Ramp Supper

[rugerman1]

white meal cornbread
brown&white beans,cooked twice
Beaver County maple syrup glazed ham
fried bacon,grease used to fry taters in
fried taters,slightly burnt
after frying the taters 95%,mix in ramps and let them wilt
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q299/sawrm1/April212009.jpg

http://www.kingofstink.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q299/sawrm1/jitcrunch.jpg

[rugerman1]

A pre-cooked view of ramps
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q299/sawrm1/April192009002.jpg
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q299/sawrm1/April192009001.jpg

[Ole]

Except for the wide leaves, those look similar to green onions when raw.

Are they similar in flavor?

[rugerman1]

Ramps taste and smell like the most pungent garlic/onion flavor you can imagine. Some people claim your breath will smell for days afterwards. Since I'm the one eating them,I don't smell a thing! :mrgreen:

[jh45gun]

LOL some one was talking about them the other day at an other forum to us Yankees they are just wild leeks as thats what they are. Good stuff I agree I got to go out and get some soon they come out a bit later here in WI.

[Trey45]

they are just wild leeks as thats what they are.


That's like saying the Mona Lisa is JUST a painting!

[TCLouis]

I saw RAMPS and thought it had to be a Richochet posting. Ramps are an E. TN thing, not even sure if we have them in Middle TN.

[stubshaft]

Now that some good eats!

[jh45gun]

That's like saying the Mona Lisa is JUST a painting!

Not saying they are bad I like them but whats with this Ramp stuff? They are a wild leek so who come up with calling them ramps and why?

[leadeye]

Looks like a great meal. Where do you find them?

[Trey45]

They are a wild leek so who come up with calling them ramps and why?


Ramp, genus Allium tricoccum

Leek, genus Allium porrum

Not quite the same, close cousins tho.

They belong to the large lily family, containing about 325 species, and are close relatives of the onion, garlic, shallot and chives. Their genus, Allium, is Latin for garlic.


Now ya know the why's and where-for's.

[rugerman1]

Looks like a great meal. Where do you find them?

Got them dowm in West Virginia close to where my parents were raised.Kevin,I'd tell you exactly where,but my aunts and uncles would kilt me! :mrgreen:

[jh45gun]

Ramp, genus Allium tricoccum

Leek, genus Allium porrum

Not quite the same, close cousins tho.

They belong to the large lily family, containing about 325 species, and are close relatives of the onion, garlic, shallot and chives. Their genus, Allium, is Latin for garlic.


Now ya know the why's and where-for's.

Thanks

[Four Fingers of Death]

We get spring onions/schallots, which taste great, but make me burp a bit. I can't resist them, have them chopped into my scrambled eggs every morning.

My late wife and I had a deal when we went out, if one had a garlic dish, we both did, or at least ate some of the garlic dish. That way we couldn't smell the garlic breath.

It's Autumn here at the moment, I'm starting to plan my spring garden, I'll try and get some of those, they sound good.

Four Fingers.

PS, in the gaol (jail) system here we call a search 'a ramp' for example, 'the mong%$@$ ramped my cell!' :)

[BD]

Ramps are delicious! And there's nothing better than feeding them to folks who've never had them before.

The Cheat River Canyon and Big Sandy Valley in West by God Virginny are full of them this time of year. I first tried them at an Albright, WV fire hall supper back in 1978 or so. Nobody told me "the rest of the story" until a couple of days later.

BD

[geezer56]

The largest (I believe) ramp festival is held here in westen NC in May. I've heard, and truly believe, that ramps are a cross between an an onion and a skunk! I love them, but they keep folks away from you for at least 3 days after you eat them. Most folks use them as a sort of spring tonic. Just purges the system and gets you ready to eat summer food after a long hard winter.

[Lee]

RM1, OK I'll bite. I was born and raised in Beaver County.(a while back)
I've never heard of Beaver County maple syrup glazed ham.
I have been referred to and characterized as a "cake-eater" though.
Actually from Brighton Township. Except for collecting our tax monies, the town of Beaver never had much use for us.
(Except Windy Ghoul, where all the rich folk lived.........

[rugerman1]

Lee,
Take this syrup and glaze a ham you get at Shop 'n Save and you have an official "Beaver County Maple Syrup glazed ham! :mrgreen:
32nd Annual Beaver County Maple Syrup Festival (http://www.beavercountyconservationdistrict.org/sub.asp?page=%7B8187C377-E472-47D2-82B2-034E5AF24625%7D&subpage=%7BCC6C0CC2-3CE5-43CB-9395-FD5FB3375D2F%7D)
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q299/sawrm1/2008maplefestival9.jpg

[Four Fingers of Death]

Couldn't find them listed with the seed companies I use (seed savers networks, no hybrid stuff for me thanks.).

Wouldn't mind getting my hands on some seeds. I reckon after a meal with those and some home made beers, I'd be giggling like a school girl and lighting farts with the best of them :D

Four Fingers.

