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Posts tagged “ramps”

Recipe: Quick Pasta with Dried Morels and Fresh Ramps

Spring is progressing, and the season for early spring foraged treats like morels and ramps will be over soon. So eat them while you can still find them! This pasta takes these two spring delicacies a...

Favorite Spring Cocktail: Gibsons - with Ramps!
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Take a Martini, that sublime mixture of cool, crisp gin and dry vermouth, and garnish it with a pickled onion instead of a green olive. Now you have a Gibson. But what if that delicately savory, cru...

What To Do With Ramps

Each year in April, those of us here in the Northeast kick off the local and seasonal eating brouhaha with a little chat about ramps. If you live in the west or the south and have been nibbling on str...

Good Food Picks for Springtime

Springtime is here! Finally, we can put away the cold of winter and welcome in the sun and fresh air. This is the time of the year for things like fiddlehead ferns, ramps, tender peas and shoots, an...

Recipe Review: Spaghetti with Ramps (Plus Sausage)

Last Friday we mentioned that this Spaghetti with Ramps recipe from Mario Batali looked like our kind of weekend eating. So, we made it — with a few (delicious) changes......

Seasonal Cooking: Spaghetti with Ramps

We've written about pickling them, we've sautéed them with salmon, and we've shown up late at the farmer's market and missed them... Are you tired of hearing about ramps? Well, their season i...

Good Eats: A Recipe for Pickled Ramps

From our friends over at Serious Eats, here's one more way to use (and preserve) those deliciously wild spring ramps. Check out their recipe for ramps pickled with coriander, fennel seed, mustard and ...

What Time Do You Get to the Farmer's Market?

The early bird gets the ramps. We tried to get to the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket early on Saturday, but we didn't make it there until 11 a.m. We asked our friend at the Maxwell's Farms stand what...

Recipe: Pecan Crusted Salmon with Sautéed Ramps and Purple Potatoes

With those glorious spring ramps in hand, we wanted to make something special. We thought about simply sautéing them, and making a ramp pseudo-carbonara with pasta, bacon, the ramps and an egg, or ma...

NYC Greenmarket Report: Ramps and Asparagus!

It's finally actually spring: ramps are in season. Strolling through Saturday's Greenmarket, we were surprised but elated to see them. This wild member of the lily family (which also includes onions, ...

New York in Season: Lucy's Greenmarket Report

In the winter, we don't go to the greenmarket that often. Instead, we mostly just sigh as we look at the farmer's market reports from California, and occasionally stop by for some hardy root vegetable...