even post if you aren't trying to answer the question or at the very least if your aim is to humiliate, do it by providing so much information that a person feels dumb.
"Ramps???
Posted by simon, April 1, 2009 at 2:48 PM
I went to the U.Sq. greenmarket this morning, granted not very early, to see if I could find ramps, since everyone is saying they're here. No one had any, and they said they weren't coming in for another week or so... What's the deal? Which vendors have them? How much are they going for?
Thanks!"
(emphasis added by me)
angrywayne at 1:17PM on 04/29/09
I guess I am one of the people "who don't use their own brains" - I spent half the a.m. wondering what @fozziebayer meant when she/he said, "lemon-amazing" - I put it out of my head when I figured it was some form of lemon mayonnaise I hadn't heard of - I just read it over. "Duh!" And, oh! just if anyone gives a damn, I don't know how to use a search engine, but I really enjoy the entertainment and information I garner from this site.
bareneed at 1:28PM on 04/29/09
@angry wayne - the questions I asked can't be answered by a search engine you imbecile.
@bareneed - see the little box at the top right of this very page? The one where you can type stuff and then click a button underneath that says "search" on it? Try it, you'll like it.
Here's an example of what it can produce:
http://www.seriouseats.com/search/?cx=017529491364907105438%3Aifvire7odym&cof=FORID%3A9&q=ramps&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=search#954
simon at 3:38PM on 04/29/09
wow, ramps really seem to bring out the rage in some people.
We can't get ramps where I live so I have no idea what you do with them but it did remind of something my dad told me one. He grew up on a farm in West Virginia and went to a little one room school house. Apparently W.V. is the place to get ramps, they grow wild all over the woods but it gives you really terrible breath when you eat them and if any of the kids ate them, they were sent home from school immediately! Apparently the smell of the offender's bad breath would just permeate the school and make the teacher and other kids sick. I always thought that was a funny story.
elderberry44 at 4:53PM on 04/29/09
Funny and true, elderberry--where I grew up, a couple state lines north of WV, leek supper weekends at area churches in the spring would give Mondays off from school. We were all expected to get our leek gnoshing done and over with by the time Easter/Spring break ended so we could get down to the business of prepping for final exams without missing any more days!
BobbieAnne at 1:51PM on 04/30/09
Just had delicious pizza at Cookshop that was vegetarian. Ramps galore...never thought of putting them on a slice, but it really made the dish.
Rebgilad at 3:52PM on 05/06/09