Each year, we are excited anew to see the first ramps, fiddlehead ferns, and morel mushrooms arrive in the warehouse. These green and fragrant products are definite signs that spring is here. Our chef clients clamor to be the first to put these foraged delights on the menu. After the supply steadies, our home cooks can expect ramps, fiddlehead…
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You’ll Want to Make this Easy Springtime Omelette
This omelette recipe is a celebration of our favorite flavors of spring: earthy morels and pungent ramps. Foraged in the wild, these foods bring a taste of the forest to your table. Garlicky ramps are available for a limited time only, so enjoy them while you can. Read on for the perfect omelette recipe.
How to Best Enjoy Your Springtime Farmers Market Haul
Are you enjoying the first greens from the farmers market? Fresh ramps with dirt still clinging to their roots, coiled garlic scapes and crisp fava beans are all signs that spring is here. Depending on your location, some of these early seasonal greens will be available now – or soon! Read on for the perfect proteins to make your farmers market haul into a meal.
Make This Now: The Simple Pesto We’re Putting on Everything
This recipe has an expiration date because the key ingredient is a fleeting seasonal green. Ramps, also called wild leeks or spring onion, are one of the first woodland plants of spring. Wild foraged (there are no ramp farms) and super pungent, these seasonal edibles inspire a kind of frenzy among food lovers. Try our…
Make it Now! Ramp Butter Recipe
Compound butters are simple to make and pack a lot of flavor. Especially true of our ramp compound butter, which is one of our favorite ways to preserve the fresh flavor of spring ramps all year long. This is the time – and it’s a brief moment – when you can get fresh wild ramps to make…
5 Ramp Recipes to Try Now
Ramp season is so brief – late March to sometime in May – that we really mean it when we say “now.” Ramps are wild onions native to North America, and are sometimes known as spring onions, wild leeks or wild garlic. These fragrant, garlicky sheaves of green are a sign that spring has arrived….
Raising a Stink Over Ramps
The ramp is a wild onion native to North America, and is sometimes called spring onion, wild leek or wild garlic. It is known by the Latin name Allium tricoccum. Long appreciated by country folk and eaten as a spring tonic, the ramp has in recent years taken on a mantle of cult status among…
Happy Spring! Let’s Eat
Yesterday – as of 6:28 AM – was the first official day of spring. Each year, we get so excited to see the first ramps, fiddlehead ferns and morel mushrooms arrive in the warehouse. These green and fragrant products are definite signs that spring is here. This week, the few cases to arrive have all…
Signs of Spring: Ramps
We are sure that spring is here when the ramps arrive. We’ve had them for a little while now, in limited quantities, and they have been selling out quickly to our chef clients. These fragrant wild leeks are the hottest thing on spring menus. Among the very first green to appear in the dead woods,…