Favorite flavors of spring?

Deb, I've never bought them in Louisville - although I imagine Creation imports a bushel or two during April. I usually just time my trip home to visit Daddy so that I can bring a bushel back with me - in years past I've sold them for a slight profit to Jack Fry's, Limestone, etc - to help pay for my gas.

In WV the ONLY way they're cooked is outside, in bacon grease with onions, in a cast-iron vessel.

[Robin Garr]

What do you do with your ramps? ( I've only used them once) Do they usually have them at the farmer's markets or are they are Creation Gardens find?

Deb, at least a couple of the Bardstown Road market shops have ramps in season - what's the name of the big, foo-foo greens place that's backed up to Bardstown Road a little closer to the north end?

It's a short season, though, so you need to move fast when you see them. If you really want them. Maybe I'm just a city boy, but they've never really knocked my socks off.

What do you do with your ramps? ( I've only used them once) Do they usually have them at the farmer's markets or are they are Creation Gardens find?

Deb, at least a couple of the Bardstown Road market shops have ramps in season - what's the name of the big, foo-foo greens place that's backed up to Bardstown Road a little closer to the north end?

It's a short season, though, so you need to move fast when you see them. If you really want them. Maybe I'm just a city boy, but they've never really knocked my socks off.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the "foo-foo" greens place - but that did make me laugh . Is that where Little Rabbit Foo-Foo gets his dinner?

I'm assuming you mean a place with lots of expensive greens at the north end of the Bardstown farmers market?

I definitely love both leeks and garlic, so I'm intrigued to try cooking with them. Found a couple of recipes on epicurious.com that sound promising, so I may have to try them at least once. And the hunt is part of the fun...
Thanks,

Deb

RAMPS![/quote]

Agreed. I sneak them into EVERYTHING!

Backyard asparagus is hard to beat, too.

I could use some ramps right about now!

Blue gill.

Peanuts and beer at Louisville Slugger Field and a hot dog at the turn of any golf course

Morel, asparagus, young garlic, baby greens, fiddlehead fern.

Mark,

Perhaps it is more a flavor of "summer"...but we have come to enjoy the "spring" corn on the cob that has become more common in the grocery stores over the past couple of years. I have NO idea where this stuff comes from but it seems to store/ship well and it serves to whet the appetite for the (local) harvest that is yet to come.

we have come to enjoy the "spring" corn on the cob that has become more common in the grocery stores over the past couple of years. I have NO idea where this stuff comes from but it seems to store/ship well

The picking starts in South America then moves to Mexico. Florida after that with the picking moving north state by state till its harvest time here. From what I understand is that California corn never really leaves that state.

we have come to enjoy the "spring" corn on the cob that has become more common in the grocery stores over the past couple of years. I have NO idea where this stuff comes from but it seems to store/ship well

The picking starts in South America then moves to Mexico. Florida after that with the picking moving north state by state till its harvest time here. From what I understand is that California corn never really leaves that state.

John,

My experience is that there is are a lot of things in California that (should) never leave California. Sorry...was that my "outside" voice

Steve,

And here I thought I liked you...

( I'm a California native)


Deb

Steve,

And here I thought I liked you...

( I'm a California native)


Deb

I'm sorry Deb <sniff>...Really I am. I should have mentioned in my original response that I have a former mother in law and a couple of former no good brothers in laws who moved from California. There was a time in my life when I WISHED they would have never left

No harm intended.

Okay, well maybe I'll forgive you just this once....

Deb