Anyone Here a Fan of "Ramps" in Spring?

[andy10917]

(please skip the off-ramp and on-ramp jokes)

Does anyone else here spend any time hunting for "Ramps" in the woods in the Spring?? My CIA-trained chef son showed up at the house this evening with lbs of Ramps he'd found in the woods (took away sustainable quantities). God, they're a delicious gift of early Spring.

[HoosierLawnGnome]

Mushrooms???

Morels are the prize here. They like to grow along the ridge top of my timberland but get harvested pretty quickly by mushroom hunters.

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[dfw_pilot]

I've been told that garlic/onion breath doesn't hold a candle to ramp breath. Are they really that strong?

[andy10917]

No. But they are so addictive that you eat a ton.

[GaryCinChicago]

Morels are the prize here.

Yeah! .... right?
He's hunting for wild leek.


Seen this at my local store last week. Yellows and greys.
(Leeks were 79 cents a pound)

[andy10917]

Only a guy that has never tasted Ramps would ever compare them to store-bought Leeks. Pretty ease to spot the folks like that...

[McLovin]

Late to the party as usual but ramps are festival food in southeast Tennessee (skip the ramp tramp jokes please). My dad was the ranger (1960 - 1965) where this festival is held, as a kid I remember him bringing home ramps and Mom making him cook them outside because she could not stand the smell.

http://ramptrampfestival.com/

[hokster]

A large chunk of our property is a forest. This discussion about ramps has me thinking about sowing some seeds in the fall...