[stocker]

Mick: Think they grow wild so probably no seed or bulbstock (whichever would apply)available. Nice to see the pics of them. Remember reading about ramps in the Foxfire books maybe and wondered just what they looked like and if they were similar to our wild onions. A little bit but ours taste a bit on the mild side.

[Lee]

32nd Annual !!!!!! That explains why I haven't heard of it. I was gone 10 years before it became an event.

Ramps. I'm still looking to find some. No luck so far, but I know where there's a lot of skunk cabbage.........

[Sprue]

WV Ramp Capitol

http://www.wchstv.com/traveling/2007/twv070419.shtml

[TCLouis]

Ramps required growth habitat.

Colony or individual plants scattered about?

Any sources to start a Ramp "bed"?

How about a picture of them in the wild?

Full of questions, that I am.

[madsenshooter]

MMMM, you sure made me think of home, SE Ohio (aka Upper Appalachia), haven't seen anything here in N. IN that looks anything like a ramp. Since they're one of the first edibles to come up in the spring, the Cherokee, I've read ate them as a spring tonic. The little town I am from is surrounded by acres of forest, either Wayne National Forest, or coal company land, lots and lots of ramps and few people dig them. Now you have me wanting to go home!

[BCB]

I have tried to transplant them in areas very near and similar to where the ones in the pictures are growing--very limited success and spread and propagation is extremely slow..

These pictures were taken on a piece of property I own in Western Pennsylvania. I gather a "mess" of them each year and make leek and potato soup. A delight every year...

In the pictures you also see Trilliums, Mayapple, Trout Lily, and Wild Geranium. So that might give an idea of the habitat they prefer...

BCB

[yotatrd4x4]

I didnt realize that most people who arent from the appalachian mountains as we are dont have a clue what a ramp is. The term did come from a latin word for garlic and all the people who settled in the appalachians where mostly poor and it was easy for them to live off the land so the latin word which I believe was ramson but was shortened to ramp after time. Here are a few good links to show yall outsiders what you are missing.
http://main.nc.us/yancey/Ramps/ramps_or_wild_leek.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium_tricoccum

[rugerman1]

Just talked to my uncle and made our yearly plans to meet at our secret ramp patch in the next month or so.Made some chili with ramps Saturday:
Great Nothern beans,
kidney beans
pinto beans,
homemade hot sausage links,
ground beef
a jar of home-canned tomatoes/onions/sweet peppers sauce
a dash of chili powdah
a handful of diced(frozen 2009) ramps
my secret awesome chili spice http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/32.gif

Cooked it down for 4.5 hours http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/38.gif
Made the mistake of inviting my cousin and his wife down to taste it,2 results:
Less chili for me
Marital discord for them :mrgreen:

[oneokie]

Shoulda made a bigger pot of chili.

[largom]

Sure makes me homesick for the hills of West Virginia.

[Three-Fifty-Seven]

Use to get them back in VT on a South Eastern hill kinda dampish area . . . I'd put some in a blender with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, make a paste . . . makes a great spread on toast! Freezes well too!

I had a friend who would pickle them . . .

[Four Fingers of Death]

After being alone for a couple of years, I have re-married. My new wife is a retired Chinese Doctor. She and her family eat raw garlic cloves as a side dish to most main meals. If I see her chomping into them, I try and have a couple, otherwise I couldn't handle her breath. I'm quiet fond of them now. I reckon she'd take to your ramps like a duck to water. Another couple of months till we plant those sort of things here.

[Old Goat Keeper]

Ramps = natural birth control! lol

Tom who be single

[Sprue]

Anyone make it this year ? (http://www.richwooders.com/ramp/ramps.htm)

[cattleskinner]

Mark,

Are ramps always red in the stem part between the leaves and bulb, or can they be white also? I found some in the woods that look like what you're showing but are a different color.

[BCB]

I don't believe I have ever seen any that were white from the ground to the leaves...

May be a regional thing. I don't know...

They often times grow in and around trout lilies and they may have a white stem--don' remember for sure. But the trout lily has a sort of motled leaf...

Good-luck...BCB

[223tenx]

They are available now at roadside stands in the Charleston area, maybe at the Farmer's Market in Charleston also.

[TCLouis]

wild geranium, trillium (purple, not white in middle TN, may apples, but no ramps.

Seems like I have seen leaves like the Ramp leaves tromping around the state, but don't remember where. I do remember it was like a colonial form and was unique enough to stand out.

[TCLouis]

wild geranium, trillium (purple, not white in middle TN), may apples, but no ramps.

Seems like I have seen leaves like the Ramp leaves tromping around the state, but don't remember where.
I do remember it was like a colonial form and was unique enough to stand out.

[BCB]

Unless you are in the woods at the correct time, it is easy to miss them as the leaves die back and the flower stalk appears. At that time it is near impossible to identify unless you know there were there before...

Good-luck...BCB