A walk in our woods today very pleasantly revealed that these ramps… which we dug up from friends’ woods last spring, which is overrun with them, and attempted to transplant to our woods…have successfully made it through this relentless winter and have become these ramps… having successfully taken root and are now growing for us… Continue reading happyrampmonday
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Market Watch: Watermelon Radish
At the Union Square Greenmarket, this past Saturday in Manhattan, I came across giant, stunning Watermelon Radishes. A relative of the Daikon, it is also called Chinese Red Meat, Beauty Heart, and Rose Heart. This is one of the most mild radishes (which, incidentally was the one food I wouldn’t touch as a child),… Continue reading Market Watch: Watermelon Radish
Spicy-Tart Pickled Ramp Recipe
This past weekend friends who live near us upstate, on an area overrun with ramps, graciously invited us over for our second annual swap of all-we-can-pick ramps for a pick-up truck full of our “like gold” sheep manure for their garden. (So very cutting-edge-hipster-locavore. Then again, poop for weeds…) After a very muddy morning,… Continue reading Spicy-Tart Pickled Ramp Recipe