I have to be honest. I have enough material to blog every day for the next month. What I don’t have is time to blog and cook. So my choices are stop cooking or only blog the very best of what I cook. That being said, this is without a doubt one of the best recipes I’ve made all month! I apologize that not everyone can get ramps. If you can’t get them, use green onions or spring onions or baby leeks.

This recipe was in Food and Wine April 2008. The original recipe was by Tony Mantuano, who wrote my favorite Wine Bar Food and owns Spiaggia’s in Chicago. I fiddled around with it a little. I didn’t have any mozzarella and I don’t really like it on pizza anyway. I had really good, really fresh ricotta cheese. I had ramps, of course, because in my last post I told you that I mail-ordered them. I ordered 3 lbs of ramps. Who knew how many ramps that really was? And then I also bought Vidalia spring onions. So I will be in oniony goodness for days yet to come.

And don’t worry, I’m not going to stop cooking.

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I grew up in New England, and have only lived anywhere else for about 5 years. You would think I would have eaten ramps before in my life. Especially at Girl Scout camp, where I tried fiddleheads a few times. But no, I wait until I move to Florida, where they don’t grow, to decide I would like to try them. Of course, for a long, long time, I did not eat leeks, onions, scallions, any of those things. Thank God my tastes have changed.

So, anyway, it’s ramp season, but they do not grow in Miami. So, I mail-ordered some from Earthy Delights. I’m sorry, I know it wasn’t very locavore of me. But they are healthy! They have vitamins C and A, iron, fiber, and all those nice anti-cancer sulfur compounds.

This month’s Bon Appétit had some great recipes. I found a few other great recipes, and I made one up – Gnudi with Tomato, Pea, and Ramp Sauce. So I thought I would share them with you.

Ramps and Buttermilk Biscuits with Cracked Coriander

Ramp and Sausage Risotto

Scrambled Eggs with Ramps, Morels, and Asparagus

Seared Salmon with Linguine and Ramp Pesto

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